Category Archives: Politics

Are Lois Lerner’s Emails Really Lost? Is Lois Lerner the new Rose Mary Woods?

COMMENTARY by John Steele Gordon June 15, 2014 I wrote on Friday how the IRS, after a full year of stonewalling, sent a letter to Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, saying that a vast trove of emails … Continue reading

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War Was Interested in Obama

PJ MEDIA by Victor Davis Hanson June 16, 2014 Leon Trotsky probably did not quite write the legendary aphorism that “you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” But whoever did, you get the point … Continue reading

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New York Congresswoman Grace Meng: An Emerging Pro-Jewish Voice in Congress

ALGEMEINER by Dimitriy Shapiro June 10, 2014 JNS.org – She may not be flashy, a firebrand speechmaker, or even very well known outside of her Queens congressional district, but despite her brief legislative career, freshman U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) … Continue reading

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Why Benghazi Matters

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Eric Cantor’s loss was not about religion

ISRAEL HAYOM by Richard Baehr June 13, 2014 Ever so gently, the New York Times and other journalistic organs on the Left are floating a phony story that the defeat of Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for U.S. House … Continue reading

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Top Palestinian negotiator rips into ‘discredited, useless’ Abbas

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Elhanan Miller June 12, 2014 In leaked recording, Saeb Erekat compares PA president to Saddam and Assad; says Netanyahu ‘a war criminal’ who’s ‘not worth a bullet’ A leaked audio recording of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb … Continue reading

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US Admits Hamas Unity Government Can Launch Rockets, and Still Receive US Funds

JEWISH PRESS by Jewish Press News Briefs June 12th, 2014 US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said at a press briefing on Wednesday that the US condemns the rocket fire from Gaza, and expects the Palestinian Unity Government and PUG … Continue reading

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A Failure on Many Fronts The Worst News from Iraq

AMERICAN INTEREST Analysis by Walter Russell Mead & Staff June 12, 2014 There is a big harvest of bad news from the country formerly known as Iraq this June 12. The country’s armed forces have collapsed in the north and … Continue reading

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What’s the Obama Strategy? Mosul Madness in a Collapsing Middle East

AMERICAN INTEREST by Walter Mead June 10, 2024 The Greater Middle East moved significantly closer to a total meltdown this week. The vicious civil war in Iraq escalated as one of the global terror movement’s most bloodthirsty factions conquered the … Continue reading

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The Problem with American Jewry

COMMENTARY by Jonathan Tobin June 10, 2014 When it comes to either American politics or Israel, I find myself in constant disagreement with Peter Beinart. I find his approach to foreign policy absurd (his piece published yesterday in The Atlantic … Continue reading

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