Flotsam and Jetsam
Gloom and doom from the Democrats: “Dems are worried that a new feud between the WH and their liberal base is further endangering the party’s candidates during the midterms, exacerbating an already...
View ArticlePlaying the Bigot Card
On the Ground Zero mosque, the left is playing the bigot card, big time. Some may honestly believe the mosque opponents are Muslim-haters, for they cannot fathom why their fellow citizens would object...
View ArticleHagel, Sestak, and Pro-Israel Groups
When Chuck Hagel threw his support to Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak and seemed to have made it into the short list for a replacement for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, alarm bells went off...
View ArticleRE: A Whole Lot Harder
Charlie Cook (subscription required) wastes no time: Marketing consultant Christine O’Donnell’s upset of Rep. Mike Castle in last night’s Republican primary puts this open seat, which should have been...
View ArticleJ Street Unmasked
It’s been a mystery: what sliver of the electorate is J Street representing? Where is the market for virulent left-wing, anti-Israel propaganda disguised as tough love? It is hard to believe there is a...
View ArticleJ Street’s Dead End
Easy prediction: the revelation that J Street has been underwritten by George Soros, who has used the anti-Semitic canard that Jews cause anti-Semitism, and a mystery woman from Hong Kong, and that it...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The Democrats are in trouble: “If voters think the economy’s gotten worse under a Democratic President they’re going to vote Republican. Add in the Democrats’ enthusiasm issues and you have the formula...
View ArticleIt’s Not the “Right Wing” That Did in J Street
As I observed on Sunday, all but a select few among the hard-core left have abandoned any hope of rescuing J Street from its self-inflicted wounds. This is not, as Jeremy Ben-Ami would have us believe,...
View ArticleThe Laws of War Evidently Don’t Apply to Israel
The New York Times reported Monday on a U.S. soldier charged with killing Afghan civilians for fun. Yet much of the report was devoted to explaining why civilian killings by soldiers usually don’t...
View ArticleFreaking Out J Street
Washington Jewish Week reports that the Emergency Committee for Israel is making quite a splash: In the past few months, ECI has made a name for itself by assaulting Democrats in hotly contested...
View ArticleMore on How the Jewish Groups Did
The Emergency Committee for Israel’s executive director (and CONTENTIONS contributor), Noah Pollak, has released a statement: Last night was a good night for the US-Israel relationship, with supporters...
View ArticleGround Zero Mosque: A Public Debate
This evening, November 9, at 6 p.m., a public forum will be held on the topic of “The Ground Zero Mosque: To Build or Not to Build?” at Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs. The panel discussing...
View ArticleJihadist Prayer Sessions on Capitol Hill?!
A longtime reader passes on this astounding report: An Al Qaeda leader, the head of a designated terror organization and a confessed jihadist-in-training are among a “Who’s Who” of controversial...
View ArticleRE: Debt Commission Surprises
As I observed yesterday, the debt commission came out with a preliminary report that was better than expected from the perspective of conservatives and an anathema to liberals. The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleIs Israel’s Controversial NGO Law Simply a ‘Foreign Agent Registration Act’?
Israel’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Danny Ayalon, has written a persuasive defense of the Knesset’s new inquiry panel that will investigate whether Israeli NGOs involved in the anti-Israel...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
President Obama’s decision to tap former banker William Daley as his next chief of staff is angering all the right people: “This was a real mistake by the White House,” [Adam] Green, the co-founder of...
View ArticleHistorians and Civic Responsibility
The American Historical Association is on a roll. Last month, I felt compelled to read not one but two articles in its monthly newsmagazine, Perspectives on History. This month, the count is two again....
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier misread the judicial system in Haiti. Just days after he mysteriously returned to the country after a 25-year exile, the former Haitian dictator was...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
What’s driving the disturbing trend of self-immolation in Arab countries? The Jerusalem Post editorial board writes that it’s a combination of pent-up frustration, a desire to encourage others through...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Want to Cut UN Funding
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the new House Foreign Affairs Committee chair, has come up with another superb proposal. The congresswoman wants to cut funding for the UN — particularly the money that goes...
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