Anti-Semitism at Democrats.com
I've always believed that the progressive community should be more diverse, more tolerant of difference, and more embracing of constructive criticism than our political opponents. But alas in a few...
View ArticleShimon Peres Abandons Israeli Labor
Amir Peretz has, in the past month, almost single-handedly moved Israel's political tectonic plates forcefully to the left. Would that he could work his magic on our own seemingly moribund Democratic...
View ArticleViveca Novak: Journalist as Blabbermouth
Today's NYT reveals that Novak tipped off Rove & Luskin about the meeting with Matt Cooper: People involved in the case said that at a minimum Ms. Novak communicated to Mr. Luskin that Mr. Rove...
View ArticleSeismic Shift in Israeli Politics but None Among American Jewish leadership
M.J. Rosenberg writes the weekly IPF Friday for the Israel Policy Forum, where he is director of policy analysis. Yesterday's column dealt with this week's momentous developments within Israeli...
View ArticleCheryl Halpern: Hard-Right Pro-Israel Ideologue at CPB
At this site and others like The Nation we've all learned about the sordid details of Ken Tomlinson's little CPB laboratory for bought & paid for Republican public broadcasting. We've also heard...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly: Don't Wish Me a 'Merry Christmas!"
In a Gallup poll last year, 88 percent of respondents said it was a good idea to wish people "Merry Christmas" even at risk of offending those who do not celebrate it. By comparison, 11 percent thought...
View ArticleMel Gibson's Holocaust TV Miniseries
I kid you not. The guy who offended Jews deeply by his wicked portrayal of them in The Passion now has decided he's going to appropriate a new Jewish experience. But unlike The Passion, Gibson's not...
View ArticleWas Roberto Alpizar Sacrificed on the Altar of Homeland Security?
I've written a blog post about the murder of Roberto Alpizar by air marshals in Miami earlier this week. I'd like to raise some questions about the incident in readers' minds. Things don't quite add...
View ArticleAny NSA-scandal impeachment polls?
The dreaded 'I' word is on more and more lips (read my own blog post on this) these past two days with news of Bush's bush-league end-around the Constitution. Last July, Jim Zogby released poll...
View ArticleLiar, Liar Pants on Fire!
Here's another example of Bush, Hayden, et al. talking out their asses about the NSA spying program. This from today's NYT: A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping...
View ArticleDid FISA Judges Consent to Illegal Break-Ins to Obtain Evidence?
Martin Garbus has been covering the legal/constitutional angle of the NSA scandal for Huffington Post. He came up with an arresting tidbit in tonight's HP column: ...The facts will show that the Bush...
View ArticleUNHCR Abandons Sudanese Refugees to Egyptian Massacre
We owe a debt of gratitude to the NY Times' Michael Slackman for his excellent coverage of last week's Egyptian massacre of Sudanese refugees in Cairo. The death toll is now up to 26 (with Infoshop...
View ArticleJack Abramoff: Young Republican & Other Campus Memories
I've been covering Jack Abramoff pretty regularly in my blog, especially focusing on his Jewishness and the role it plays in his world view. Every so often, I write a post and someone far more directly...
View ArticleSharon's Life in the Balance: Momentous Night in Israeli Political History
With Ariel Sharon's massive stroke earlier today, Israeli politics has not faced a more confused, bereft night since the one on which Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995, a little more than 1o years...
View ArticleAbramoff: This S&!T is So Good You Couldn't Make It Up!
"I don't understand the situation that's engulfed our family," Frank Abramoff said. "My son is a religious person, a charitable-minded person. He's worked hard all his life and never asked for...
View ArticleHamas Scores Major Upset Victory
The big Mideast news tonight is that the Palestinian people have conducted one of the most free, open and democratic elections in the entire Arab world. Palestinians made history. A million of them...
View ArticleMaryland Republican Michael Steele Likens Stem Cell Research to Nazi Science
Oh those Republicans. Ya just gotta love 'em. They can't seem to get enough of the Holocaust as a tool for denouncing science and politics they don't like. The latest victim of 'Holocaust abuse...
View ArticleAnti-Arab Xenophobia Alive and Well in U.S. Senate
The NY Times notes yesterday that U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Robert Mendendez are polishing their anti-Arab credentials in a rather arcane local issue that has broad international...
View ArticleNPR's Schorr Decries 'Xenophobia' Against Dubai Ports Deal
For the life of me, I don't understand the relative uniformity of opposition among the progressive blog and media community to the Dubai ports deal. The only bloggers besides myself whom I've found...
View ArticleUAE to Scuttle $10-Billion Boeing Deal if Ports Deal Scuttled?
I've been dedicating diary entries the past few days to what I consider voices of reason in the Dubai ports deal debate. That is, those in the progressive blog world and MSM who are troubled by the...
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