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11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Church Leader Shows Wh... · 0 replies · +6 points

the "colored world" at war with colonialism: well, that's what's left of their fellowship in Christ.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - How WaPo Covered Opera... · 0 replies · +5 points

They denounced the propagandistic picture that has its own "thousand words" story. And look, there the picture is. The Washington Post traditionally and habitually implies that civilian casualties are intentional and represents Palestinian combatants killed as "Palestinia" dead, i.e. civilians. Would HillelA suffer his family to be intermittently shot at by some guy with a grievance from the garage in the next lot. Maybe so.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - A Strange Twist in the... · 0 replies · +2 points

Contradicting an earlier link (now deleted) to a pajamasmedia'/Newsmax un-sourced story the latest published timeline for the denouement of this is not far removed in time from the actual resignation. It has not been deviously on ice for months and months. Ms. Broadwell started harassing by e-mail a friend/colleague of the General Ms. Broadwell thought was too "flirtatious"; the woman being harassed knew a .... FBI agent. Hilarity ensued. Justice, including Holder knew about the investigation since this past summer, but only Justice as FBI reported through their channels.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333206/justi...

And there have been no conspiracies involving foreign espionage sources revealed. The FBI worked backwards forensically to find out who was harassing the woman to see if they had a cyber-stalker on their hands. Identifying Ms. Broadwell's e-mail account they discovered sexually intimate e-mails. Having identified the nominal sender as Petraeus they then had to cross-off the possibility that Petraeus had been cyber-hacked and got his confirmation that they were his. But they didin't interview Ms. Broadwell until October 21.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is it Already Too Late... · 0 replies · +1 points

But if Israel's security establishment does not believe that pre-emption is critical, they are the princes living in the Land.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is it Already Too Late... · 2 replies · +3 points

Who knows perhaps advances in computers, science, and technology, could lead to a nuclear weapon whose release of energy is modulated and less geologically and geographically catastrophic than our current stockpile. Or, the use of nukes in an uninhabited portion of Iran could serve as a diversionary part of an integrated attack involving suppressing air and rocket fire and the insertion of a ground force.

But, we have to recognize that the Israeli defense and security establishment *is* complacent and their fallback position may well be that deterrence and containment of a nuclear weaponized Iran is possible and rational given the ability of electronic and other monitoring of the state at any time of their launch or no launch decisions.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - GOP Can't Be the Party... · 0 replies · 0 points

"Religion is fake" "mad rantings of a prophet"--there you go, the most incisive examination of the Spirit since Jacques Maritain. Case closed, eh? LIke Joe Stalin, you pound out these little pronunciamentos intended to rhetorically drive the nails of semi-learned abstractions into the coffin of concepts that offend your lack of understanding.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - GOP Can't Be the Party... · 0 replies · 0 points

I'm sorry, there are a couple of things you yourself have forget to consider with the sensitivity you routinely bring to your utterances:

1. "Religion is fake" and the "mad rantings of a prophet" are adolescent snark at once of such profound stupidity and superficial self-congratulatory lack of meaning that, like a flaccid penis, it doesn't even rise to the level of observation much less comment.
2. The much debated meaning of the First Amendment's strictures against Congressional sanction of an established religion are not the sole property of Thomas Jefferson and its drafters and ratifiers would have found your tyrannical atheistic purging of religious influence from the America culture (or the Constitutional imposition of gay marriage) stark raving bonkers. Prayer, for example, in pubic schools, was an unremarked fact of life until the late 1950's. The immutable Constitutional intolerance of God was not discovered into close to two hundred years after the republic's founding.
3. The author was not fired, he was a free lancer.
4. You're diktats preclude freedom of discussion--the closest political writer I can think of to compare your sentiments to is not Thomas Jefferson but Joe Stalin.
5. As to Leviticus, see your points 1. and 2. and point 1. here.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - GOP Can't Be the Party... · 1 reply · -7 points

Because we're Jews here and care about those things and your dogmatic spouting of atheist pieties not only reveals a tyrannical distemper of intolerance but is misaddressed. Even on that level, old Tom, an slaveholder addicted to his need for compulsory labor to keep his debt-addled domestic economy in check, talked a better game than he walked with all that liberte and egalite. Get your goyisher butts back to schmucksvile.

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is it Already Too Late... · 0 replies · +7 points

Well, Israel will still have its nukes. They may or may not always share Mr. Tobin's assessment of natural law and Israeli interest .

11 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Democrats Better Start... · 1 reply · +7 points

Romney ran a campaign based on flawed assumptions buttressed by erroneous internal polling that it was his election to lose--accounting for the step-down after the highlight of the first debate. This may or may not be telling us something about the wider political atmosphere.

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