Airport Security: Intrusive and Leaky
A few weeks ago, agents of the Transportation Security Administration at Reagan National Airport stopped my mother-in-law, a very nice and unthreatening 79-year-old in Washington to lobby on behalf of...
View ArticleMitt needs Chris Christie
Many of Mitt Romney’s problems arise from his lack of authenticity. This suggests that he should choose a running mate who conveys a feeling of he-just-can’t-help-himself genuineness. Which is why all...
View ArticleObama has no mideast policy
There’s an old saying that liberals will support armed intervention in a foreign conflict only so long as nothing resembling a self-interest is at stake. If the cause is purely humanitarian — if the...
View ArticleThe zombie question
One question — a question of surpassing, even existential importance — was the subject of not a single debate question or policy paper: Which candidate would be better equipped to save civilization in...
View ArticleO and Israel, apart
Shortly after the United Nations General Assembly voted in late November to upgrade the status of the Palestinians, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that it would...
View ArticleKoch, proudest of Jews
One of the reasons I adored Ed Koch is that he reviewed movies like my grandmother reviewed movies. People may not remember this, but Koch had a long and illustrious post-Gracie Mansion career as a...
View ArticleIs Cory too Jewish?
The question before the voters of New Jersey is a simple one: Is Newark Mayor Cory Booker too Jewish to be a US senator? I bet you didn’t know this was even a question. Before I provide the answer,...
View ArticleGang that can’t scapegoat straight
In the matter of the American Studies Association’s just-ratified boycott of Israeli academic institutions, one must be thankful that the group’s president, Curtis Marez, is something of a dolt. What...
View ArticleEgypt’s Jon Stewart conspiracy theory
And the winner of the annual “Most Convoluted Conspiracy Theory to Emerge from the Egyptian Fever Swamp” prize is the writer Amr Ammar, who alleged earlier this month on Tahrir TV that talk-show host...
View ArticleASA professor’s Israel-boycott backlash
The heretofore-obscure American Studies Association, which recently voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions, quite obviously lives in a sealed room of its own manufacture. Its leadership appears...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s message
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Obama a gift, a copy of “Megillah of Esther,” a scroll that recounts the heroics of Queen Esther in ancient Persia. The scroll tells...
View ArticleOur Afghan timetable for betrayal
The multipronged attack carried out by a Taliban faction in Afghanistan last weekend, including sustained raids in the capital’s diplomatic quarter and on Parliament, was meant, The New York Times...
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