Sullivan on Goldberg: Notice something about these two passages. Jeffrey interchangeably uses “Israel” and “Jews” in the paragraph above, when it suits him, which makes anyone’s commentary on Israel at any particular time indistinguishable from some grand ethnic or racial statement about “Jews”. For me and most people, there is, of course, a distinction. There …
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Change Will Come With a Yawn
More info on the DADT study from the Pentagon: A majority of U.S. service members surveyed do not care if the law banning openly gay and lesbian troops from serving is repealed, according to a source knowledgeable with the results of the Pentagon study. Members of Congress are to get an advance look at the …
First, They Came For the Dark-Skinned Hobbits
This seems silly to me: A casting agent working on director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was fired from the production after placing ads in a regional New Zealand newspaper seeking extras with “light skin tones,” according to Agence France-Presse. The casting agent was also reported to have told a prospective background …
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On Nigel Farage
I enjoyed the video John posted of Nigel Farage cutting into the European Parliament. Interestingly, Farage is the head of the UK Independence Party – probably the closest thing the Brits have to a Tea Party. UKIP’s are essentially disaffected Tories with a strong libertarian and UK-first streak, and the party platform revolves around liberty, …
Say It Ain’t So, Joe
Joe Scarborough is about to be excommunicated from the GOP: Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all …
The Warning Bell of Democratic Stupidity
Any sentence that starts with “But some in the Senate” is guaranteed to contain something stupid from Democrats. Here’s today’s example from Ezra Klein: […]House leadership is still looking to hold a standalone vote on the tax cuts for income under $250,000. But some in the Senate — including Chuck Schumer, Bob Menendez, and Claire …
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Elephant v Rhinoceros
Comcast and one of Netflix’s bandwidth providers, Level 3, are in a spat. Level 3 accuses Comcast of adding a charge to carry Netflix traffic on their network. Comcast says, with some justification, that the Level 3 arrangement is in line with its other peering agreements. What bothers me about this disagreement is that it’s …