Sarah Palin had me at hello–or when she said, My husband and I worked with our hands. I was grateful that a different set of prerequisites was being applied to public service than scoring well on the SATs or being…
Speaking of Jewish origins in western Asia, Arnaud de Borchgrave has a good piece today on “the Israel of the Caucasus,” describing the Georgia crisis as the result of a Tel Aviv-Tbilisi “axis” that the neoconservatives in the Bush administration…
My bet: Sarah Palin won’t be on the ballot come November. McCain’s message is getting killed. And though people like me love Lil Abner, the electorate is just too well-educated to want her a heartbeat away. We saw this with…
Ben Smith reports what I’ve sensed: that Jews are not going to flock to a backwoods character like Sarah Palin. He says some donors are moving to Obama. Praise the lord, Smith isn’t going in for the “Jewish voters” euphemism….
I find Gov. Palin’s announcement that 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant and will have the baby and marry a little disturbing. Not the pregnant part, or even the I’m-havin-my-baby part. The marriage part. Earlier this year I did a story…
Nakba-denying Commentary Magazine has chosen to expand and magnify its distortion of the Palestinian experience in its latest issue by printing Efraim Karsh’s response to a critical letter pointing out that Karsh elided Arab testimony about the events of 1947-48…