Two nights ago I went to a friend’s 50th birthday on Long Island and stayed at the house of my wife’s dear friend, Virginia Reath. In the morning I grazed her book collection, found a copy of Allen Ginsberg’s Reality…
I just heard Joe Trippi on NPR this morning admiring the Sarah Palin choice as potentially transformative. Not that he’s for her. But Trippi is a populist operative, and he sees the power of Palin’s appeal. Trippi emphasized that both…
Politico is reporting that Karl Rove wants Joe Lieberman to get out of the running for McCain VP. Fascinating. It shows that Rove is afraid of the neoconservative movement in the Republican Party, as a threat to the social conservatives…
The only congressman who speaks Farsi is now out of the slammer. That’s a good reason to put anyone in the slammer, don’t you think? Former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, a Republican, says his corruption investigation in the Jack Abramoff…
Last night in Woods Hole, MA, I heard former ambassador George Lane, a career foreign service guy who was our top envoy to Yemen, speak about the U.S. role in the Middle East. Lane looks to be in his 70s,…
The New Jersey Jewish Standard has a review by Abraham Foxman of former Indiana congressman John Hostettler’s book Nothing for the Nation, which blames Israel firsters for pushing the Iraq war. Foxman ends his piece: Hostettler has settled upon the…
McCain’s surrogates, including Georgia boy Randy Scheunemann, are attacking Obama adviser Dan Kurtzer for visiting Syria to try and advance the Israel-Syria talks re the Golan. It’s amazing that the neocon agenda still gets such a pass in American politics….
More to say on the responses to my post, The Anti-Semites Are on My Side on These Issues, and how much should I care? First, Richard Witty never asked me to ban any commenters. What he did was suggest that…
David Shasha at 3 Quarks has analyzed the 92d Street Y’s program of events on the Upper East Side of NY in the coming year and concluded that while a plethora of non-Jews are invited to speak on many subjects,…