Bill Moyers has the temerity to attack Israel for killing 400 children in Gaza and suddenly he’s being attacked all over for hunting up gay people in the White House 40 years ago. The timing is just too– perfect. Wall…
I’m hoping Jeff Ballabon will be the rightwing Dan Rather. Remember when Dan Rather’s poor factchecking over George W. Bush’s National Guard service ended up elevating rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, which had showed that some of the paperwork…
Here’s a site I had never heard about, New Majority, in which protean neocon David Frum is trying to reinvigorate the neocons. The problem is that they offer the same oldtime dual-loyalty religion: Noah Pollak, in this case, of Commentary…
Note to journalists. You will not see a better headline than the headline on Steve Walt’s latest post at Foreign Policy: “Richard Perle is a liar”. Is there a more electrifying phrase in the English language? Walt delivers: The bottom…
Yesterday I posted on the fact that Jimmy Carter’s presidential ranking, per a group of august scholars retained by CNN, has plummeted in the last 9 years, I believe because he has been so engaged in Israel/Palestine. Well we live…
Today’s an important day, I can feel it. Our side is winning; I’ve gotten a number of signals about this already today. Something politically-huge is happening: the split between the conservative American Jewish leadership and the once-liberal “Jewish street” is…
A few weeks back CBS’s “60 Minutes” ran a groundbreaking piece by Robert Simon showing that settlements had destroyed the two-state solution. One thing the piece left out is that American extremists have played a crucial role in that destruction…
In CNN’s presidential rankings, lately released, Ford, Reagan, Clinton and Bush I all jumped up in rankings since the last time the panel of scholars reviewed presidential legacy, nine years ago, but Jimmy Carter plummeted, three positions, from 22d best…
George Mitchell makes a special call to Jewish community leaders at the instance of the White House to assure them that he understands their point of view and is committed to Israel’s security…