The Harvard Independent has a fine piece in on two Palestinian freshmen, titled “Citizens of Nowhere.” One of the students grew up in a refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon. The other lives on the West Bank. His village is bisected…
All I ever needed to know about how smart Obama is comes from a friend of my wife’s who was in law school with him. The friend didn’t read the books for administrative law, didn’t go to class. He borrowed…
This is an astonishing video. Two nights ago, on February 20, Congressman Howard Berman, the soon-to-be-chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, visited the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association in his Los Angeles district. During the Q-and-A, a couple of audience…
Did you see the Times article about the staggering fees commanded by Hillary’s genius strategists as the campaign lost its way? The three are pollster Mark Penn, whose team collected over $10 million in January, ad maven Mandy Grunwald, who…
Here’s something about celebrity. In the latest New York Magazine, there’s a good piece about Heath Ledger’s last several months. Depending on the narrative you believe–official or subversive–he was either a rudderless wreck indulging himself in drugs, women and song,…
Here is a horrifying portrait of Gaza as an animal pen, in the Middle East Report. Cargo at [Gazan entry points] Kerem Shalom and Sufa is offloaded from trucks and then left on pallets in the open for Palestinians to…
Chelsea Clinton works for a hedge fund, but her mother has been attacking investment banks in her newly-populist speechifying, as not being real “work.” And good for her: “We also have to reward work more,” Clinton told a small group…
Leon Hadar has pointed me to a racist cartoon of Barack Obama that appeared in Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper, showing Obama painting the White House black. Hadar writes that the cartoon is a further effort by Israelis to question whether…