My paternal grandfather’s cousin, Yechezkel Pulerevitch, was imprisoned in a Soviet concentration camp for seventeen years for the “crime” of being a Zionist. After his release, he was eventually alloweed to emigrate to Israel, where he organized former Soviet prisoners
My paternal grandfather’s cousin, Yechezkel Pulerevitch, was imprisoned in a Soviet concentration camp for seventeen years for the “crime” of being a Zionist. After his release, he was eventually alloweed to emigrate to Israel, where he organized former Soviet prisoners
It is becoming apparent that the U.S. may have left Iraq too soon–before the urgent threat posed by the Iranian regime could be removed or reduced. Critics of the Iraq War complained, with some justification, that its real strategic consequence
Mitt Romney’s weekend interview in the Wall Street Journal seems to add weight to conservative doubts about his candidacy. Romney doesn’t seem to get it: the 2012 election is about the size and cost of government. We already have a
The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) had struck several vehicles in eastern Sudan last week. An earlier airstrike in Sudan, April 2011 (Source: BBC) The targets were apparently smuggling convoys–presumably loaded with weapons destined for
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has published a report accusing Twitter, the popular social media service, of failing to explain its “indirect support for online jihad” by providing communication services to international terror groups, in apparent violation of
The sudden obsession with Ron Paul’s alleged racism is a classic mainstream media bait-and-switch, and conservatives seem to be falling for it. Anyone who has followed Ron Paul for the past few years ought to be familiar with the story
In the year since the Tea Party arrived in Congress, the movement has managed to change the debate on Capitol Hill, but not the way Washington works. The Tea Party has stopped President Barack Obama and the Democrats from bailing
Democrats, in full class warfare mode, have taken to calling Gov. Mitt Romney “Willard,” apparently in the belief that his given first name is elitist. Al Sharpton, for example, referred to Romney as “Willard” on MSNBC on Dec. 14, in
The primary field really is bad–for Democrats. As the media and voters scrutinize the Republican contenders, it is easy to forget how weak and unpopular the incumbent is. Polls suggest a majority of Americans want to replace President Barack Obama
In their attempt to spin the debate over a deeply problematic two-month payroll tax holiday against Republicans, Democrats have resorted to the sort of religious demagoguery that they routinely accuse conservatives of using. Democrat strategist (and convicted felon) Robert Creamer
Gov. Mitt Romney told NBC’s Chuck Todd today that the United States would not (and, by implication, should not) have invaded Iraq in 2003, had it been known that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction. If we
Frances Fox Piven, one of the co-authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the state with millions of additional welfare claimants, has published an article in the Nation calling for the Occupy Wall Street movement to re-invigorate itself by recruiting
The formidable Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal notes a glaring (im)moral equivalence in the New York Times‘s obituary for Kim Jong-Il: The real mystery is why, in free societies where few journalists and politicians are ever at serious
HonestReporting is a UK-based organization devoted to monitoring and criticizing media bias in Middle East coverage. It was founded in 2000, after the New York Times ran a photo of a bloodied youth whom it mis-identified as a Palestinian being
Aside from the performative displays of anguish–possibly sincere, in a bizarre way–note the total lack of interaction among mourners at monuments to recently deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Orwell’s great insight into totalitarianism was that it destroys all capacity
Aside from the performative displays of anguish–possibly sincere, in a bizarre way–note the total lack of interaction among mourners at monuments to recently deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Orwell’s great insight into totalitarianism was that it destroys all capacity
I am disgusted by the media declarations and the presidential proclamations that the war in Iraq has ended with the departure of US troops. It is an erroneous conclusion, designed with political victory in mind–and heedless of the risk of
Charles Krauthammer’s latest column in the Washington Post takes on President Barack Obama’s claim that he could not possibly be conducting a foreign policy of appeasement, given that his administration succeeded in killing Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda
After running a slew of anti-Israel op-eds, the New York Times invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to submit his own. [youtube UefytaWUwQ4] Netanyahu’s refusal, signed by senior adviser Ron Dermer and reprinted in the Jerusalem Post, is a masterstroke.
In the darkest of days, against the most corrosive of opponents, Christopher Hitchens stood for freedom, for America–and, quite simply, for who he was. Part 1 of 12 is embedded below; links to parts 2 through 12 are below the
Today, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) will formally introduce a new, bipartisan plan for Medicare reform. People 55 years of age or older would not be affected; everyone else, starting in 2022, will receive premium support
On NPR’s Morning Edition recently, senior news analyst Cokie Roberts told host Renee Montagne that President Barack Obama had sent “signals” to the debt supercommittee in support of a deal–even though he was on his way out of the country
Today, on the floor of the Senate, John McCain (R-AZ), Obama’s rival for the presidency in 2008, pointed out that President Obama had opposed the surge in Iraq that brought victory, and had likely turned that victory into defeat by
The mural below, by Obama iconographer and “OBEY” designer Shepard Fairey, appears on the side of a shopping center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Though the word “peace” appears at bottom, and there is a tulip in the barrel of
