Barry Rubin offers a look at recent events in an Egypt filled with turmoil: The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has just invalidated the parliamentary election there. The parliament, 75 percent of whose members were Islamists, is being dissolved. The military … Continue reading →
…gives us all a lesson in sophistry.
Continue reading →…Obama is losing significant support among African-Americans, not unlike what’s been happening among Jewish voters. It may be enough to swing North Carolina into Romney’s column. Note that I wrote that Obama is losing support. But I suppose it’s at … Continue reading →
There have been a lot of articles lately about Obama’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. The “private sector is doing fine” remark seems to have been a catalyst, but there have been a host of other indications lately … Continue reading →
Jewish support for Obama has declined 10% from 2008. That’s a not insignificant amount, although it may seem small. But it only seems small if you don’t realize how deeply ingrained Jewish Democratic affiliation is. Also, compared to Obama’s drop … Continue reading →
I’ve been trying to figure this one out ever since it happened. At first I assumed Obama’s remark that the private sector is “doing fine” was a truncated quote. But no, he really did say that, even in context. This … Continue reading →
…should Obama be more like LBJ? Perhaps he should have asked, “could Obama be more like LBJ?” But either way the answer is (drum roll please): NO, because the question is absurd. This is like asking should (or could) a … Continue reading →
President Obama commits the gaffe of calling Romney by Mitt’s father’s name, George: During a speech at the New Amsterdam Theater in Times Square, the president mixed up his Republican opponent with former Michigan Governor George Romney while contrasting their … Continue reading →
…Obama longs for McCain,” says the Washington Examiner headline. The above photo was presciently supplied by Vanderleun at American Digest back on Dec. 2, 2011. But he was joking about the Republican primaries; who knew it would be Obama who’d … Continue reading →
…about that “Polish death camp” remark of Obama’s. According to Powerline’s Scott Johnson, the citation for the medal read that Karski had “worked as a courier, entering the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi Izbica transit camp, where he saw first-hand … Continue reading →
…(and we were, at least sort of) did you know that some of his best friends are? And that he thinks he knows more about Judaism than any past president, because he read about it? By the way, at the … Continue reading →
By now you probably know that Obama has committed another huge boo-boo: he has managed to outrage the Poles by referring to a Nazi death camp in Poland as a “Polish death camp.” The occasion was some scripted remarks during … Continue reading →