« Previous  |  Next »

Anti-Semitism and the Left: Addendum

For those who have difficulty understanding the provenance of modern anti-Semitism and its intimate relationship with the Left: "Why should the German be interested in the liberation of the Jew, if the Jew is not interested in the liberation of the ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Karl Marx

Jews, the Left and Anti-Semitism

In the last election 75% of American Jews voted for Barack Obama, primarily because he had the most liberal voting record in the Senate and was a minority.  In opposition to his support among the American Jewish population were the less well emphasized ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Alavi Foundation

How Gubbmint Works!

Does anybody remember the reason given for  the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.... during the  Carter  Administration? This is making the e-mail rounds and is simply too good to pass up: Once upon a time the government had a vast  scrap ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  21 Nov 2009

AGW Fraud?

Have the AGW folks have been cooking the books? Do we have a smoking gun? No. A fire at the Colt factory. An explosion at the ammo dump. Three fish just above the keel. Abandon ship. Sauve qui peut. This may be the most important news to date about ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Philip Jones,  University of Virginia,  John Daly

The Senates Attempts to Trump the House

There is now an avalanche of commentary concerning the Senate healthcare bill released with much fanfare by harry Reid last night.  Those in favor of the bill tout its provisions to increase the availability of care to almost all.  Nicholas Kristof ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Harvard Medical School,  U.S. Senate,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  American Medical Association

Thomas Friedman: an Appreciation

I am grateful to Thomas L. Friedman  because he supplies a significant function and gives good value.  For anyone desirous of understanding the most conventional of elite conventional wisdom, Tom Friedman is one of the go-to writers.  His column today ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Friedman,  John Kerry,  U.S. Congress,  Al Gore,  George Orwell

Societal Regression Watch

After a national trauma, there are a number of signs of "large group" regression.  (I will not here go into some of the characteristics of what constitutes a large group; it relates to elements that I have referred to in the past as our tribal nature; ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  University of Virginia,  Slobodan Milosevic,  Environmental Protection Agency

Evaluating Obama's Foreign Policies

President Obama's "kinder and gentler" foreign policies have been roundly assailed by foreign policy hawks and increasingly questioned by those most predisposed to favor his exertions.  This past weekend David Broder, dean of the Washington liberal ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Senate,  Al-Qaeda,  Dick Cheney

Islamist Terror and Psychosis

Since the terror attack at Fort Hood there has been a great deal of teeth gnashing and brow furrowing in the media and among military and government officials trying to make sense of what the President, in his speech, deemed incomprehensible.  When a ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  Walter Reed Hospital,  Al Gore,  Al-Qaeda,  Hezbollah

Liberal Assumptions

Yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg, in the midst of a reasonable post suggesting there are multiple pathways we might take to improve our healthcare system and taking issue with a letter insisting Jews should support the current healthcare plan in the ...

From SHRINKWRAPPED, ShrinkWrapped,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  Joe Lieberman,  Ivy League

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry