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Edwards Struggles to Show the Right Liberal Stripes …
… as he unveils the 2008 campaign’s first sweeping health care plan – and grapples with two campaign bloggers gone wild.
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Clinton: Media-Watcher-In-Chief?
Senator Hillary Clinton is slated to help unveil a new report detailing anti-Israel and anti-Western bias in the Palestinian Authority’s most recently produced textbooks. The report, produced by the non-profit group Palestinian Media Watch, analyzes eight textbooks released at the end of 2006. When: Feb. 8, 11:15 a.m. Where: Russell Senate Office Building, Veteran Affairs…
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If Only Dennis Prager and Other Hawks Listened to Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager is out with his latest column: an attack on liberals for not asking “what happens next.” Insert your Iraq/They’ll Greet Us With Flowers/Mission Accomplished/W./Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld/Neocon-themed punchline here. Or, alternatively, how about something like: What happens next if I write a column saying that Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to take their oaths on…
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A 9/11 Conspiracy? ‘I Would Not Be Surprised,’ Says Tikkun Editor
Rabbi Michael Lerner, the longtime activist and editor of Tikkun magazine, has published an essay saying he is open to the possibility that the American government may have been behind the September 11 terrorist attacks. “I would not be surprised to learn that some branch of our government conspired either actively to promote or passively…
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Hey Peretz, Who You Calling Non-Zionist?
If the American Jewish Committee managed to get The New York Times to retract its use of the word “conservative” to describe the organization, perhaps we at the Forward could at least get an explanation from New Republic head honcho Marty Peretz for his recent assertion that we are “non-Zionist.” Is it because we’ve editorialized…
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Jonathan Miller’s Sideburns
Bluegrass boychick and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Miller is fighting hard against primary frontrunner Bruce Lunsford, who has millions to spend, but plenty of political baggage. Miller has also kept busy defending his sideburns on the campaign trail … by claiming that they’re modeled after Elvis’s hair-do. Hmmm…
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Clinton Looks Over the Horizon
An interesting sidenote in Senator Hillary Clinton’s address to Aipac in New York last Thursday was her discussion of the need to build support among the American public for an ongoing U.S. role in the Middle East. In the last section of her address, Clinton made the case for engagement with Iran – in order…
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Romney Blasts Clinton’s AIPAC Talk
Mitt Romney is out with a statement blasting Hillary Clinton’s call at a recent AIPAC meeting for engagement with Iran. It would be fair to the describe the release as a cheap shot, in so far as it misrepresents Clinton’s argument that engagement would help the United States better understand the regime in Tehran. She…
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In Twist, Peres Must Break Own ‘Law’ To Win Presidency
Poor Shimon Peres. If only Israel’s presidents were chosen by foreign diplomats or Diaspora Jews, he’d stand a strong chance of winning. To Peres’s misfortune, the Knesset elects the president by secret ballot. It is a law of nature in Israel that Shimon Peres loses elections. A corollary to that law says Peres runs the…
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Crisis Over Iran Poses Political Headaches For Democratic Presidential Hopefuls
With American-Iranian tensions mounting, Democratic presidential contenders are facing a daunting political challenge: how to speak out against Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons in a way that appeals to pro-Israel supporters without alienating the party’s overwhelmingly anti-war rank and file. The political tightrope has been on prominent display in recent weeks, as liberal insiders denounced…
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Groups Fear Public Backlash Over Iran
While Jewish communal leaders focus most of their current lobbying efforts on pressing the United States to take a tough line against Iran and its nuclear program, some are privately voicing fears that they will be accused of driving America into a war with the regime in Tehran. In early advocacy efforts on the issue,…
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