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AN ISRAELI TAKE. Since we’ve been talking a bit about Jerusalem of late, here’s the latest pronouncement from an Israeli government figure on the question of the city’s future: Israel should turn over Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem to the Palestinians as part of a peace deal with the moderate government of President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s […]

EDWARDS’ POPULISM. corporate power…a corrupt and corroded system… establishment elites…corporate greed…a media that too often fawns over the establishment…greedy corporate powers… the very wealthy…Washington insiders…the oilmen in the White House…special privileges…corporate lawyers…corporate lobbyists…

NOTED WITHOUT COMMENT. The Left Coaster’s Jeff Dilleni: “Hillary shot a duck!” –Garance Franke-Ruta

KID STUFF. Has anyone else noticed how unrepresentatively fecund the men of the G.O.P. presidential field have been? There’s been a fair bit of attention focused on Mitt Romney‘s five boys, thanks in no small measure to efforts to publicize them by the campaign itself, but little attention on the large number of children sired […]

THE GREAT CIRCUMCISION DEBATE. Yesterday young Ezra tried to bait me into the multi-blog circumcision and male sexual pleasure conversation. By today, the bloggers writing about this and related topics (Ross Douthat on smegma, anyone?) had, um, mushroomed to such an extent I feel compeled to say that I can’t imagine any conversation I’d less […]

WAR & EGO. People who weren’t wrong on the war include: Harold Meyerson, Bob Kuttner, and Paul Starr. In fact, The American Prospect held a debate where the same man previously pro-war liberal bloggers now routinely mock for his centrism made the case against invading Iraq. richard just spencer ackerman matthew yglesias ezra klein, joshua […]

THE POINTLESS SYSTEM. Giving credit for educational skills in a foreign nation is giving people credit for being the overclass in highly unequal societies. It is discriminatory against the very people who most want to come to America — people who have no opportunities to succeed in their home lands. –Garance Franke-Ruta

which is so eager to read Clinton’s actions in a negative light that it sometimes seems to be coming at the reader from some alternate policy universe. I mean, just consider the assumptions underlying this Her Way passage: [M]any of the…experts Hillary consulted criticized the concept of energy independence as a “fantasy” or “counterproductive.” David […]

MEDIA MATTERS, HEAL THYSELF. The situation with regard to women at Media Matters is actually worse than Ann Friedman pointed out yesterday. If you look at the people the company has granted “fellowships” to — i.e., hired for the more creative, self-starting roles rather than for posts as company flacks or research drones — you’ll […]

AN APOLOGY TO READERS. You know, it was not my intention to drag my op-ed about Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild onto this site, since it was published in The Wall Street Journal, since I elaborated on some points that I felt needed clarification on my own site, and since this blog didn’t strike […]