On Sunday evening at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., J-Street opened its first ever-national policy conference. Officially founded over a year ago, the self-proclaimed “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby was birthed amid controversy. While J-Street positioned itself as the…
LONDON — While a unilateral Israeli cease-fire has at least temporarily brought some calm to the recent conflict in the Holy Land, the same cannot be said about the tensions on the campus of the London School of Economics. Since…
Drudge links to a story on The Hollywood Reporter website which has obtained a few pages of Oliver Stone’s forthcoming film on President Bush. Admittedly, we are told that the pages come from a draft of the script and it…
The New York Times has a story today about how savvy Cubans are circumnavigating the obstacles erected by their government to limit access the internet by ordinary Cubans: “Yet the government’s attempts to control access are increasingly ineffective. Young people…
I crunched the numbers at OpenSecrets.org to see who Ivy League faculties were giving to in the Presidential primaries. Democratic candidates received $808,404 in contributions while Republican candidates received just $145,376 in contributions. That means Democrats received about 85 percent…
Stories of Ron Paul’s wellspring of support sound like the stuff of urban legend. Politically inactive citizens suddenly become fervent supporters of Paul after catching a TV segment or Internet video clip. It’s like love at first sight; they pledge…
The Democratic Presidential candidates were out and about Wednesday night in yet another debate. This time the setting was Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, with NBC Meet the Press host Tim Russert moderating the boisterous battle. The biggest news of…
With the recent release of its annual human rights report, Amnesty International is again proving itself useless and feckless, despite some noble goals and the potential to do good. It must be remembered that Amnesty claims to be an organization…
As was painfully obvious from last Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment on John McCain, the Arizona senator doesn’t like to be asked about his age. “I don’t like this line of questioning at all,” McCain said when asked by Scott Pelley…