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Some would find it laughable. But if this Ha'aretz report is to be believed, Dershowitz has just scored a major breakthrough with Pale...

Hussein Ibish has an interesting piece up castigating the way in which the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab lands has recently emerged. I...

Jewish groups are, rightfully, upset at early credulous media reports claiming that the anti-Islam movie "Innocence of Muslims" w...

Remember that whole thing about how, if Israel and America have differences, they should be expressed privately? Bibi doesn't . As Jeffr...

Honduras appears set to create a series of privately-run cities , complete with their own police, laws, government, tax systems, and immigra...

Like Kevin Drum, when Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" brouhaha broke, I was of the opinion that it would eventually blow over an...

This is a devastating review of Justice Scalia's rather inconsistent and meandering commitment to "textualism" (whatever that...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon sharply rebuked the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for delivering a speech at the non-Aligne...

That the GOP officially wants to keep DC a colony is unsurprising . What's more surprising is that they want Congress to mandate that DC...

Former Obama supporter ex-Rep. Artur Davis' (D-AL, though he's since switched parties) turn to Mitt Romney is well known . I noted a...

Today's pet peeve comes in reporting of public acts of violence, and bystanders not intervening. Generally, some horrible act occurs in ...

Oklahoma City apparently bans wearing clothing that is not supportive of their state's college sports teams . On the list of banned item...

In the wake of Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin's (R) comments that women who are victims of "legitimate" rape don't g...

The US State Department has begun grouping in settler "price tag" attacks as a form of terrorism committed in Israel and Palestine...

Garance Franke-Ruta has three suggestions for how the media can handle repeated campaign lies (such as Mitt Romney's claim that Obama h...

The Sacramento City Council unanimously voted to make Ashkelon, Israel one of its "sister cities" . Ashkelon joins nine other Sacr...

I confess to having similar thoughts to Harold Meyerson : If voter suppression goes forward and Romney narrowly prevails, consider the conse...

There are different schools of thought when it comes to choosing a Vice President. One can pick to reinforce a narrative ("this electio...

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You all gonna be here when I wake up? I was planning on waiting a few more days to write this. It was not something I was looking forward t...