RE: Blame America First
Jonathan Tobin does a fantastic job of dissecting James Bradley’s ludicrous attempt to blame Theodore Roosevelt, of all people, for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I had read Bradley’s New York...
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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has picked up on the April 4 – Easter Sunday – greeting to the Palestinian people of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. In it, Fayyad promised that next year, the people will hold...
View ArticleRE: Leftist Soccer Agony: U.S. Victory Equals Jingoism
For once, I need to strike a discordant note with my colleague Jonathan Tobin about soccer (or, as most of us call it, football). The real irony of the entire NPR newsroom bursting in enthusiastic...
View ArticleRE: CENTCOM’s ‘Red Team’ Hearts Hamas and Hezbollah
Jonathan Tobin is right to be concerned about the thinking evinced by the CENTCOM Red Team about Hezbollah and Hamas. But it doesn’t surprise me that much. It’s a natural outgrowth of the operational...
View ArticleRE: Jerusalem Dig Yields Yet Another Historical Gem
Reporting on yet another remarkable archaeological finding in Jerusalem, Jonathan Tobin writes today that: This matters because many influential archaeologists, as well as Palestinian propagandists,...
View ArticleYou Want to See Islamophobia?
Perhaps American journalists eager to apologize to the world for America’s Islamophobia should take note of the following. According to the AP, “An Islamic centre has been firebombed in Berlin — one of...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like President Obama has finally found some backbone in his diplomatic spat with Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan president rejected the U.S.’s choice for ambassador to Caracas and dared Obama to...
View ArticleRE: Curb Your Enthusiasm
I agree with Jonathan Tobin: the predicted delay in Iran’s achievement of a working nuclear weapon is the mildest of good news. For one thing, the year 2015 has figured in the CIA’s outside projection...
View ArticleDon’t Ignore the Politics of Mossad’s Iran Assessment
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is clearly doing her best to defuse the bombshell dropped last week by Israel’s outgoing Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. During a visit to the Gulf states yesterday, she...
View ArticleLive Blogging Tonight During the State of the Union Speech
Members of Congress may be searching across the aisle for dates for the State of the Union speech tonight (Yes, we’re talking about you, Eric Cantor — there has to be somebody other than Nancy Pelosi...
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