A pretty fascinating piece in Foreign Policy by Laura Rozen about the current administration’s message to Netanyahu and the rationale behind it: Last night, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told journalists that the Obama administration “wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions,” …
Archives for May 2009
It’s all Latin to me
One wonders if Fred Barnes was really Morton Kondrake’s longtime companion. BARNES: I think you can make the case that she’s one of those who has benefited from affirmative action over the years tremendously. BENNETT: Yeah, well, maybe so. Did she get into Princeton on affirmative action, one wonders. BARNES: One wonders. BENNETT: Summa Cum …
Unpure of Heart and Weak in the Knees
Time to fire up operation leper and throw John Cornyn out of the party: A top Senate Republican is taking aim at recent statements from conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich suggesting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a “racist.” “I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial …
Undercover of the right
Everyone’s talking about this CNN segment where Tom Tancredo says that La Raza Is ‘Latino KKK Without The Hoods Or Nooses’. It’s pretty clear, to his credit, that the CNN anchor, Rich Sanchez, is having none of this tomfoolery. And I have to question the wisdom of going on an anti-Latino tirade….with an anchor whose …
It’s just emotion that’s taking me over
Michael Gerson has written what may be the ultimate anti-empathy manifesto today. It briefly left me wondering what might be next battlefield in the Global War Against Empathy. Then it hit me, at the end of this (quite reasonable) Brooks piece on empathy, which must be quoted if only because of the Two Great Conservative …
Hobby-Farming “Our” Children
There was an Open Thread earlier today where people were talking about teaching — how draining it can be, how different posters had or hadn’t learned to read, write, communicate effectively; and the degree to which “effective teaching” has been reduced to bumping up the percentage of kids who correctly fill out the blanks on …
Open Thread
I’m really not a violent person, but so help me Allah, if I could figure out which one of you subscribed me to updates from David Vitter, I would punch you in the damned neck. Two or three times. If you are going to make me read crap like that, at least have the decency …