Remember the scene from Woody Allen’s film “Annie Hall” in which a pompous know-it-all is pontificating in a movie line about the ideas of media scholar Marshall McLuhan? After enduring the man’s maundering for several minutes, Woody Allen’s character pulls McLuhan himself from behind a movie poster and McLuhan …
Hillary Clinton received a warm welcome and standing ovations this morning from nearly 7500 AIPAC delegates–or citizen lobbyists–from across the U.S. as she delivered a highly anticipated speech that heavily addressed last week’s diplomatic flap between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations.
Clinton did not back away from the Obama administration’s criticism, last week, of the Israeli …
I’m writing from the AIPAC Policy conference, the main yearly conference of the largest lobbying organization supporting the U.S./Israel alliance, where tomorrow evening’s speaker will be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and tomorrow morning’s speaker will be U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The other day I blogged about what I suspected was Hillary’s staged …
Is it just me, or does anyone else think last week’s drama surrounding Vice President Joe Biden’s supposed “embarrassment” and Hillary Clinton’s rage over an Israeli decision to build 1600 apartments in East Jerusalem seems manufactured?
I have struggled mightily and sincerely to keep an open mind, and my respect for the Presidency–as well as my …
From Jewish World Review
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Despite criticizing Netanyahu administration in address, Hillary receives standing ovation
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received a warm welcome and standing ovations yesterday from nearly 7500 AIPAC delegates — or citizen lobbyists — from across the U.S. as she delivered a highly anticipated …
Last Thursday The Lawfare Project, a non-profit founded by attorney Brooke Goldstein (pictured above) to confront “lawfare” – which Goldstein defined in her opening remarks as “the use of the law as a weapon of war” — held a conference at the New York County Law Building in …
Millions of voters braved the threat of bombs and bullets to participate in yesterday’s Parliamentary elections in Iraq. As usual, the terrorists tried to intimidate voters but again as usual, the sorry few cowards could not intimidate the courageous majority. What a triumph for democracy.
In the election’s aftermath, Mithal …
Oh, what a night–and what an Olympic season, indeed–for our neighbor to the North!
Tonight the 2010 Winter Olympics ended. Canada squeaked past the U.S. to win in men’s ice hockey, with Pittsburgh Penguins team captain Sidney Crosby scoring the winning goal.
Since Crosby has brought his great talent to Pittsburgh over the past several years, we are inclined …
Iraqi Liberal Warns of a Fixed Election
From The New York Post
by HEATHER ROBINSON
In a phone interview from Baghdad yester day, an Iraqi member of parliament said he believes he and other liberals are being shortchanged votes by an Iraqi Electoral Commission that has been corrupted by Iran.
“The citizens of Iraq …