Today on the elitist NPR show “All Things Considered,” David Brooks and E.J. Dionne agreed that Obama’s comments re working class people clinging bitterly to religion and guns because their jobs went away are going to hurt him with ordinary…
A contractor friend of mine saw a union carpenter friend the other day and asked him who he’s voting for. “Oh, I’m for the spook,” he said. Journalists aren’t supposed to declare trends without three examples, but I have to…
Today my mother in law sent me a desperate email, Obama is about to be crucified. He is losing ground, she says, this happened to Stevenson, it will always happen to someone who is smart and sensitive. Last night I…
In December 2000, when the presidential election was still up in the air, I covered the raucous protests in Washington, with crowds converging on Blair House to support Al Gore as president, and other crowds forming across the road calling…
Five years ago, Rachel Corrie sent out a group email urging Americans to look on her presence in Gaza as a reflection of the U.S. role in creating Palestinian conditions. “I recognize that as a citizen of the United States…
I’ve praised Daniel Kurtzer many times for his great book on Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, which in many ways parrots the argument of Walt and Mearsheimer that the Israel Lobby has strangled the peace process by compelling the U.S. to stick…
“J Street,” the new alternative to the Aipac lobby, says that it “represents Americans, primarily but not exclusively Jewish….” The gentile outreach is significant. As I noted a couple of months back, the Israel Policy Forum is also reaching out…
My post about Masa raised the dual-loyalty issue, and this seemed a good time to repeat myself and offer a number of instances in which the issue has come to my attention in the last year or so. Here goes:…
Haaretz reports that Bibi Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan University: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime…