Print Joel B. Pollak Follow Read Full Bio Why I've lost interest in AIPAC's Policy Conference 4 Mar 2013 Why is AIPAC Welcoming Joe Biden? Vice President Joe Biden will address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference (AIPAC) on Monday. As decorum demands, attendees will welcome him with applause; Democrats in the audience will clap more loudly. AIPAC's leadership quietly boasts close relations with Biden, going back to his days in the Senate. Yet Biden's role on Israel issues in the Obama administration makes his appearance at the conference puzzling. 4 Mar 2013 Rasmussen Questions Media's Take on Spending Cut Polls Pollster Scott Rasmussen is questioning the media's interpretation of polling data that suggest the American public oppose spending cuts and favor spending increases for a variety of programs. In fact, Rasmussen says, Americans favor spending cuts. The misinterpretation, he says, is a result of the fact that the public and the political class interpret the word "cut" differently: in Washington, holding spending steady is defined as a "cut." 4 Mar 2013 Capitulation in the Capitol: Boehner, Republicans Will Yield on Budget Speaker of the House John Boehner told NBC News' Meet the Press on Sunday that he did not know whether the budget sequester would hurt the economy, but that it was clearly Obama's fault; and that he was committed to passing a continuing resolution this week to keep the federal government running through the end of the fiscal year in September, essentially approving current levels of spending as set by the Obama administration. 3 Mar 2013 CPAC Preview: The Tragedy of June 2009 3 Mar 2013 Sperling's Disingenuous Defense of Sequester White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, who controversially told journalist Bob Woodward he would "regret" accusing the Obama administration of shifting the goalposts to include tax hikes in debate over the sequester, offered a misleading defense of the sequester on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday. 3 Mar 2013 Reich: Tea Party 'Conspiracy to Undermine the Government of the United States' Democrats and the media have accused Tea Party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of "McCarthyism" merely for posing tough questions to and about Chuck Hagel during the latter's confirmation as Secretary of Defense. Yet a recent column by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich reveals who the real McCarthyites are in U.S. politics today, as Reich likens the Tea Party to a conspiracy "to undermine the government of the United States." 3 Mar 2013 In Harvard's Defense I’ve already defended Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), so now it’s my turn to defend the Harvard Crimson--or, more precisely, Harvard itself. 2 Mar 2013 'I'm gonna end on a positive note' - Andrew 1 Mar 2013 13 awesome hours of Andrew interviews 1 Mar 2013 Previous 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Next
Why is AIPAC Welcoming Joe Biden? Vice President Joe Biden will address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference (AIPAC) on Monday. As decorum demands, attendees will welcome him with applause; Democrats in the audience will clap more loudly. AIPAC's leadership quietly boasts close relations with Biden, going back to his days in the Senate. Yet Biden's role on Israel issues in the Obama administration makes his appearance at the conference puzzling. 4 Mar 2013
Rasmussen Questions Media's Take on Spending Cut Polls Pollster Scott Rasmussen is questioning the media's interpretation of polling data that suggest the American public oppose spending cuts and favor spending increases for a variety of programs. In fact, Rasmussen says, Americans favor spending cuts. The misinterpretation, he says, is a result of the fact that the public and the political class interpret the word "cut" differently: in Washington, holding spending steady is defined as a "cut." 4 Mar 2013
Capitulation in the Capitol: Boehner, Republicans Will Yield on Budget Speaker of the House John Boehner told NBC News' Meet the Press on Sunday that he did not know whether the budget sequester would hurt the economy, but that it was clearly Obama's fault; and that he was committed to passing a continuing resolution this week to keep the federal government running through the end of the fiscal year in September, essentially approving current levels of spending as set by the Obama administration. 3 Mar 2013
Sperling's Disingenuous Defense of Sequester White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, who controversially told journalist Bob Woodward he would "regret" accusing the Obama administration of shifting the goalposts to include tax hikes in debate over the sequester, offered a misleading defense of the sequester on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday. 3 Mar 2013
Reich: Tea Party 'Conspiracy to Undermine the Government of the United States' Democrats and the media have accused Tea Party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of "McCarthyism" merely for posing tough questions to and about Chuck Hagel during the latter's confirmation as Secretary of Defense. Yet a recent column by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich reveals who the real McCarthyites are in U.S. politics today, as Reich likens the Tea Party to a conspiracy "to undermine the government of the United States." 3 Mar 2013
In Harvard's Defense I’ve already defended Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), so now it’s my turn to defend the Harvard Crimson--or, more precisely, Harvard itself. 2 Mar 2013