To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Business Of Politics
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Even prominent Republicans, such as former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, agree that you don’t need a special prosecutor to investigate whether former President Bill Clinton can have a conversation with Congressman Joe Sestak about job possibilities other than running for Senate, or whether White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s deputy can […]
Coburn Half Right
Time To Call The Tea Party’s Bluff
BY FORMA HARROP I’m done trying to hack through the Tea Party thicket of self-contradiction, self-delusion and self-serving positions. My last straw is Rand Paul, a Tea Party favorite and now Republican nominee for senator from Kentucky. What damns Paul wasn’t the flap over his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Presumably, Paul […]
Israel From 10,000 Feet
BY JOE CONASON The government of Israel is supposedly run by the Jewish state’s toughest and most ardent defenders, but so far they have inflicted worse damage on its security and its future than its enemies ever could. By treating a Gaza-bound aid flotilla as a military threat, killing nine civilians and imprisoning hundreds more, […]
Before You Beat Up On Israel
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Since Hamas took over in Gaza in 2007, Israel has attempted to enforce a blockade. No one doubts that hardships have resulted – but not enough hardships for Hamas to renounce its commitment to terror or to the destruction of the state of Israel. Hamas likes to trumpet its humanitarian works – […]