The other day on C-Span, Robert Novak said that Hillary Clinton is singularly unlikeable. People don’t like her. I’ve seen that with my friends. Yet almost all of them believe she’ll be our next president. Likeability was prized a lot…
When Bonds caught Aaron yesterday, Commissioner Bud Selig said he or another baseball official would attend the Giants’ next few games “out of respect for the tradition of the game, the magnitude of the record and the fact that all…
In a testy exchange with a Christian radio host, Mitt Romney bridled at being linked to Mormon church doctrine on abortion and other fundamental concerns. “I’m not running as a Mormon,” Romney said, “and I get a little tired of…
Yesterday’s presidential forum at the YearlyKos convention was all about bashing lobbyists, but there was one lobby they didn’t touch. According to the official chatroom at YearlyKos, Israel was off the table: [11:52] Quirinal Raymaker: [Apropos of fighting Al Qaeda]…
Did you notice the frankly-religious component of the evening news broadcasts on Thursday night, when all three anchors were in Minneapolis? Brian Williams choked up as he spoke of the “expired souls” who were under water, then gave what we…
I’ve signed a petition, organized by Richard Silverstein of Tikkun Olam and Dan Fleshler of Realisticdove , to protest the bill in the Israeli Knesset that would deny Arabs a right to lease land owned by the Jewish National Fund,…
On Tony Karon’s blog, Saif Ammous offers the following rundown on human rights in the Occupied Territories (Take note, Amnesty International…): …an observer will find an illegal Israeli occupation that has been festering for 40 years, combined with illegal ethnically-exclusive…
As indicated below, last Sunday I went to the Church of the Messiah, the Episcopalian Church in Woods Hole, MA, to hear Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty International. Rubenstein had been invited by a local study group on Middle East issues…
As September looms, bringing publication of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book on the Israel lobby, people are lining up on the issue. 1. This past weekend, I heard Josh Rubenstein of Amnesty International, speaking at an Episcopal church in Woods Hole,…