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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. I don’t really know what’s goten into Ezra recently, since I’ve never thought of him as particularly interested in Middle East politics, or even the ins-and-outs of American foreign policy, but his sudden burst of posts about “the Israel lobby” coincides quite unpleasantly with the praise ladelled on him by The American Conservative, […]

And here I was wondering if I should post this article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about how Dick Cheney‘s pitch to AIPAC “Garners Few Plaudits”: Cheney’s appeal is part of Bush-administration efforts in recent months to shore up support for the Iraq war in quarters it once took for granted: Republicans in Congress, the […]

AH, THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Anyone who remembers early internet magazines (e-zines!) remembers the early greats of the original boom and pre-boom year, such as The Word, Feed, and @ New York. Today, via Tim Cavanuagh at The Los Angeles Times‘ Opinion Blog, comes this great history of the greatest of them all, the late […]

suffering in Gaza: http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/06/post_700.html the occupation of Gaza http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/09/post_1326.html US backing for the civil conflict in Gaza http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/12/post_2325.html civil war: http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/01/post_2384.html The counter-productive effects of Israeli efforts http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/07/post_778.html our slow evacuation of americans from lebanon: http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/07/post_880.html#003571

300 PROBLEMS. I never like to agree with Dinesh D’Souza on cultural matters, but I’m afraid that we do appear to have a rather clear instance of America’s entertainment industry exacerbating tension in the Muslim world and :

VINDICATION! Just under a year ago, I got into the mother of all blog kerfuffles by calling for greater online disclosure by bloggers. And so today I was thrilled to see that Markos Moulitsas Zuniga‘s site DailyKos has finally come around and listed its contibutors bios and (for the most part) real names, as I’d […]

THE RISE OF THE NATIONAL PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY. I am repeatedly struck by just how much larger the 2008 campaign currently appears than the 2004 campaign. The crowds are bigger–including an unbelievable 20,000 people for Obama in Austin. The fundraising is much bigger–Edwards is going to put up numbers roughly equal to Howard Dean in Q3 […]

READING BETWEEN THE LINES. Matt and Tom Gitlin think “raises questions” financial stories about presidential candidates (on the left!) are bogus. I have a diferent view. I think people still learn something valuable from these sorts of stories; that very often it’s not all what the reporter intended to tell them; and that they have […]

SPECIAL FOR BOB SOMERBY. Via Mickey Kaus, Ann Coulter asks why G.O.P. presidential candidates are distancing themselves from her now: Did any of these guys say anything after I made the same remark about Al Gore last summer?Why not? What were they trying to say about Al Gore with their silence? The answer, of course, […]

OBAMA SWOON WATCH. My friend Michael Crowley at The New Republic was mocking Bossman Bob Kuttner the other day for comparing Barack Obama‘s writing to Thomas Jefferson‘s, among other words of praise. To which I would reply: Have you seen this video at the Obama web site? Twenty thousand people in Texas came out to […]