Newt Gingrich (h/t @RobGeorge): I think Republican consultants are mostly very stupid. I think they have no education. I think they have no sense of history. ...
Every year, young Jews from all over the world show up in Israel and volunteer to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Called "lone soldiers," they commit to the same enlistment mandated for most Israelis, male and female, and decades more of reserve duty. As...
The astoundingly unsurprising news that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned today reveals far more about the sorry state of our local Chicago democratic leadership than the trite and pathetic story of Jackson Jr.'s downfall. Jackson Jr., son of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has been AWOL...
Israel and Hamas, via Egypt and the U.S., have reached a "truce." Via AP: Israel and the Hamas militant group reached a cease-fire agreement Wednesday to end the fiercest round of fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an...
On Monday, I will have an in-depth account of the circumstances leading up to the cancellation of Ann Coulter's appearance at Fordham. In the course of the investigation I have spoken to numerous students involved in the events, and one interesting fact has emerged which I...
Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order
The "crazy-ing" of Marco Rubio blossoms...
Some important developments. Two journalists have confirmed that Palestinians have fired a long-range rocket at Israel from next to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. Neither journalist, of course, made it the headline, it was just mentioned in passing. The first was Jodi Rudgren of The New York Times...
A counter protest directed at a "Stand with Israel" rally held in downtown Chicago Tuesday chanted that Israel should "end the occupation now." The counter group on around 30, a coalition of pro-Palestinian forces along with Communist Party USA's Andy Thayer and others, accused Israel of...
Israel reportedly has been under cyber attack by Anonymous, although the lethality of the attacks is questioned: Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel’s cyber problems. Its campaign against Israel is a minor annoyance compared with...
Israel caught Hamas off guard. While Hamas reasonably could have expected retaliation for stepped-up missile fire, it did not anticipate the nature of the retaliation -- the assassination of the head of Hamas' military wing and the bombing of numerous long-range missile depots. The lesson of Lebanon...
After election day in Utah-04, Democrat Jim Matheson was ahead of Mia Love by 2,646 votes. But there were approximately 72,000 provisional and absentee ballots yet to be counted. The results for the final canvass are being released today. We will update. Thx @nra and @uschamber 4...
In the last remaining Operation Counterweight race to be decided, Republican challenger David Rouzer trails incumbent Mike McIntyre by the narrowest of margins. Of the more than 300,000 votes cast in North Carolina's 7th Congressional District, McIntyre leads Rouzer by just 655 votes. The Rouzer campaign released...
I bet you didn't realize that conservative media was to blame for Mitt Romney's loss by about 3% of the total vote, much closer in swing states. That's the story line at Buzzfeed Politics, How The Conservative Media Lost The Election. It is a story with barely a dissenting...
So says Paul Richter in the Los Angeles Times: The increasingly bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is threatening the Obama administration's plans to reinvigorate its Middle East diplomacy, creating new obstacles across the region as the president prepares for his second...
Early this morning Allen West released a statement conceding the race after his attempt to obtain a full recount lost any realistic chance. Based on his team's analysis there were not enough disputed or suspicious votes to overcome the approximately 2000 vote lead. As indicated yesterday from...
We still have choices. From Linda, taken at the Lowe's parking lot in Nashville: ...
