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Commentary Magazine : The Elephant at AIPAC

Tue, 5 Mar 2013 23:32:48 +0000

AIPAC is like the character in the old joke about the cattle car en route to Auschwitz who tells another "passenger" who asks for water, "Quiet! You don't want to make trouble!"

Commentary Magazine : Can Jewish Groups Speak Out on Hagel?

Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:43:18 +0000

It's a disgrace to see AIPAC and similar organizations following the reasoning of the old Jew-in0the-cattle-car joke and saying, "Shush! You don't want to make trouble."

Commentary Magazine : Bloomberg’s Quest for a Celebrity Successor

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:39:34 +0000

"There’s a reason that, as Rendell put it to the Times, he often hears it described as 'the second most difficult job in the country.'” Maybe that reason is that it was John Lindsay's reelection slogan – It's the second-toughest job in America – to explain away a first term of dogmatic ineptitude.

Commentary Magazine : On National Defense, Quantity Matters Too

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:39:13 +0000

As Stalin said, and proved with huge masses of ill-trained, ill-equipped troops during World War II, quantity has a quality all its own.

Commentary Magazine : Remembering Jason Dunham

Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:19:28 +0000

The actual standards for naming warships is not as bad as the post implies. Destroyers have been traditionally named, and still are, for heroes and US naval leaders. The first of the latest class (DDG-1000) was named after CNO Elmo Zumwalt and the second after Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor, a posthumous Medal of Honor recipient. Carriers are named for presidents and congresspeople, Lewis and Clark class cargo and ammunition ships are named for explorers. Out of literally hundreds of US warships, only 11 have been named for people living at the time. Naming a nuclear attack submarine (SSN-709) after Hyman Rickover and a sealift ship (TAKR-300) after Bob Hope had obviously apolitical, naval connections. For more information, see http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14158...

Commentary Magazine : Taking the Views of the Voters into Account

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:40:25 +0000

It's a key lesson of effective advertising and marketing communication: what's important to you isn't necessarily important to your audience, and in the marketplaces of products and of ideas alike, you stress the former over the latter at your peril.

Commentary Magazine : Romney Outraised Obama in May

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:01:29 +0000

He's also outspending Obama in June. See http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-outspends-...

Commentary Magazine : Hollande Win Will Boost Anti-Israel Left

Tue, 1 May 2012 23:15:19 +0000

You mean there's such a thing as a pro-Israel left?

Commentary Magazine : Put Palestinian Tactics, Not Israeli Military Justice, On Trial

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:05:01 +0000

"As France’s World War One leader, Georges Clemenceau, said, 'military justice is to justice as military music is to music.'” According to the sources below, the world geopolitical figure who said that was Groucho Marx. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ quotes/g/q100232.html http://www.musicthoughts.com/t/514 http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/848.html

Commentary Magazine : Dudamel is Not Another Toscanini

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:07:07 +0000

No, Dudamel is not another Toscanini. He's another von Karajan.

Big Journalism : Why Were One Rabbi's Unrepresentative Remarks Worth Reporting by the MSM? You Know Why...

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:27:28 +0000

re: Squires comment I didn't say he was infallible. I just said he was newsworthy because he's prominent and that I agreed with his remarks posted today. I neither know nor agree with everything he's ever said, but you know the saying about even a stopped clock...

Big Journalism : Why Were One Rabbi's Unrepresentative Remarks Worth Reporting by the MSM? You Know Why...

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:10:19 +0000

"So, why is the media bothering with him? Well, there is a two-fold answer to that question." Actually, there's a threefold answer to that question. Rabbi Yosef is former Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel and an internationally respected authority on Jewish law. So he's not exactly just one run-of-the-mill, everyday unrepresentative rabbi, as the headline characterizes him. BTW, I have just one word to say about the content of his remarks: Amen!

Big Journalism : Now Why Do You Suppose That Is? Fox News Making More Money Than All Its Rivals, Combined

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:11:39 +0000

"Or is it simply that a sizable portion of the American viewing audience has had it with the bien-pensant, group-think herd mentality of the Manhattan-Beltway cocktail party set, and is voting with its remote controls, hoping to find a place where its intelligence is not insulted and its core beliefs are respected?" Yes