From the Frying Pan into the Fire
Those who keep advising Obama to fire people miss a key point: the replacements could be worse than the current crew. No, it really is possible. Mayor Daley of Chicago won’t run for another term, and...
View ArticleA Whole Lot Harder
I share Karl Rove’s pessimism that the prospects for a GOP takeover of the Delaware Senate seat are now remote. He reels off a long list of Christine O’Donnell’s personal failings and credibility...
View ArticleHas Liberal Washington Figured Out the Palestinians?
During the course of his first year and a half in office, President Barack Obama demonstrated time and again that he was not shy about placing pressure on Israel. Having picked fights with Prime...
View ArticleA Really Big Whopper
Joe Sestak’s campaign is going down the tubes. The Senate Democratic Campaign Committee may decide to stop pouring money down the drain. So what does he do? He panics and tries to regain Jewish voters...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t He Been Fired Yet?
We’ve written quite a bit about defining anti-Semitism downward on the list of public sins — that is, establishing a much different standard for bigotry against Jews than against other groups. Ben...
View ArticleECI 1 – Soros Street 0
The leftist Tablet looks at the Senate race. The most interesting is Pennsylvania (h/t Ben Smith): PENNSYLVANIA Jewish candidate guy: Senator Arlen Specter (D). People who are actually running: Joe...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Stu Rothenberg doesn’t think much of the Dems’ Chamber of Commerce gambit: “This is what we call the political version of ‘jumping the shark’ — a desperate-looking charge that a campaign or a party...
View ArticleIsrael, Iran, and Senate Races
To his credit, Ron Kampeas reverses course and supports Mark Kirk’s push-back against the assertions made by Democratic surrogates that Kirk had nothing to do with the sanctions bill. It seems as...
View ArticleThe Chronically Unserious Dana Milbank
Fox News has an unparalleled capacity to cause liberal journalists to say really stupid things. Take the case of the chronically unserious Dana Milbank. (Who can forget this moment?) In his Washington...
View ArticleWhat Can the GOP Senators Get?
Untangling fact from fiction and sneer from substance in a Maureen Dowd column is not a task for the fainthearted, especially when she wades into matters of policy. But let’s give it a shot. She...
View ArticleBen Smith Spills the Beans: Obama’s Middle East Policy Is a Disaster
Ben Smith reveals what nearly every serious Middle East observer already knows: Obama has made things worse, not better, in that volatile region. He reports: Instead of becoming a heady triumph of his...
View ArticleDebating the Middle East Debacle
Politico devotes part of its Arena discussion to Ben Smith’s compelling report on Obama’s Middle East blunders. What is interesting is that, aside from the executive director of the notoriously...
View ArticleWhy Do Israeli Settlers Love Sarah Palin?
On a visit to Israel, Ben Smith makes note of an interesting trend. He reports that while most Israelis don’t seem to have any preference for which Republican they want to win the presidential...
View ArticleAre You Now or Have You Ever Been a Zionist?
We know that the Obama administration has been far from friendly to Israel — but is this sentiment now influencing policy at the IRS? The Jewish group Z Street, which claims that its request for...
View ArticleIs the IRS Investigating Pro-Israel Groups for Terrorism Ties?
Court affidavits filed by the IRS indicate that the agency has been giving extra scrutiny to Jewish organizations that provide material or financial support to Israel, out of concerns that these...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Can Michael Steele actually win re-election as RNC chair? Chris Cilliza crunches the numbers and finds that the unpopular GOP official just doesn’t have the support: “In the most optimistic assessments...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
On a trip to China this weekend, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that the country’s military capabilities are more advanced than previously thought: “China’s investment in new ballistic missiles...
View ArticleThe Unraveling of the New York Times‘s ‘Citizens United Scandal’ Story
Liberal advocacy group Common Cause has filed a DOJ petition against Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas, claiming that the justices’ attendance at a Koch Industry event represented a...
View ArticleThe Definition of ‘Anti-Israel’
Last week, Steve Clemons organized a contingent of foreign-policy officials and commentators to send a letter to President Obama urging the U.S. to support the anti-settlement resolution at the UN. It...
View ArticlePolitico Swallows New White House Spin on Israel
It’s a new year and a somewhat new crew running things at the White House, what with Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod gone, so it’s to be expected that we’re now getting a new spin about the Middle East...
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