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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 1 Comment

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at AIPAC last night. It takes a few minutes for him to get into a groove, but it's worth the watch. The speech was interrupted several times by hecklers who were escorted out. The money line comes at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 34 Comments

You don't need me.  You have $7 million plus in the bank, and as of now, you're the most popular politician in Massachusetts.I'm just a small-time, part-time, squeeze-in-posts-between-real-life, blogger.  I supported you in early December 2009, when no one gave you a chance, and continued to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 10 Comments

Why are the pre-1967 borders of Israel, which amount to the 1949 armistice lines, so sacrosanct?Once you buy into the narrative of exclusive Palestinian victimization, once you take the Helen Thomas view which is widely accepted in many circles that Israel is an alien European...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 23, 2011 1 Comment

Kathleen My friend Zach Caceres, a recent NYU grad, has a guest post over at the fantastic 'Let a Thousand Nations Bloom' blog. Political scientists have shown the costs of status quo bias in simple acts of political reform. Even mutually beneficial reforms like free-trade,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 9 Comments

The disloyalty card is being played by Jeffrey Goldberg (who took great offense to Benjamin Netanyahu's perceived disrespect towards "my President"), Glenn Greenwald (the evil and disloyal Israel Lobby, again) and Andrew Sullivan (the Israeli-influenced media and the crazy Christians, again).Yet these critics who are so quick to run for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 14 Comments

So says Mohamed ElBaradei:Egypt is disintegrating socially and its economy “is bust,” said Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and possible candidate for the Egyptian presidency.“Right now, socially, we are disintegrating,” ElBaradei said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” scheduled to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 12 Comments

who will ask, 'Mother, what was war?'"Noble dream, but what if your enemies dream of giving birth to children who will ask, "Mother, how soon can we go to war?"Spotted by reader Philip in San Diego:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 21 Comments

As explained both here and by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the theories of election fraud propagated by the Kloppenburg campaign based on gaps and holes in ballot bags are absurd because the numbers have not changed much from the election night reports (including by the city of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 3 Comments

Thanks to reader Emily, who was in Rhode Island recently for her daughter's graduation from Providence College, for alerting me to this article in the Providence Journal about PC's so-called Lost Class of '44.The story is somewhat familiar but worth remembering; a class of college...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 22, 2011 1 Comment

Kathleen David Friedman, the controversial son of Noble Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, had an excellent post on his (vastly underrated) blog yesterday, relaying his observations from a commencement speech made by a former judge: He took for granted, and obviously approved of, one of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 12 Comments

If you needed proof that Obama's Middle East speech was a mistake and simply would embolden Palestinians to pocket the territorial victory, you didn't need to wait long:Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat on Sunday said that he agreed with US President Barack Obama's assertion that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 7 Comments

Jack Stuef was the writer at Wonkette who wrote the article mocking Trig Palin which set off a firestorm which took with it numerous Wonkette advertisers.While Stuef certainly was responsible for what he wrote, the real blame belonged to Ken Layne, the owner and chief editor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 26 Comments

Via L.A. Times (h/t reader James), Mitch Daniels will not run for President:Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said early Sunday that he won't run for president because of family considerations, narrowing the field in the race for the GOP nomination."In the end, I was able to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 20 Comments

that this person has an iPhone or iPad made at a factory in China, which she uses to read liberal blogs which object to outsourcing by big corporations.  And hurries into and out of Wal-Mart really quickly so as not to be spotted, with an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2011 12 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:I previously wrote about accusations by Princeton Professor Cornel West that Obama was racist. Against blacks.Now West lays into Obama again.  It speaks for itself, and is causing all...

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