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Like a good businessman, Donald Trump managed to keep all parties satisfied after his long-awaited and still-cryptic statement on Israel’s settlement expansion policy. Opponents of the Netanyahu government policy read the statement issued by the White House as a note of reassurance, albeit partial and insufficient, that America’s anti-settlement policy is still in place. At…
John Podhoretz, the neoconservative editor of Commentary Magazine, said White House adviser Kellyanne Conway might be a red, but not the Republican kind. I remember when Kellyanne Conway was a conservative, not a Stalinist. https://t.co/MLesVuwIjc — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 24, 2017 Podhoretz, part of the Never Trump movement, was referring to a conversation with…
It was a rocky night for Donald Trump at the third and final presidential debate. According to neoconservative John Podhoretz, it went so bad that even Trump seemed to realize he would never make it to the White House. As the event neared its close, the Republican nominee sarcastically wished Clinton “lotsa luck” in dealing…
Those who follow me online have observed that I don’t usually respond to my critics. I confess: I have a little fan club that hangs out in the Comments section and on my Facebook page, cursing my ancestry and generally whooping it up, and they seem to be having so much fun that I hate…
Did Eric Cantor lose because of his Judaism? Everybody’s been tiptoeing around the question for the last two days, so let’s just come out and say it: Of course he did. That and redistricting. The Virginia Republican leadership accidentally did him in by trying to build him a safer district. They took away some of…
The recent findings of the Pew Research Center study (yes, that again) have left many of us scratching our heads, biting our nails and searching every which way for answers. Some have sought explanation, let alone consolation, in the broad strokes of macro-analysis, others in anecdote and still others in history. The past, as you…
It’s hard to know exactly how to respond to Vladimir Putin’s op-ed essay in Thursday’s New York Times. On the one hand, polls show that most Americans agree with his call to avoid American military engagement in Syria. On the other hand, very few of us want to come out and agree with Putin. Apparently…
Political writer and public intellectual Irving Kristol — a former Trotskyite who would break with the left and come to be known as the godfather of neoconservatism — died Friday in Washington. He was 89, and the cause of death was complications from lung cancer, The New York Times is reporting. Here is an excerpt…
