On Charlie Rose the other day, Jeffrey Toobin said that if Hillary becomes president, she will nominate Barack Obama for the Supreme Court. I was making my lunch, but I think Toobin said he had it from a reliable source….
Last night I went to a Hallowe’en party and met the mother of a Marine in Iraq. I pulled her into a corner to grill her about Middle East policy. She said the decision to invade was a great mistake,…
I don’t think there’s much question that there’s been progress in Iraq. Some markets seem to be flourishing, American deaths are down. That phantasma-gory-a of suicide bombings one day after another may even be petering out. Hallelujah. I remember a…
Here is a truly weird column about Jewish intelligence by Dana Milbank, the WP columnist who slagged Walt and Mearsheimer last year, labeling them blue-eyed and Teutonic, i.e., Nazis. (In this column he refuses even to dignify W&M by naming…
The November Commentary is not online yet, but I’m a subscriber, and it contains an article by a Christian theologian, R.R. Reno, that justifies the Jewish law against intermarriage–including Reno’s own, for which his Jewish daughter is now paying a…
Giuliani’s dangerous assembly of neocon advisers suits his temperament. Giuliani is hotheaded and operatic. I wonder if it also doesn’t serve his fundraising interests. Neoconservatism is a largely Jewish movement, and a large amount of political giving is now Jewish….
The feds have arrested David Brooks, the New Yorker who made a fortune selling body armor for the troops in Iraq, on fraud charges. There’s always been a Jewish angle on this story. Brooks lavished money on horses but it…
Here’s a link to a powerful article (in the Harvard/MIT journal International Security) on the tremendous damage done to the U.S. by faulty press coverage of Israel/Palestine, by Jerome Slater, a scholar at SUNY Buffalo. Apropos of my posts on…
Law professor Peter Berkowitz is one of Giuliani’s neoconservative braintrust: “his Senior Statecraft, Human Rights and Freedom Advisor.” In a piece in the Weekly Standard a couple of years ago, the new human rights and freedom advisor expressed grave concern…