Today’s WSJ has a front-page piece on casino-king Sheldon Adelson saying that the cash-strapped Republican Party is counting on him to fund a lot of races. I can’t get the whole piece online, I’m going to go out and buy…
The main argument made against The New Yorker cover is that it will foster the ignorant belief that Obama is a Muslim with shadowy connections. Chris Matthews says 12 percent of Americans believe Obama’s a Muslim. But will it actually…
The Jerusalem Post reports on an undated fundraiser thrown for Hadassah in Los Angeles by Iranian-American Jews who have a “private waterfall in the back garden”, at which Stewart Greenebaum of Baltimore warned that assimilation and intermarriage were evaporating the…
Yesterday I mentioned the fact that Dana Ammous, 23, who lives in Ramallah in Palestine, missed her best friend’s wedding in Amman last Friday because the Israelis shut down the border crossing at the Allenby Bridge, in one of those…
I love the New Yorker cover. It shows that our politics may actually be more sophisticated than we thought; also it will quickly sort out anyone with a sense of humor from anyone without one (sadly, our great future president,…
Last month I attended the AIPAC conference in Washington and saw a lot to admire in people there but found the values deeply out of step with modern America (that link is to my piece in the American Conservative). One…
Those are ads. I think I’ve finally successfully enrolled in Google adsense (after a couple of failures), and they demand top billing for their ads. My links and archives and search are all at the bottom now. Sorry. I want…
I find that I’m still annoyed by Margaret Carlson’s crack on “Hardball” the other night that Michelle Obama is elitist because she buys arugula at Whole Foods. Carlson doesn’t want a president who’s an elitist. Or America doesn’t, she says;…
Today is a great day. Everywhere around us there are signs that the old power arrangements with respect to Israel/Palestine are ending. French President Sarkozy has convened a Mediterranean union that is focusing on ending the greatest contributor to disorder:…