U.S. Threatens to Cut Off Aid to Palestinians if They Go to UN

This is interesting because the other day the State Dept. press spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, was asked about this issue and she said that Palestinian aid is based on the needs of the people, ie. it’s not a carrot or stick. It seems she wasn’t telling the truth. From Haaretz: The United States will stop all […]

The Arab Spring Comes to Israel…

And Bibi Netanyahu is terrified because it’s not Arabs taking to the streets, but the Israeli middle class. Here’s a nice big shout out to the folks in Israel who have managed to get their leaders re-focused on a domestic agenda that revolves around middle class priorities. Good for them. In case you weren’t aware, […]

Washington Post Ombudsman Defends Jennifer Rubin’s Post About the Norway Attack

What is the point of having an ombudsman if all they are going to do is get defensive and rationalize the nonsense that gets printed by their writers/bloggers? So much for accountability. I won’t bore you with a total re-hashing of the controversy, which I wrote about at length when it happened. I was one […]

Anders Behring Breivik’s European Declaration of Independence 2083

This is the first chance I’ve had to actually go read some of Anders Breivik’s, aka Andrew Berwick, 1500 page manifesto against Islam, assimilation, multiculturalism and liberalism. Breivik is of course responsible for the terrorist attack in Norway. You can take a look at it here. The reason I went over and read some of […]

The Deficit Negotiations: Obama Gives Up the Store & Gets Nothing in Return

President Obama is always one step behind. His inability to frame the debt debate early on has created a situation where he once again will be forced to give up everything, including Democratic party principles, in return for a whole lot of nothing. That Obama and his people don’t “get” this, is alarming given we’ve […]

It’s Only Terrorism If The Perpetrator Is Muslim *updated*

Yesterday I wrote about how the media’s response to the attack in Norway changed dramatically after it was revealed that the perpetrator was a White, right-wing Islamophobe who was an avid reader of American right wing blogs. What was initially described as an obvious terrorist attack soon became the work of a “lone wolf” motivated […]

The Israeli Right Has Totally Lost It

At least J-Post lets their racism hang right out there in the open. I’m not even going to excerpt it. Basically, they want to draw attention away from the fact that the Norway killer, Anders Breivik, was a far, far right Islamophobe and Zionist and to the importance of his message- that, in their view, […]

*updated* Neocons & Islamophobic Right Not So Interested in Oslo Bombing Now That It’s Clear It Was Not Perpetrated by Islamofascists

Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up. I have been crazy busy at work and at home and was barely able to watch/listen to/read that much about the tragic terror attack in Oslo. But one of the things I did initially hear is that it must be the result of a Jihadi movement. Now that […]

Obama Maintains Support of Jewish Voters, But “Distrust” Still Remains…

There’s been a lot of fear-mongering in the media about how Obama could lose a significant portion of the Jewish vote as a result of his policies towards Israel. These poll results, however, beg to differ. Even that poll suggests that there still seems to be a lot of distrust in the Jewish community regarding […]

Barack Obama and His Corporate Friends Toss Elizabeth Warren Under the Bus *updated*

Barack Obama is not a progressive and he never was. During the 2008 election he simply told the liberal base what they wanted to hear. He made Hillary Clinton out to be a Republican-lite candidate but in the end, he’s the one that is a DINO (Democrat in Name Only). He gets frustrated when people […]

Glenn Beck is an Idiot

Glenn Beck is in search of headlines and relevance, and thus he is holding his “Restoring Courage” rally at one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem, The Temple Mount/Haram Ash-Sharif. I guess his rambling speech to the Knesset the other week didn’t garner him enough attention. Beck is apparently going to Jerusalem because he thinks […]

Why the Israeli Anti-Boycott Law is a Slap in the Face to Democracy

Israel’s right-wing government passed a law which penalizes any Israeli who engages in, or speaks about, boycotting Israel or the Occupied Territories. For example, if an Israeli urges artists to not have a concert in Jerusalem, that individual could be sued in civil court and under the law, the person bringing the suit does not […]

Israeli Knesset Degrades Itself By Having Glenn Beck Speak Today

Yes, the far-right wing, paranoid, Caliphate-fear-mongerer, sometimes-antiSemite, Glenn Beck, spoke from the floor of the Knesset today. According to Israeli media, he was a huge hit, appealing to the worst political and rhetorical excesses of the far-right in Israel. From +972 …After the short intro, Beck began what was to become a short sermon on […]