The worst I felt the whole campaign was over the weekend, when the conventional wisdom had it that Hillary, a rich suburban woman, had successfully remade herself as a populist, and her gas-tax holiday was going to give her momentum…
John McCain has campaigned with a Rev. Rod Parsley, who has called Islam a–well, take it from Rod: America was founded in part with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed. And I believe September 11, 2001, was a…
Today the House passed a law removing a stain that the U.S. government had imposed on the African National Congress: those who resisted the South African apartheid policy, often by military means, were terrorists. “This long-overdue bill is the direct…
Much to its credit, Commentary magazine has posted an annotated version of Efraim Karsh’s piece on 1948. I urge all hackademics (to steal Avi Shlaim’s wonderful word) to have a look at the footnotes. I’m going to.
Hillary is playing the race card, saying that whites don’t support Obama, they support her. It’s interesting to consider that Obama–whose identity has plainly evolved from black-American to simply American–has never played the male card against Hillary. Betsy Reed has…
Watching Lanny Davis spin desperately for Hillary the other night on MSNBC, hearing Howard Wolfson work the same riff on NPR this morning, I wondered if the Jewish establishment is ending almost before it began. The Clintons were the greatest…
A week back I drafted a post saying that MSNBC should take Chris Matthews off air unless he says he’s not running for Senate in ’08 then never posted it because Matthews is such a political genius that I almost…
Judicial Watch is questioning an event that John McCain had in London with the Rochschilds; the law says foreign nationals are not allowed to contribute to American campaigns. Also questioned: a concert that Elton John gave for Hillary Clinton. I…
The other day I did a post saying that Arab students at Columbia were right to turn down the offer from the mini-Israel lobby at the school, called Lionpac, to have a private meeting about Nakba week and other public…