Exemptions Granted by U.S. Prove Iran Sanctions Won’t Work
Those aware of the profound nature of the threat that an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose to the West and to Israel have long been assured by the Washington foreign policy establishment that if...
View ArticleWhy Did Barack Obama Endorse Dog-Killing QB?
The New York Times’ pro football blog informed us today that reporter Peter King told a national audience on NBC’s “Football Night in America” yesterday that President Barack Obama recently called...
View ArticleThe War in Afghanistan Is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Global Terrorism
When I recently participated in an Intelligence Squared US debate about Afghanistan, my debate partner, terrorism expert Peter Bergen (who, like me, argued that it’s not a lost cause), was practically...
View ArticleMore Ethics Troubles for J Street President
It looks like the left-wing “pro-Israel” group J Street can now add “self-dealing” to its growing list of scandals. Documents obtained by the Washington Times reveal that the group paid at least...
View ArticleJohn Gross, 1935-2011
John Gross, one of the most delightful, literate, and civilized men in the English-speaking world, died earlier today in London at the age of 75. A literary journalist and critic of the highest order,...
View ArticleWhy the Arizona Massacre Is Fodder for Liberal Attacks
Even before most of the country had even learned the facts of the Arizona massacre on Saturday, the headline on the homepage of the New York Times website proclaimed that “In Attack’s Wake, Political...
View ArticleRE: Is the Right Worse Than the Left?
When it comes to plain old bigotry, no. George Will in today’s column quotes Charles Blow’s March 26, 2010, column in the Times. Blow notes that the “far right,” by which he means either mainstream...
View Article‘Have You No Decency, Sir?’
I agree completely with Pete that Krauthammer’s column is a great blow to Krugman. It’s made all the more forceful by the fact that Krauthammer is not only a brilliant columnist but also a psychiatrist...
View ArticleIran Declares War on Purim
Less than two years ago, the readers of the New York Times were being treated to Roger Cohen’s tribute to Iran’s supposedly kindly treatment of the remnant of a once-great Jewish community. Cohen’s...
View ArticleWas It Time or Bias that Caused the Media to Slant the Story?
Since Daniel Okrent left the post, the men who have served as the public editor of the New York Times haven’t caused much trouble for the journalists they are supposed to be monitoring. That has...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
The street riots in Tunisia could lead to a democratic revolution, but they could also lead to the rise of an extremist government, like the 1979 Islamic revolution did in Iran. In the Washington Post,...
View ArticleThe China Show
According to the New York Times, Barack Obama is about to get tough on China. Helene Cooper quotes Clinton administration national-security expert David Rothkopf, who says, “There’s been this...
View ArticleTime for Our Allies to Ante Up in Funding Afghan Security Forces
It’s good to hear that the Afghan government and the international community are signing off on a plan to increase the size of the Afghan Security Forces from today’s level of 266,000 soldiers and...
View ArticleThe FBI Thought AIPAC’s Rosen Was a Spy for Israel
The Washington Times reported today that the FBI believed that former AIPAC lobbyist Steven Rosen was a spy for Israel when it got a warrant to search his office in 2004. The evidence? Rosen was...
View ArticleGail Collins and Joe Lieberman: Not Much of a Competition There
Gail Collins of the New York Times has written a column upon Joe Lieberman’s announcement of his retirement from the Senate that, as with so many of her pieces, is written in a spirit of jocularity...
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 ArticleStill Another Peace Plan
Today’s New York Times describes the report by David Makovsky of the Washington Institute — “Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue” — which provides...
View ArticleSend in the Mercenaries
The New York Times reported last week in horrified tones about an apparent plan by Saracen International — a South African security firm — to offer its services to the government of Somalia. According...
View ArticleIranian-Funded Press TV’s British Bank Accounts Frozen
Press TV, the international news organization and propaganda arm of the Iranian government, has had its British bank account frozen, the Times of London reported today. The frozen account is thought to...
View ArticleRE: Why Did Peace Talks Fail?
Jonathan, I agree that the failure of the year-long final status negotiations in 2008 demonstrates that even “moderate” Palestinian leaders are unable to make peace — even when given an offer that, as...
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