The headline of this story in today’s Virginian-Pilot is “Big money arrives in Virginia politics” and mentions two Hollywood guys: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is employing his professional skills to bankroll his campaign. He has imported more than $525,000…
A friend offered this bagatelle: Thought experiment on Jane Harman: if her name were Chang Ha Lee, and the country for which she allegedly ran interference as a de facto agent were China, would the reaction be: (a) harsher, (b)…
A friend offered this bagatelle: Thought experiment on Jane Harman: if her name were Chang Ha Lee, and the country for which she allegedly ran interference as a de facto agent were China, would the reaction be: (a) harsher, (b)…
Daniel Schorr is a commentator on NPR’s Saturday morning radio show. He has esteem in the liberal community. Per his autobiography, his mother was devoted to the Zionist cause, and that familial bias shows through in his work. This morning,…
This will be a short post because it is now such a familiar trope in our political life. I’d bore myself if I went through the details, which of course are always vague, to try and discover why Senator Kirsten…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Bruce Wolman writes: President Obama gave the keynote address Thursday at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol. The theme for this year’s ceremony was “Never Again: What You Do Matters.” Peterr over at Firedoglake remarked “it was actually…
I saw a great movie last night, the documentary Defamation, by Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and it is about the consecration of anti-Semitism as the central mode of Jewish identity and the…