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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 4 Comments
Despite widespread speculation that “white supremacists” were behind the killings of two prosecutors in Texas (and the wife of one of the prosecutors), it turned out that a disgruntled Texas Justice of the Peace was behind the murders.  As in the Newtown and Boston Marathon...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2013 5 Comments
My son just earned his Space Exploration Merit Badge in Boy Scouts. So, we were very interested to learn about plans to rope-an-asteroid for closer study: The plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 10, 2013 2 Comments
1) Egyptian plagues Last week Zvi Mazel wrote in the Jerusalem Post (h/t Leslie Eastman) In a remarkable and enduring show of unity, non-Islamic opposition parties under the banner of the National Salvation Front are boycotting the regime until their demands – canceling the Islamic...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 27, 2013 17 Comments
Hollywood is apparently unhappy with Seth MacFarlane’s hosting of the Oscars on Sunday night.  So says the New York Times: Post-Oscar Monday found the movie capital coming to grips with a 3-hour-35- minute ceremony that climbed in the ratings but at its best seemed to...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 13, 2013 32 Comments
When Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor of Los Angeles in mid 2003, he promised to focus on quality-of-life issues the way Rudy Giuliani had so successfully in New York.  To Angelenos, the number one quality-of-life issue is transit.  Pretty much everything else pales in comparison (as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2012 55 Comments
On April 30, 2012, The Boston Globe broke the story that Chris Child of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) had located information about a marriage license showing that Elizabeth’s great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee, Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees: A record unearthed Monday shows that US...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 55 Comments
A  former editor in chief of Ms. Magazine observed in October 2008: It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2011 39 Comments
From David Dayen at Firedoglake: We’ll hear this was necessary because of Awlaki’s operational role, and his part played in the Fort Hood massacre and the Christmas Day bombing attempt.  In reality, many experts saw Awlaki as a public figurehead, a man who could speak...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2011 5 Comments
Aternative blog post title:  Why Jews still will vote for Obama, regardless. I know, you have a dream, that one day American Jews will judge political candidates by the content of their character not the “D” or “R” next to their names.  I told you...

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 15, 2011 13 Comments
While a perfect storm allowed Republicans to capture NY-9, possibly the most Jewish congressional district in the country, further progress in gaining Jewish support for GOP candidates will require confronting very different mechanisms than simply emphasizing support for Israel. As best explained in the book Partisan...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 22, 2011 8 Comments
Kathleen Robert Nelson really hit the nail on the head yesterday in the DC with his article “Earth Day — a national establishment of religion.” As such, issues such as climate change involve more than just “science.” The Bible’s book of Deuteronomy reveals dire consequences...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2011 7 Comments
Jane Corwin is a conservative Republican candidate in the May 24 special election in NY-26 to fill the seat vacated by Chris Lee, and should be well-positioned to win. But, as has happened before, someone has grabbed a Tea Party line on the ballot without any...
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