Month: September 2011

. Labor shakes up Israeli politics (Haaretz) – Shelly Yachimovich promises she will not change: Even after being elected, she does not intend to become a distinguished stateswoman and feverishly draft peace plans. She will...

I kind of wonder who Tom Tancredo is supporting for president. It obviously isn’t Rick Perry, who Tancredo calls ‘Compassionate Conservatism 2.0.’ I doubt it’s Mitt Romney for a variety of reasons,...

. ‘Dutch’ Foreign Minister Rosenthal Blocks EU Position on Human Rights (Der Spiegel) – Rosenthal instructed his diplomats in Geneva to strike a number of formulations from the statement, among them numerous...

I wish Joe Lieberman would just leave already. He’s done enough damage. Now he’s teaming up with Tom Coburn, of all people, to recommend steep cuts in Medicare. This is a guy who thought we should expand Medicare...

There’s something missing from Glenn Greenwald’s otherwise excellent essay on the Wall Street protests and the response to them on the left. And it gets to something fundamental that has divided the left since...