Those pesky Florida Joooooooooooooooos: At the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club on Sunday, the fountains were burbling, the man-made lakes were shining, and Shirley Weitz and Ruth Grossman were debating why Jews in this gated neighborhood of airy retirement homes feel so much trepidation about Senator Barack Obama. “The people here, liberal people, will not vote for Obama because of his attitude towards Israel,” Ms. Weitz, 83, said, lingering over

Reuters reports: A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq. “Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll,” said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway,

I hate to thump Andrew over this, as if he’s been consistent about one thing over the years, it’s been that the Clintons are ethically pernicious.  So, when Mrs. Clinton demagogues the vote in Florida, stating that it would be tragic if once again, after the way they were robbed by Bush in 2000, their votes (in the primary) weren’t counted.  It makes Andrew’s gob tingle painfully, in a way

TIME magazine’s Mark Halperin calls it Hillary Clinton’s “baldest” appeal to Florida and Michigan voters.  Fernando Suarez of CBS News calls it a “desperate” ploy for attention to her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates.  TNR’s Jonathan Chait calls it a “shocking gambit” and “simply incredible.”  And of course Excitable Andy is gobsmacked/ nauseated/ heartsick at her “shameless” and “unconscionable” efforts; her poor losing is “so ugly, so feckless, so

“Prairie dogs… Why did it have to be prairie dogs?”  I’m kidding! You know I wouldn’t spoil it for you! 

Feels sad about Teddy, but finally gets to be Massachusetts’ Senior Senator! The Day Lebanon Died Related Sad, really.  It seems not so long ago that we were excited by Lebanese Protest Babes:   And it could have been, too, if the “international community” had . . . ah, well: none of that.  They weren’t even aware of the Syrian reactor that the Israelis took out, were they? No, much

>Comment by Chuck Adkins on 5/21 @ 6:15 pm # Left in my comment section of my Blog. Chuckie, Dan Collins, Jeff Goldstein’s mini-me, is calling you a bad person. This is from a guy who stalks his exes on the internet, calls Glenn Greenwald a faggot, uses the word “nigromancy” as a clever allusion to Obama’s charm, and knows people in his grad school hated him because he wore

At The Atlantic, Megan McArdle asks, “Are conservatives out of ideas?” Her answer, unsurprisingly (to me, anyway) is “yes,” though she adds: There is, however, a nascent optimism in the conservative and libertarian policy worlds. The last five years have been pretty demoralizing. Now I’m seeing more and more people who are actually looking forward to going into the wilderness for a little while, where they can get their heads

At the L.A. Times, Peter Wallsten reports on Barack Obama’s new organizational and outreach efforts in the Sunshine state: The extended fight with Clinton helped Obama build volunteer networks and burnish his get-out-the-vote techniques in less populous general-election battleground states, such as Colorado. But winning Florida’s 27 Electoral College votes will require him to build his campaign machinery almost from scratch. *** The Florida efforts are being replicated nationally, with

Walid Phares.At the same time, the Syrians are reaching out to Israel?  Can that possibly mean that they’d dash the hopes of the “Palestinians” in exchange for the Golan Heights?  Somehow, I don’t find that credible.My suggestion is that US forces might occupy a portion of Syria roughly equivalent in size to Lebanon without a great deal of trouble.  Then we can talk. Related: According to Palestinian Media Watch, the ‘Palestinian’