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Commentary Magazine : Church Leader Shows Where Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Merge

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:27:39 +0000

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

Commentary Magazine : How WaPo Covered Operation Pillar of Defense

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:22:55 +0000

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.

Commentary Magazine : A Strange Twist in the Petraeus Story? / UPDATE: No

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:53:48 +0000

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.

Commentary Magazine : Is it Already Too Late to Stop Iran?

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:46:42 +0000

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

Commentary Magazine : Is it Already Too Late to Stop Iran?

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:46:40 +0000

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.

Commentary Magazine : GOP Can't Be the Party of Old White Men

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:26:13 +0000

"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.

Commentary Magazine : GOP Can't Be the Party of Old White Men

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:19:58 +0000

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.

Commentary Magazine : GOP Can't Be the Party of Old White Men

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:06:11 +0000

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.

Commentary Magazine : Is it Already Too Late to Stop Iran?

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:18:06 +0000

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

Commentary Magazine : Democrats Better Start Soul Searching

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:14:39 +0000

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.

Commentary Magazine : GOP Can't Be the Party of Old White Men

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:08:31 +0000

Yes, liberalism conflates biological and moral evolution. Your labeling of 3,000 years of Jewish religious tradition as egregiously and transparently wrong is a liberal argument posing as a reasoned attack on the abstractly indefensible but fairly re-considered as a transgression against stable lessons learned from experienced, delivered ex cathedra by fiat. I'm not saying these things aren't debatable but your whole stance shuts off debate in the name of attacking "ancient religious prejudice" on a Jewish website called "Commentary".

Commentary Magazine : GOP Can't Be the Party of Old White Men

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:04:04 +0000

Sorry. Gay eros permeated some pagan cultures directly and indirectly two milleniums ago. The notion that history is some kind of liberal progress into utopia is on the wrong side of history. The debate is whether this is on the right side of Judaism and how we would define it.

Commentary Magazine : Who Had the Dirt on Petraeus?

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:44:45 +0000

taking the alternate course, that it at least started as a cat-fight over a guy a la the descent into weirdness that saw a NASA female astronaut driving cross country to stalk her rival, that could explain why the FBI dilly-dallied so long over it. the FBi has said that Petraeus himself is not under investigation--but yeah, there is the angle that that she may have accessed/gone after classified e-mail--but from early accounts the FBI spent time pouring over his personal e-mails to her beats me Ed_EdD!

Commentary Magazine : Who Had the Dirt on Petraeus?

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:07:46 +0000

latest story is she started harassing *another* lady friend of Petraeus (not his wife) and that woman complained to the .... FBI.

Commentary Magazine : Ehud Olmert’s Conspiracy Theory

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:04:44 +0000

Absolutely. And a gay married doctor performing abortions: doubleplusgood!

Commentary Magazine : Petraeus Deserves Thanks, Not Obloquy

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:01:07 +0000

Without a prostate? God forbid. Maybe he used his ... sheesh, nevermind.

Commentary Magazine : Romney's Get Out the Vote Fiasco

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:02:58 +0000

well he shed a proportion of his own base, underperforming McCain--that could be partially explained by the larger demographic and cultural shifts, but not necessarily http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/09/to-our-friends... http://www.redstate.com/thomas/2012/01/11/to-our-... this country could use a principled conservative opposition free of revanchist nativist conspiracy mongering and self-canceling electoral excellent adventures of moderates masquerading as "headline" conservatives....

Commentary Magazine : Ehud Olmert’s Conspiracy Theory

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:03:42 +0000

another Israeli politician piles on: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article... whether Bibi is being accused of being a tool of Sheldon or the reverse this is still cheap domestic Israeli pot-shots, whatever strategic policy saran wrap they drape around their egos...

Commentary Magazine : Romney's Get Out the Vote Fiasco

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:59:59 +0000

he might have run if he ran a political campaign as Obama did and not, in the stretch, a complacent marketing campaign based on the misguided strategy of a victory in the bag, possibly promoted by paid consultants running a skim off the top behind the guileless Romney: ----------- The result of all of these false numbers and inaccurate ground reports is simple: Mitt Romney had no idea what was coming on election day and his false sense of confidence directly translated into how the campaign operated in the closing weeks. In the words of one source, it was a con job. As David Mamet famously said, “If you’re in the con game and you don’t know who the mark is … you’re the mark.” Mitt Romney had no idea what was coming http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/09/campaign-sourc...

Commentary Magazine : Who Had the Dirt on Petraeus?

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:24:12 +0000

that's life, you're riding high in April, shot down in May.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiUqfxFttM