September 18, 2008

Jewish People Who Need People (But Not Republican People)

That must have been some swift kick from the leather boots of the Democratic Party to the flabby tuchuses of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which invited and then uninvited Sarah Palin to its protest next week at the UN. JTA provides the sordid details here.

I guess the good graces of the Democratic Party matter more to the Conference than support from the most intriguing and controversial politician -- dare I say, Madame Statesman? -- in the country. The Conference wants people at its event, but the right kind of people, not those icky Republicans whose views and fashions differ by an iota or two from the Style section of the New York Times. By blowing off Gov. Palin, the Conference removed a huge draw for its event. I was going to go, but now -- eh, why bother? If some fellow KTers want to give it a whirl, let's attend in those "I Am Sarah Palin" shirts, waving our lipstick.

Funny, but I don't recall agonies over partisanship two years ago when the Conference held a pro-Israel demonstration at the UN in July 2006. Senator Clinton appeared, and Democratic primary opponents Mark Green and Andrew Cuomo took the stage together (see the picture in my 2006 post for proof). Maybe rivals can appear if they're both Democrats. The Conference is made up, I suppose, of people -- people who need people, just not Republican peeeooople.

I've got an idea: why don't the Sarah Palin fans, with our t-shirts and lipsticks (or, failing that, some other cylindrical objects), hook up with the Neturei Karta folks, who you know will be protesting. Make it a joint protest -- while we wouldn't be sharing any philosophy, we'd be showing the Conference that it's policies are not winning friends among some groups of Jews.

Van | 09/18/08 at 11:18 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 10, 2007

Open Letter to the Dixie Chicks: What About the Terror in Mexico?

Dear Dixie Chicks:

You caused quite a stir when you said you were ashamed to be from the same state as the President. The backlash against your comments caused dark mutterings about suppression of free speech and artistic rights in the U.S. More recently, you spoke out about a murder case in Arkansas -- you are compassionate, and I credit that emotion.

Given your sensitivity to threats to artists and others, I would like to see you speak out against real repression of artists just south of our home state of Texas.

You see, singers there have more to worry about than whether people are questioning their patriotism and forcing them to play in smaller venues.

In Mexico, performers are being murdered. Puts your torments into perspective, doesn't it? According to this Associated Press story,

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Van | 12/10/07 at 10:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 25, 2007

Borders: Viva Che, Down with Bush!

I've written about my exasperation with the Borders book chain before. Now I can extend that griping based on what I saw at the Borders in Fairfield, Connecticut today.

First, the store carries a line of figurines in the "Little Thinkers" series. I realize this is a set and not really a Borders' confection, but still, do the Little Thinkers need to include Einstein, Freud, Jane Austen, W.E.B. DuBois, Marx, Jesus and Shakespeare with . . . Che Guevera? What's his big idea in the world of intellectual discourse? I could see Borders throwing Che in with the others, but it added to the Chesyteria with a Che watch and a bio of him. Why not Milton Friedman or Thomas Jefferson?

So Borders covered the Che crowd downstairs, and then upstairs it had a display to warm the innards of the Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) contingent. It showed an "Out of Office Countdown" calendar for Bush, along with "Countdown to Victory" calendars for Clinton and Obama. Couldn't Borders at least find a "Countdown to Crackdown" calendar for Rudy Giuliani, or an "Impeach Hillary '09" calendar? The display also showed Bushism and similar products -- so predictable, so conventional.

Van | 11/25/07 at 10:39 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 01, 2007

Che 'n Chambers: NYT Can't Help Luvin' Dose Men

Bad, bad boys got heaps of TLC at the NY Times lately. Continuing its wall to wall coverage of all things Che Guevara, the TImes on Oct. 25 ran a thoroughly useless story titled, "Lone Bidder Buys Strands of Che’s Hair at U.S. Auction," with the helpful description of Guevara as "the famed revolutionary and cultural icon" and "Mr. Castro’s most famous and charismatic associate." If I recall, the story made the front page.

Even more ludicrous is the coverage of the arrest of preppy killer Robert Chambers on drug selling charges. On October 26, reporter Anemona Hartocollis just about wet her britches at the very sight of the middle-aged waste case, gushing,

Though he was unshaven, Mr. Chambers’s blue eyes were alert and, at 6-foot-4, he seemed commanding as he entered the courtroom.

Unspoken thought: "Bobby, I want to have your love child!!"

Jennifer Levin could not be reached for comment.

Van | 11/01/07 at 06:48 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 18, 2007

Meeting Resistance

UPDATE: Steven Vincent vs Molly Bingham: compare and contrast.

I saw a "video Op-Ed" at the NYT site, which was a prime example of trying so hard to be non-judgmental about nasty people that you squeeze yourself through your own asshole and out the other side. It is a 7-minute excerpt/spin-off from Meeting Resistance, a pro-insurgent piece of propaganda now playing in theaters around the world.

The short at the NYT site as of 6 PM EST is not loading - must be all the LGF and Hot Air readers checking it out. But you can also see it at Crooks and Liars. And here's the official trailer.

(There will be Q&A with the filmmakers after screenings of "Meeting Resistence" THIS WEEKEND in New York and Washington DC. More info at the end of this post. If you can make it, show up and, you know, ask questions.)

In addition to inserting tendentious quotes from unidentified 2007 polls into footage from 2004, these PR flacks for terrorists take the opportunity to fit in this week's wide misquoting of General Sanchez, demonstrating that - like the NYTimes - they didn't bother to read what Sanchez actually said. However, the Times plays this straight, presenting the video thus:

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Judith | 10/18/07 at 07:05 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 23, 2007

NYT's Handy Talking Points for Ahmadinejad

Friday's NY Times review of Ken Burns' "The War" qualifies as the most unhinged art review I've ever read. It starts not as a review but a cry from a panicked soul angered that the artist did not hew to the reviewer's (and the reviewer's employer's) world view. Get a load of Alessandra Stanley's painful meltdown :

The war was necessary, but is this approach?

The tone and look of Mr. Burns’s series, which begins Sunday on PBS, is as elegiac and compelling as any of his previous works, but particularly now, as the conflict in Iraq unravels, this degree of insularity — at such length and detail — is disconcerting. Many a “Frontline” documentary has made a convincing case that the Bush administration’s mistakes were compounded by the blinkered thinking of leaders who rushed to war without sufficient support around the world or understanding of the religious and sectarian strains on the ground. Examining a global war from the perspective of only one belligerent is rarely a good idea.

Campaign debates, standardized tests and game-show questions all suggest that as the global economy expands, Americans are growing more hidebound and parochial. And now comes a beautifully made telecourse on wartime America under the definitive title “The War.”

Somebody really likes this line of thinking. According to this Little Green Footballs posting, it sounds like Iran's Lider Maximo is picking up some great talking points for Stanley and her pals:

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Van | 09/23/07 at 11:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 20, 2007

Buh bye, fascist troll

I just wanted to let everyone know that my long-time regular commenter, Scottish Leftist Rob, finally went too far, and I banned him. Some will say I should have banned him before, but I don't mind giving fools a lot of rope, Rob and I like a lot of the same music, and usually he was nice. I thought he was someone you could have a friendly political debate with. (Although he hated Cinnamon and Benjamin, for some reason, maybe because they could run rhetorical rings around him without breaking a sweat.)

If you want to know what pushed me over the edge, it was when he smugly advocated genocide. A real George Galloway clone, that one.

(I know the word "fascist" is way overused, but he defends Ahmedinijad and Assad and advocates eradicating half the word's Jews, more than Hitler murdered. So I think in this case the designation is apropos.)

Judith | 09/20/07 at 08:55 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Double standards for military commanders

RELATED: Who owns the Democratic Party.

Via Michelle Malkin's comments:

Interesting commentary on this the from the left, courtesy of Jane Hamsher;

The MoveOn ad said what Democrats could not and survive politically — Petraeus is acting as a politician, doing a politician’s job of spinning and his actions are not above criticism just because he’s got a bunch of ribbons on his chest that George Bush would like to hide behind. And it traveled. To join with the right and start firing arrows into their backs is both destructive from a movement perspective and displays tremendous naiveté about what it’s going to take to end this war.

So if you are John Kerry, with ribbons on his chest, you are a patriot! A HERO! and how DARE YOU - you disgusting excuse for an American if you question him and his patriotisms.

But Petraeus? He’s a politician. He’s scum. He “betrayed us.” - MoveOn said, and the democrats wanted to say, but they couldn’t ….

And another one:

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Judith | 09/20/07 at 01:02 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 15, 2007

On the Mall with A.N.S.W.E.R. and Friends

Scenes from the protests today, courtesy of the WaPo, which is estimating about 7000 attendees by 3 PM.

As a man walked by carrying a sign saying "9-11 Truth Now" a man on the corner asked, "I'm just wondering, what is the truth about 9-11?"

"We haven't been told the truth," the sign-man said. "That's the point."

The onlooker wasn't satisfied. "But what is the truth we haven't been told?" he asked again.

"That's it," came the reply. "We don't know because they won't tell us."

At 15th St. and New York Ave. a band of plaid-wearing demonstrators, most of them with bandanas over their faces, held an impromptu meeting to plan their confrontation with D.C. police.

"Is it OK with you guys if I go over to the cops and tell them we're going to cross the street?" one demonstrator asked his collegues.

Winning their assent, the young man approached a D.C. officer and said, "Are you guys going to slam and beat us if we cross the street?"

"Why don't you just cross with the light, then we don't have to bring in officers to block traffic," said Officer S. Weinfeld.

The demonstrator, foiled in his hope for a confrontation, said "Umm...ok," returned to his friends and walked them uneventfully across 15th St.

Non-sequitor of the day:

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Judith | 09/15/07 at 09:29 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 26, 2007

Apocalypse 'R' Us

Gary Alexander, the Recovering Apocoholic, wrote a chronology of the successive apocalypsi which shaped his consciousness, beginning with his birth just 62 years ago:

I was born in July 1945, the day the first atomic bomb exploded in Alamogordo, New Mexico. That mushroom crowd has haunted our lives ever since. As a teenager, I became convinced the world would end before I was 30. Too soon old…too late smart, I was very, very wrong:

My email list had fun with this topic. IC, who forwarded the link, added:

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Judith | 08/26/07 at 11:51 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 20, 2007

NYT on Chinese in Africa: Massage Parlors, Ho-Hum

A Saturday NY Times article, "Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa," contained a throwaway reference that deserves some scrutiny in what it says, and the so-what lack of interest of the paper in its implications. The passage (emphasis added):

Today, in many of the countries where the new Chinese emigrants have settled, like Chad, Chinese-owned pharmacies, massage parlors and restaurants serving a variety of regional Chinese cuisines can be found; the Western presence, once dominant, has steadily dwindled, and essentially consists nowadays of relief experts working international agencies or oil workers, living behind high walls in heavily guarded enclaves.

I'm all in favor of entrepreneurs, but let's stop a minute to consider the nature of these "massage parlors." It could very well be these are staffed by therapuetic experts in Swedish, deep-tissue and other types of massage, certified and highly trained in this honorable activity.

On other other hand . . .

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Van | 08/20/07 at 06:03 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 17, 2007

Insert joke about Shrub here

Walking around Hoboken with Mary and her hubby, after a few drinks at a local pub, on a balmy July evening. This pickup truck was parked on a leafy residential street.

The letters on the back windshield are those rub-on white vinyl kind, thats why they show up so well in the photo.

I don't think this guy has actually beaten up any Republicans. Because he probably doesn't know any. Or the friends he would never suspect are deep in the closet. And because he's a peaceful live-and-let live kinda liberal guy.

Judith | 08/17/07 at 10:28 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 08, 2007

"Are you still in the Reserves, John?"

John Soltz vs Col. Buzz Patterson:

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August 06, 2007

Mearsheimer groupie

UPDATE: Video of Mearshimer at Kos, below. I guess Little Miss Democracy Arsenal likes father figures....

I was surfing some links propogating from the Sgt. Aguina kerfluffle, and came to this:

The father of Realism...at Kos
check out the one comment.... and here's the next post:

The Middle East Panel was actually kind of...fun

The coolest part about this panel really to me was John Mearsheimer. Juan Cole (of whom I am now a giant fan) did a fantastic job of really making the Middle East accessible, but still bringing in major fire power. I really don’t think people at Kos realized just how influential Mearsheimer is on the entire field of foreign policy, which made it all that more interesting. I have to say, that as someone who’s read everything he’s ever written, I was SHOCKED when people interrupted him, or questioned his judgment on the idea that oil companies did not, in fact, orchestrate the war in Iraq. He is, after all, John friggin Mearsheimer. I’m sure when he speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, people don’t interrupt him. I don’t think the Presidents he’s counseled interrupt him. Mearsheimer was totally into it which was fantastic....

Gag me. I guess Mearsheimer didn't sleep alone that night. . . .

PS. The wonderfulness of Juan Cole.

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Judith | 08/06/07 at 12:59 AM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 31, 2007

The return of Abe Greenhouse

UPDATES at the end - several surprising twists to this story . . .

A friend sent this along . . . .

I realized why the name Abraham Greenhouse, who punched, beat, and threw steel cylinders at a couple following the Morristown anti-illegal immigration rally, was so familiar...

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Judith | 07/31/07 at 06:12 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 30, 2007

Cindy Sheehan vs Gathering of Eagles in Central Park

Kesher Talk roving correspondent Pamela Hall videoed the face-off between Cindy Sheehan's motley crew and the the Gathering of Eagles in Central Park on Sunday. (Our previous Cindy episode took place in midtown Manhattan.) GofE were told to stay away . . . more »

Judith | 07/30/07 at 11:23 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Liberal Derangement Syndrome

Email to Jonah Goldberg at the Corner: Since your column the other day, I've been quoting you in my .signature, which as you know is a four-line tag that gets appended to everything I post in Usenet discussion newsgroups (and . . . more »

Judith | 07/30/07 at 10:50 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 27, 2007

Cindy Sheehan in NYC

[ UPDATE: Gathering of Eagles is going to confront the Cindy Brigade in Central Park on Sunday. Info here. and here. ] Kesher Talk Roving Correspondent Pamela Hall was there when the St Cindy Circus came to town. Lots of . . . more »

Judith | 07/27/07 at 12:18 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 21, 2007

No, we really do support the troops . . .

When confronted with examples of denigrating the military profession in general and our troops in particular, many liberals deny they are culpable. It's the insane lefties who do that, not us. (The most recent examples I've seen of this denial . . . more »

Judith | 07/21/07 at 07:16 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 19, 2007

The Protocols of the Elders of Branson

Richard Branson's formation of a council of "elders" to tackle world problems makes for great marketing, if not effective problem solving. Think of The Elders as a political version of the latest reunion of Cream. The composition of the group . . . more »

Van | 07/19/07 at 06:52 AM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 17, 2007

Acronym Jihad

From the Corner: Dhimmitude on Wall Street First there was Rushdie Rage, then Cartoon Rage, then Pope Rage -- now we have Acronym Rage. Dhimmi Watch (the little brother of Jihad Watch) alerts us to this gem: The newly combined . . . more »

Judith | 07/17/07 at 05:52 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 12, 2007

May 1, 2007: Don Imus Declares, 'I am the Fifth Dixie Chick'

May 1, 2007: Battling to come back from his swift fall from overpaid radio mouth to social pariah, Don Imus has declared himself "the Fifth Dixie Chick," joining fellow humiliated celebrity Michael Richards as a male member of the singing . . . more »

Van | 04/12/07 at 09:09 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Muslim Leftists Love America, Western Leftists Hate America

As I've stressed repeatedly, one of the reasons for my post-9/11 political shift from left to right, and that of many others in the same camp, has been the Western left's attachment to anti-Americanism, even when it lands them on . . . more »

Cinnamon | 04/12/07 at 01:07 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 06, 2007

Tom Lantos supports Nancy Pelosi

Lee Smith wonders what is up with Tom Lantos. In the past the only Holocaust survivor serving in congress has used his time with Bashar al-Asad to send strong messages to a regime that is killing Americans in Iraq, US . . . more »

Judith | 04/06/07 at 07:06 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

"Arnie, It's Alger Hiss on Line 2"

Powerline's item Thursday about the stepson of Alger Hiss defending his dad brought back one of my favorite memories of a career in journalism. It stands as an example of journalism's great appeal to people with an interest in history. . . . more »

Van | 04/06/07 at 07:41 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 05, 2007

Brit Tzedek V'Shalom doesn't impress LA shul

Allyson Rowen Taylor of Stand With Us attended a speech by one of the leaders of Brit Tzedek V'Shalom at Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue, one of the largest in the LA area and pulpit of author Rabbi Harold Shulweis. BTvS . . . more »

Judith | 04/05/07 at 06:12 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 04, 2007

Politically safe hypothetical terror scenarios

[ UPDATE: Michelle Malkin, in her article about Burlington Township High School, refers to a previous hostage training scenario involving fictitious Christian terrorists. Yes, this wasn't the first one. Maybe BTHS got the idea from the Muskegon County MI school . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/07 at 07:42 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

The Special Forces Fetish

My email list (which should probably be renamed the Ex-Liberal Hawks) is having a discussion spurred by this article. Asher: A few weeks ago, I saw an article - I think it was in National Review but I'm not positive . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/07 at 06:19 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 19, 2007

Zombie Captures San Francisco "Antiwar" Protesters in all their Glory

As expected, the streets of San Francisco were home to the usual bizarre assortment of "antiwar" protesters this past weekend. What that actually translated into were communists, pro-terrorists, Jew-haters, 9/11 conspiracists, acid-casualties from the 60s, brainwashed college students, a sea . . . more »

Cinnamon | 03/19/07 at 11:07 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 16, 2007

The Left eats its own again

(Via Solomonia) The word "schadenfreude" was invented for this situation. Tony Greenstein is an anti-Zionist who believes that Zionism is like Nazism, that Zionists helped the Nazis carry out the Holocaust, that Israel, uniquely, is an essentially and unchangeably racist . . . more »

Judith | 03/16/07 at 06:02 PM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 12, 2007

Waskow vs Chesler on the Secular Islam Summit

Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Chesler - once ideological companions and mutual admirers in the 1960s American Jewish Left - are facing off in a public dispute about the Secular Islam Summit where Chesler chaired the opening panel. Chesler - . . . more »

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March 08, 2007

Idiotarianism Made Easy

Via Pommygranate: . . . more »

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March 07, 2007

Darfurism on Purim

Last Thursday was - close your eyes, John Derbyshire - Ta'anit Ester, and in the evening I went to a concert at a local synagogue. The performers were two of my favorite bands - Pharoah's Daughter and Divahn. The lead . . . more »

Judith | 03/07/07 at 11:03 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 06, 2007

Shameless celebrity spooks on parade

Just in case you thought the Wilson-Plame bubble had finally burst . . . On Saturday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St. in New York City, Valerie Plame will make the first public . . . more »

Judith | 03/06/07 at 07:22 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 05, 2007

Stephen Jay Wilson: The Fremont Victim No One Talks About

In my last post, I addressed the recent disclosure that the murder of Fremont Aghan-American woman Alia Ansari late last year turns out not to be a hate crime. This after much hype to the contrary by local Muslim groups . . . more »

Cinnamon | 03/05/07 at 01:36 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 28, 2007

A New Mommy for Dannielynn: What Would King Solomon Do?

What will become of Dannielynn, the daughter of deceased Anna Nicole Smith? Men squabble about who is the father; Anna Nicole's mom strides across the stage; other bit players stand in the wings, ready to burst into the floodlights. King . . . more »

Van | 02/28/07 at 07:31 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 19, 2007

Nashville Cab Jihad

Here we go again: Muslim cabbie tries to kill 2 students with stolen cab Since the whole incident revolved around his religion, the article really couldn't avoid mentioning it. But that's Fox News. Wonder how the rest of the media . . . more »

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February 18, 2007

Yet more "End Israel Apartheid Week" in NYC

Kesher Talk friend Pamela Hall continues her infiltration of "End Israel Apartheid Week"in NYC. Part one. Part two. (includes downloadable flyers from Stand With Us and the David Project) Part three. Part five. Thursday evening we were back in Judson . . . more »

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February 15, 2007

"Digital Night" at "End Israeli Apartheid Week" in NYC

Kesher Talk friend Pamela Hall continues to infiltrate "End Israel Apartheid Week in NYC, along with representatives from Stand With Us and the David Project. Part one. Part two. (includes downloadable flyers from Stand With Us and the David Project) . . . more »

Judith | 02/15/07 at 09:24 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 14, 2007

"End Israel Apartheid Week" at Concordia

"End Israel Apartheid Week" is taking place simultaneously at other locations besides here in New York. Concordia University in Montreal has a history of anti-Israel actions, some of which have become violent; here's the latest: What was touted as an . . . more »

Judith | 02/14/07 at 11:23 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

More "End Israel Apartheid Week" in NYC

Kesher Talk friend Pamela Hall continues to report from the depths of Israel-hatred: Part one. Part three. Part four. Part five. I attended the last two events, (part 3 & 4) Monday and Tuesday evenings as part of the Israel . . . more »

Judith | 02/14/07 at 08:57 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Utah Shooter a Bosnian Muslim

The question I posed yesterday (updated by Judith) about the Utah mall shooter has been answered and sure enough, he's a Bosnian Muslim. About halfway down in a report from KLS.com is this little factoid (hat tip Sweetness & Light . . . more »

Cinnamon | 02/14/07 at 06:18 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 13, 2007

Utah Shooter: Religion of Peace?

Killer identified as 18-year-old Sulejmen Talovic "Police have no motive in the killing." Does that mean he's Muslim? UPDATE from Judith: Via LGF, FWIW: . . . more »

Cinnamon | 02/13/07 at 06:57 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 10, 2007

Another Jewish Radical Goes Completely Insane

I knew Michael Lerner was a Chomskyite idiot. I did not know that he was completely insane. The book in which Lerner’s essay appears is billed as having been “inspired by” David Ray Griffin’s “The New Pearl Harbor,” a seminal . . . more »

Benjamin | 02/10/07 at 01:47 PM | 11 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 07, 2007

Grilling Russert to a Fine Turn

For those of you who are not Plamiacs - all Plame, all the time! now that the Libby trial is going on - there was a delicious moment in the court today. Tim Russert walked into court today, a commanding . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/07/07 at 07:27 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 03, 2007

Who Is George Soros?

Perhaps you've heard George Soros' recent comment at Davos. Though, until the last day or two, the comments have received little notice. But if you have not, here they are: "The United States is now recognizing the errors it had . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/03/07 at 05:50 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 29, 2007

What's Wrong with this Picture?

New evidence of Iran's role in Iraq will be made in Baghdad by the chief spokesman for the multinational forces in Iraq, Major General William Caldwell. The Directorate of National Intelligence worked over the weekend to clear new intelligence . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/29/07 at 02:08 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 24, 2007

Jimmeh at Brandeis

[ UPDATE: Among those barred from Carter's event was the father of Brandeis student Alisa Flatow, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza in 1995. ] After much angst on all sides, Carter finally spoke at Brandeis. . . . . . more »

Judith | 01/24/07 at 11:14 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 22, 2007

Nick Cohen on the Anti War Left

Nick Cohen, raised a principled liberal, where even the decision of what fruits and vegetables to buy was a moral decision, from his own account, did not knowingly come into contact with a Conservative until he was 13. I still . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/22/07 at 11:22 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 13, 2007

Further Thoughts On Psychology Today's "9/11 Effect" Article

Last week, I posted an item about a Psychology Today article titled "The Ideological Animal" (now fully available at the website). The article purports to explain what motivates those of us who made the post-9/11 shift from left to right . . . more »

Cinnamon | 01/13/07 at 01:28 PM | 6 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 12, 2007

Faux Klingons are Running the War!

Congressional Eloquence at its peak: . . . more »

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December 28, 2006

Iraq War Veteran To San Francisco: We Must Win This Fight!

Last year, I wrote a column for SFGate titled, "San Francisco Declares Itself A Military Free-Zone." It was about the city's propensity for anti-military activity and how taken to its logical conclusion, San Francisco might well become a military free-zone . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/28/06 at 11:54 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 27, 2006

Apropos of the MTW conference

Robert Avrech recently had a conversation with an Israeli businessman on a flight back to the US from Israel, and they got into a conversation about the situation. Said businessman opined that the ultra-hassidim in Mea Sharim are as bad . . . more »

Judith | 12/27/06 at 01:45 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 26, 2006

Checking in with Bombin' Bill Ayers

I was going through a sealed bag I keep of historic newspapers yesterday and I found the arts section of the New York Times, Sept. 11, 2001. It had an article about 60s radical Bill Ayers. Geared to the publication . . . more »

Van | 12/26/06 at 08:19 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 22, 2006

Spit and Baby Killers: Echoes of Vietnam

We often hear false comparisons between the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war, but one link that holds true is the anti-military attitude exhibited by the left. U.S. soldiers today are treated as either victims or butchers--whichever one happens . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/22/06 at 02:24 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 21, 2006

Carter, Baker and The Wahabbi Lobby

It's funny how all those Jimmy Carter fans obsessing about the "Jewish/Israel Lobby" seem to have little to no interest in the Saudi Lobby. Otherwise known as the Wahabbi Lobby, this is the group that truly has its tentacles wrapped . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/21/06 at 02:12 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Looking A Tad Less Fearsome These Days, Ain't You

President Ahmadinejad spent part of Thursday mocking President Bush at a speech delivered in Western Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday mocked President Bush and said Iran's nuclear program was a source of inspiration for other nations. His typically outspoken . . . more »

Alcibiades | 12/21/06 at 11:51 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 17, 2006

Carter Refuses to Debate Dershowitz

After going on and on about the alleged lack of debate in the United States regarding the Mideast conflict, former President Jimmy Carter is now refusing put his own ideas to the test. According to the Associated Press: Former President . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/17/06 at 04:05 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism, And Carter's Fans Prove the Point

The barrage of hatemail in response to my Jimmy Carter column, not to mention some of the comments in a blog post on the subject, have proven that anti-Semitism, spurred on by the rise of so-called anti-Zionism, is alive and . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/17/06 at 03:52 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 11, 2006

"Helping someone with their olives is not the only way to save someone"

The Rabbis for Human Rights sponsored conference began in NYC today. Since some participants have come in from Israel/the PA teritories/etc for this conference, they have been touring synagogues, churches, and campuses with their message while they are in the . . . more »

Judith | 12/11/06 at 12:50 AM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 07, 2006

Talking back to Rabbis for Human Rights

I got an email about this presentation by a member of Rabbis for Human Rights, whose position paper on torture I critiqued here. Even-handed Dialogue: Human Rights in Israel and Palestine Sponsored by: St. Bartholomew's Church, Palestinian Human Rights Group, . . . more »

Judith | 12/07/06 at 11:28 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 06, 2006

More Examples of Mob Rule on College Campuses

No sooner had my last SFGate column, "Mob Rule on College Campuses" come out, when bullying behavior reared its ugly head on America's college campuses yet again. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, one of the strongest anti-illegal immigration voices in politics, . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/06/06 at 02:44 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 04, 2006

Lafayette "War Memorial" Dishonors the Dead

Looks like Bay Area Moonbats are up to their old tricks again, erecting false "war memorials" in an attempt to use U.S. casualties in Iraq to undermine the war. As always, they do so under the guise of paying respect . . . more »

Cinnamon | 12/04/06 at 10:37 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 28, 2006

Mideast "Peace Process" Makes for Surreal Headlines

In the surreal world of Mideast "peace processes," in which the media plays along with the charade that there are actually two sides involved, surreal headlines tend to come with the territory. Here's a recent few that come to mind: . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/28/06 at 03:02 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 16, 2006

San Francisco's Anti-Military Values

San Francisco is a town where, as the saying goes, the personal is political. So avoiding politics in any discussion of the city by the bay is no easy task. City officials certainly have a habit of politicizing every aspect . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/16/06 at 05:55 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Talking back to Rachel Corrie's parents

I wrote three weeks ago about the one-woman show "My name is Rachel Corrie", which is playing in NYC through the end of the year, and the ad hoc group which has been leafleting every performance. After Jewish friends stimulated . . . more »

Judith | 11/16/06 at 07:46 AM | 42 Comments | 5 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 13, 2006

Alia Ansari Murder Leads to "Wear a Hijab/Turban Day"

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the city of Fremont (dubbed by some "Little Kabul") is known for its thriving Afghan-American community. Unfortunately, the community has been marred by violence in recent months. In August, Fremont resident Omeed Aziz . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/13/06 at 02:13 PM | 9 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 09, 2006

Pelosi defines "bipartisanship"

Nancy Pelosi: "I told him (Bush) what I said last night -- that I looked forward to working in a bipartisan way with him, that the success of the president is always good for the country and I hoped that . . . more »

Judith | 11/09/06 at 08:05 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

So It Begins....Impeachment, That Is

Despite protestations to the contrary from soon-to-be Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi, talk of impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney has already begun. Never to be quelled by the "right-wing" Democratic Party leadership, Bay Area . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/09/06 at 01:44 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 04, 2006

Fox News to Air "Obession" Special Throughout the Weekend

A one-hour special involving segments of the documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" will air several times this weekend on Fox News. Go to the film's website for the details. The lefty spin at Huffington Post and beyond . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/04/06 at 07:38 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Vanity Fair's Sickening Puff Piece on Haniyeh

In recent years, I've read more romanticized profiles of terrorist leaders in the mainstream media than I'd care to admit. But Vanity Fair's sickening puff piece on Palestinian prime minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh takes the cake. Authored by . . . more »

Cinnamon | 11/04/06 at 02:32 PM | 4 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 02, 2006

Whe Gets the Last Laugh?

[ Judith says: This is a much better suicide bomber costume. ] They really know how to party at the University of Pennsylvania. President Amy Guttman had a delightful time at a Halloween party posing with a student dressed like . . . more »

Van | 11/02/06 at 08:22 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Things I Didn't Know Until Tonight

I went scrolling around the blogs of some people I know on LJ - who are not unintelligent in other contexts - and look at the surreal stuff I came up with: Did you know that there are 800 FEMA . . . more »

Alcibiades | 11/02/06 at 12:42 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 28, 2006

(Pictures of) Scary Wolves Frighten Adults in Greenwich

The school board of Greenwich, Conn., takes seriously its mandate to raise its students as gentle, peace-loving, Gaia worshippers who know that war is bad for children, non-Caucasians, and other beautiful living things. With that in mind, the board has . . . more »

Van | 10/28/06 at 09:30 PM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 26, 2006

"My Name is Rachel Corrie": handing out more flyers

I have written a lot about the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie," which opened in Manhattan a few weeks ago. The controversy behind "My Name is Rachel Corrie" "My Name is Rachel Corrie": All the Rachels "My Name is . . . more »

Judith | 10/26/06 at 11:51 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 23, 2006

The False Comparison Between Islam and Christianity

The e-mail I receive from left-of-center readers in response to my SFGate columns is always revealing. Whether of the frothing-at-the-mouth variety (see Hatemail page) or the earnest and thoughtful, these missives are nothing if not enlightening. The response to my . . . more »

Cinnamon | 10/23/06 at 01:09 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 20, 2006

CNN: The Al-Jazeera of the West?

CNN's airing of portions of the latest Iraqi "insurgency" (as the MSM labels it) propaganda videotapes this past week put them in the realm of Al-Jazeera, the mouthpiece for al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorists all over the world. The fact that . . . more »

Cinnamon | 10/20/06 at 04:15 PM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 19, 2006

When Is It Treason?

Between Adam Gadahn, Jane Fonda and Lynne Stewart, I've been doing a lot of posts on the topic of treason lately. Lest some think that I use the term lightly, in fact my accusations have been quite specific. In the . . . more »

Cinnamon | 10/19/06 at 01:52 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 18, 2006

"My Name is Rachel Corrie": a few more facts

Previous posts about the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie", just opened in NYC, here, here, and here. Excellent roundup about the play at Jewlicious. Corrie's parents travelled to the Palestinian Territories to meet with Yassir Arafat, who presented them . . . more »

Judith | 10/18/06 at 11:15 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

"My Name is Rachel Corrie": handing out flyers outside the theater

[ Welcome LGF readers. If you want to see some serious propaganda by the producers of this play, go here. ] Below is the report about handing out flyers on opening night of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" in NYC. . . . more »

Judith | 10/18/06 at 06:01 PM | 21 Comments | 6 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Apple Mecca redux

Apple opened a new store in May, on 5th Avenue in NYC. I posted about it in the construction phase and noticed it looked a lot like another large cubic icon beloved by millions of people. Always a few months . . . more »

Judith | 10/18/06 at 05:38 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Lynne Stewart Is a Traitor

Yesterday's news that defense attorney Lynne Stewart got off with a slap-on-the-wrist sentence shows what happens when terrorism cases are tried in civilian courts. For Lynne Stewart was no mere useful idiot of the left, but rather an active player . . . more »

Cinnamon | 10/18/06 at 12:09 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Terrorist enabler Lynne Stewart is sentenced

Lynne Stewart was sentenced to prison yesterday for assisting her former client - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman - to continue his terrorist activities after he was put behind bars. Last week we noted the rallies planned by Stewart's fan club and . . . more »

Judith | 10/18/06 at 12:47 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 17, 2006

"My Name is Rachel Corrie": All the Rachels

The original US producer of the new off-Broadway run of the London hit "My Name is Rachel Corrie" wanted to "contextualize" the play by providing for structured discussion, but the UK producers refused and the production languished until taken up . . . more »

Judith | 10/17/06 at 10:28 PM | 4 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

The controversy behind "My Name is Rachel Corrie"

We wrote about the attempt this spring to bring this polemical monologue to New York, from its wildly popular run in London. The American producer got cold feet, the British producers claimed that the arts community version of the Israel . . . more »

Judith | 10/17/06 at 07:34 PM | 1 Comments | 4 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 15, 2006

The return of Charlotte Kates

Jewlicious posts an email from a woman who went to college with sociopathic culture-shopping chameleon Charlotte Kates, who was such a scary advocate for the Palestinian cause that the Arab students in her ISM chapter left and formed a . . . more »

Judith | 10/15/06 at 08:25 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 12, 2006

Introducing the Lynne Stewart Prison Film Collection

As lawyer Lynne Stewart prepares for a stretch in the Big House, we at Kesher Talk want to help her in any way we can. Fortunately, many fine movies have described with great detail and accuracy the challenges and, yes, . . . more »

Van | 10/12/06 at 11:21 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Help see Lynne Stewart off to prison

In the previous post about the lastest embarrassment from Columbia University, I noted that the anti-Minutemen protestors from last week's brawl held a press conference flanked by representatives of the National Lawyers Guild (former professional association of convicted terrorist-enabler . . . more »

Judith | 10/12/06 at 01:08 AM | 5 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 10, 2006

Asking Tough Questions...

Alcibides' recent post on Bill Maher and Chris Matthews aroused certain emotions in me. One of them, naturally, was disgust and contempt for the self-martyrdom inherent in Matthews' obvious adoration of himself, but another was a basic sense of things . . . more »

Benjamin | 10/10/06 at 05:38 AM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 09, 2006

Mohammed is Magic

Via PJ Media:. . . . if you’re a comedian, write a set about those crazy Jews, Lesbians, Hindus, Blacks, Christians, Whites, Asians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Just when you get to the Muslim part, tell the audience you can’t go . . . more »

Judith | 10/09/06 at 12:00 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 05, 2006

Looking back at Moonbat City at Ground Zero

Cinnamon just posted about the inappropriate carnival-like atmosphere at the WTC Ground Zero site. Jeff Jarvis - who was on a PATH train on its way to the WTC when the planes hit - was even more upset:I had to . . . more »

Judith | 10/05/06 at 10:57 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 03, 2006

The politics of one more ageing-hippy supergroup

I'm not a fan of stadium-sized multimedia extravaganzas by superannuated sixties groups, so I'm glad I didn't even hear about this one.A couple months ago, the CSNY tour came through here. While the first half of the concert was a . . . more »

Judith | 10/03/06 at 09:54 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 07, 2006

Flying while Hassidic

Karol links to this story about passengers being weirded out by an orthodox Jew davening on a plane. The airplane was heading toward the runway at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport when eyewitnesses said the Orthodox man began to . . . more »

Judith | 09/07/06 at 09:50 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 23, 2006

How (Not) To Negotiate With Terrorists

I am going to post this entire post in case this guy's blog goes away, since it appears to be a new one. (h/t Pamela.) This brief blog entry takes you through a series of negotiations over time between peacemakers . . . more »

Judith | 08/23/06 at 01:12 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 14, 2006

Operating behind enemy lines

Via Solomonia: The SF Weekly profiles Lee Kaplan, whose avocation is harassing pro-Palestinian rallies and ISM conferences. (We wrote about Kaplan's activities earlier this year.) A moderately successful entrepreneur, Kaplan became radicalized by a political encounter that was so egregiously . . . more »

Judith | 08/14/06 at 07:28 PM | 14 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

A View from Britain: The Peace Party Ain't What It Used To Be

[ RELATED from Judith: Scott Johnson relates a similar slow conversion by author William Shawcross, who reconsidered his support for the anti-Vietnam War movement, after the boat people and the killing fields made it clear that he had been "far . . . more »

Alcibiades | 08/14/06 at 04:14 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

For the thousandth time - no, Israel did not commit war crimes

If you stroll through the comment threads of the past 10-15 posts here, you can watch me being a broken record (obscure metaphor from the days of vinyl), as several trolls (three of whom had the same IP address) kept . . . more »

Judith | 08/14/06 at 11:16 AM | 12 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 10, 2006

I Question the Timing

Is the British So-Called Terror Plot a Karl Rove Plan? In order to help Joe Lieberman win the Senate race in Connecticut against Ned Lamont. Because the timing is really suspicious. ***** Come on! You just know someone on Kos . . . more »

Alcibiades | 08/10/06 at 09:02 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Those Lamonts: Does the Nut Fall Far From the Tree?

Students of Soviet history felt a shiver of delight upon learning of the family connection between class traitor Ned Lamont and his grandfather, Stalinist toady Corliss Lamont. [Correction: Corliss was Ned's great-uncle. I stand corrected.] My KT fellow-traveler Alcibiades ably . . . more »

Van | 08/10/06 at 12:20 AM | 8 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 07, 2006

We Go Together..Like the Fire That Needs the Flame

Londoners demonstrate their support for Hezbollah: Walid Phares: “The vast majority of intellectuals still live on a pre 9/11 planet. They refuse, even after the rise of democratic movements and dissidents in the region, to acknowledge that the jihadists are . . . more »

Alcibiades | 08/07/06 at 09:52 AM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 04, 2006

Reading Castro's Will: I Bequeath My Rectum to Cindy Sheehan

September 1, 2006: Of all the surprises that followed in the wake of the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from the euphemistic "intestinal bleeding," perhaps none was bigger than the details of his will. Revealed at a national telecast . . . more »

Van | 08/04/06 at 04:57 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 31, 2006

Foxman calls for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson

Mad Mel update. Via Jewlicious: As it says in the Talmud: nichnas yayin, yotzie sod (Lit. in goes wine and out come secrets.) But this is silly. I generally think Foxman is a good guy and most of his targets . . . more »

Judith | 07/31/06 at 11:56 AM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 24, 2006

New Frontiers in Liberal Self Delusion, Here and Abroad

On the State Level, in Britain: Britain has just decided not to go ahead with legislation that would make forced marriages in Britain illegal. Seems like a pretty good law to mandate. So what is holding them back? "Fears that . . . more »

Alcibiades | 07/24/06 at 12:19 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Pot. Kettle. Black. For Daily Kos.

This is the first blogosphere kerfluffle in a while on which I have an opinion. Here's my opinion: What's funny about the Daily Kos diaries is that these guys constantly castigate Charles Johnson for LGF comments, saying he is responsible . . . more »

Judith | 07/24/06 at 11:15 AM | 6 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 22, 2006

Latest upcoming Israel rallies

Singing "Hatikvah" at the Columbus OH rally for Israel: J-Blogosphere has umpteen listings of pro-Israel rallies all over the world, in alphabetical order by city, including reports and multimedia from previous rallies. Ours below are in chronological order, with upcoming . . . more »

Judith | 07/22/06 at 03:14 PM | 1 Comments | 5 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 19, 2006

This week's pro- and anti-Israel rallies

I got most of the following info from this and this LGF thread. Also huge list of rallies sponsored by Stand With Us. I'm going to list the upcoming rallies first, in chronological order, then link to pix from previous . . . more »

Judith | 07/19/06 at 06:08 PM | 10 Comments | 8 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 18, 2006

Anti-Israel demo in NYC needs a counter-protest

If you want to counter-protest the anti-Israel demo this afternoon, you better get on it, it starts in an hour and a half. (My apologies for not posting this sooner, my life got in the way.) Demonstration at Israeli Mission . . . more »

Judith | 07/18/06 at 02:59 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 07, 2006

The Other Side of the Mountain

I learned yesterday that Jane Hamsher, the proprieter of Firedoglake, a popular far leftist blog, is (or was - now she appears to be a blogger) a Hollywood producer. Doesn't that just explain so much! Such as her ability to . . . more »

Alcibiades | 07/07/06 at 11:04 AM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 06, 2006

Counter-protest opportunity

These "from the river to the sea" folks are going to be in the UN neighborhood today. There will be at least a few Protest Warriors engaging in shouting matches with them. A CALL TO ACTION: DEMONSTRATION AT THE UN . . . more »

Judith | 07/06/06 at 02:37 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 01, 2006

Yet one more anti-Israel protest

Turns out the A.N.S.W.E.R. et al protest in front of the Israeli consulate was yesterday afternoon. My informant confused it with the protest in front of the NYTimes, scheduled for July 10. So many protests, it's hard to keep track.... . . . more »

Judith | 07/01/06 at 10:32 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 29, 2006

Friday, June 30: Counter-protest in front of Israeli Consulate, NYC

UPDATE: NOT HAPPENING TODAY AFTER ALL - WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED. (Via email) I don't know of any formal counter-protest planned, but if you can get over there with a sign, you can stand across the street from these guys . . . more »

Judith | 06/29/06 at 10:43 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 28, 2006

Isn't That Special

We're a little late on this news, but speaking of Gaza: The infamous Rachel Corrie play finally has a home in NYC. A play about a young American student who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza will open . . . more »

Alcibiades | 06/28/06 at 09:33 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

And Larry David should play him in the movie

While shooting the shit with Andrew Lazarus in this thread, it occurred to me that Michael Berg is a Don DeLillo character, don't you think? . . . more »

Judith | 06/28/06 at 12:02 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 26, 2006

The Awad NGO conglomerate's diversified offerings satisfy all your social activism needs, from conflict tourism to replacement theology

When I initially wrote this post about a useful idiot college student, I didn't know that by connecting the dots I would end up describing a sophisticated multi-pronged effort to delegitemize Israel - most aspects of which I was already . . . more »

Judith | 06/26/06 at 12:14 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 23, 2006

Lovin' and Sizzlin' With Debbie Schlussel

Columnist Debbie Schlussel stirred up a hornets' nest of rage with her posting yesterday on American women who go online to date, mate, and replicate with green-card hungry Middle Eastern men. Her essay, "Ticket to Ride: Gullible American Chicks are . . . more »

Van | 06/23/06 at 10:12 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 21, 2006

Those Darn Kos Kidz

The Onion has highlights from the Yearly Kos Convention, including "Special booth where guests could pay $5 to win a political argument against Joe Lieberman." (via Snarksmith) In the manner of P J O'Rourke, Matt Labash takes you to Las . . . more »

Judith | 06/21/06 at 12:15 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 19, 2006

Rock Lobster

This is so Austin. . . . more »

Judith | 06/19/06 at 07:12 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 15, 2006

Tremble, Americans, Before the Wrath of Europe's Educated Elites

[ UPDATE from Judith: Tigerhawk dissects the Pew poll and finds some good news. ] The Pew Research Center released a poll recently that showed that the image of the U.S. in the world is sinking fast. Sure, they loved . . . more »

Van | 06/15/06 at 01:16 PM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 13, 2006

Handy Leftist guide to understanding evil

I'm sick in bed and haven't had the energy to post much, but synchronistically my Anonymous ex-Liberal Jewish Friend who wrote this piece has sent me something for the blog. Thanks, AxLJF, for helping me out here. Here you go: . . . more »

Judith | 06/13/06 at 03:19 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Someone got a coal in his stocking

Aaaaaannnnnd . . . . he's still spinning! Jason Leopold hangs on grimly to his Rovian theories. You might think this is a parody, but check out the comment threads on the anti-Bush sites. Hell, check out the posts themselves. . . . more »

Judith | 06/13/06 at 02:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 24, 2006

One more fake soldier

Yesterday the scuttlebutt was about whether Jesse MacBeth had lied about his special training, awards and rank. Today comes the news that Jesse MacBeth was never in the army at all, joining Micah Wright in the pantheon of fake soldiers . . . more »

Judith | 05/24/06 at 12:20 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 16, 2006

The Chomsky Video

Europe's favorite public intellectual, Noam Chomsky, met with Hizbollah last week. Memri has the video. . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/16/06 at 04:38 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 14, 2006

Thrown to the Wolves

The sleazeoids are out and about this weekend. First Michael Schiavo and his TerriPAC, and now a campaign to discredit Dutch MP and challenger of Islamism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. After a lecture tour in the US, Ali has come home . . . more »

Judith | 05/14/06 at 12:44 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 06, 2006

My email list is too much fun

Ben: Sometime last week, I encountered for what must have been the one millionth time the tiresome complaint that our president ignores dissent. I like to dissect and analyse, so I got to thinking, what does it actually mean, to . . . more »

Judith | 05/06/06 at 09:14 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 05, 2006

Genus hawk

Dear Soft Thinkers of the Left [says Warren Bell] I am going to save you some time. You no longer need to email me every time I take some position in favor of the War on Terror , the invasions . . . more »

Judith | 05/05/06 at 07:54 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 04, 2006

Did Italian Communists Help Iran Coordinate the Murder of Italian Troops in Iraq?

Stefania, at Publius Pundit, is reporting that the Italian Intelligence overheard telephone calls coordinating an attack on Italian soldiers between Italian communists and Islamists. Italian communist groups helped kill 3 Italian soldiers in Nassirya I reported about here. An article . . . more »

Alcibiades | 05/04/06 at 11:33 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 03, 2006

Feminist utopias

News flash! Saddam Wasn't a Feminist. Well, duh, you might say. But some on the left have already started to spin Saddam's Iraq as a time of equal opportunity for women. This includes equal opportunity to be falsely imprisoned, tortured . . . more »

Judith | 05/03/06 at 09:27 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 25, 2006

What's More Lingual than Multilingual?

Ali G. interviewing Noam Chomsky weirdly enough, comes to a conclusion. [ Hat Tip: Normblog] . . . more »

Alcibiades | 04/25/06 at 03:57 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 18, 2006

Guess Who Is Coming to the Faculty?

Here's a tidbit to turn the stomach right before the final days of the holidays. Guess who Yale is thinking of appointing as as Faculty in the Middle East department? Yale University is on the verge of offering a faculty . . . more »

Alcibiades | 04/18/06 at 06:52 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 15, 2006

Reality check

A bit of low comedy via LGF: Newly freed pacifist: I am learning many things from my captivity, and have a universe of things to be grateful for. Among them is a new and deep appreciation for the women and . . . more »

Judith | 04/15/06 at 09:09 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 01, 2006

Clinton and the Art of the Lie

Clinton: I would be prepared to shake hands with Hamas As the United States on Friday ordered its representatives in Israel and throughout the world to cut off all contact with any members of the PA, Ex-President Clinton gives Hamas . . . more »

Alcibiades | 04/01/06 at 11:36 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 30, 2006

More Fear of a Jihadi Planet

And you thought the Motoon kerfluffle was a) over, and b) a kerfluffle. But no. Dominos continue to fall. . . . more »

Judith | 03/30/06 at 12:38 AM | 4 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 20, 2006

Morally Bananas

Below, Van writes of a new study by a Harvard led team of Human Resources researchers who worry that problems may arise from employees who are biased and don't even know it. [I]t is entirely possible that you and your . . . more »

Alcibiades | 03/20/06 at 05:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Suppress Without Mercy the New Trotskyites (in HR)

An article in HR Magazine last month, "Detecting Hidden Bias," is a most intriguing read. The subhead deftly captures the story's essence: "You may not see it, but it’s probably lurking among your managers—and perhaps even in you." The article . . . more »

Van | 03/20/06 at 10:00 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 09, 2006

PARODY: MTV's "Spring Break Gitmo" Names Cindy Sheehan as Guest Bachelorette

MTV's smash new show, "Spring Break Gitmo," will feature Cindy Sheehan as its first bachelorette in its "Terrorist Dating Game" segment. In the first episode, three terrorist-bachelors will battle one another to win the affections of Cindy, along with valuable . . . more »

Van | 03/09/06 at 07:56 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Speaking Out: A Letter to the Editor on the Cartoon Jihad

In February, the Stamford Advocate ran a column by editor Joe Pisani on the Mohammed cartoon riots. The column is not available online, so KT readers cannot enjoy his garbled thinking. Fortunately, the Advocate ran my letter under the headline, . . . more »

Van | 03/09/06 at 04:36 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 17, 2006

Stephen Holden Reviews Sophie Scholl

The New York Times Never Fails To Disappoint Ten days ago, I pointed to the trailer of Sophie Scholl, this year's German nominee for best foreign film, as a movie that looked compelling. It's the story of a young German . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/17/06 at 09:41 AM | 5 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 16, 2006

Time Waster

Things You Learn from Reading The Huffington Post: Apparently, not only was Cheney, um, dead drunk when he shot Whittington last Saturday - that appears to be the Democrat legal conventional wisdom at the moment - but he and Whittington . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/16/06 at 09:19 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 13, 2006

Not That Envelope Please

Protesting the academy: there's a petition to protest the nomination of Paradise Now - the European financed, pro Palestinian film glorifying suicide bombing: An anonymous on-line petition to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which so far has . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/13/06 at 12:30 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

PARODY: Iran Announces Holocaust Cartoon Festival; Frank Rich to Serve as Judge

The Iranian government has announced the rules for its much-anticipated Holocaust Cartoon Festival, details here. That's the fact. Here's the fantasy: In a related development, the New York Times columnist and cutting-edge social critic Frank Rich has enthusiastically signed on . . . more »

Van | 02/13/06 at 06:34 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 12, 2006

"The Vagina Monologues:" Secret Weapon in the Struggle Against Terror

Only 48 hours remain until Valentine's Day, and the excitement is building. Love is in the air -- actually, that's the smell of burning Valentine's Day cards, courtesy of . . . oh, take a guess. First they came for . . . more »

Van | 02/12/06 at 08:12 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 10, 2006

Mugabe eats crow

A textbook case right out of Thomas Sowell or Amy Chua: President Robert Mugabe has begun to reverse his "insane" land grab and offer some white farmers the chance to lease back their holdings in Zimbabwe. With the fastest shrinking . . . more »

Judith | 02/10/06 at 02:36 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 01, 2006

From the annals of the absurd

In case you all wanted to know, "what really happened" to Cindy "Get the troops out of occupied New Orleans" Sheehan at the SOTU last night because you don't trust the " lies from the police and distortions by the . . . more »

Alcibiades | 02/01/06 at 03:35 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 11, 2006

Counter-counter recruiting fun

Rona and Mark (whose IDF Diary is being serialized on this blog) joined Protest Warrior to protest a protest against military recruiters. From Rona: We arrived at Washington Square Park at 2:30pm to find two old hippies standing by the . . . more »

Judith | 01/11/06 at 09:27 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 09, 2006

Streaming Ritter and Hitch

Remember the debate between Christopher Hitchens and Scott Ritter that we couldn't get to because of the transit strike? You can listen to it here. . . . more »

Judith | 01/09/06 at 11:35 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 07, 2006

Theatre of the Absurd!

With the dramatic downturn in Sharon's health, the last few days have been particularly grim. So here's a change of pace: Which of These Stories Is Actually From Scrappleface? Though it's an unfortunate fact that not all of these items . . . more »

Alcibiades | 01/07/06 at 12:30 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 03, 2006

The positive side of the Palestinians

One more bit on preening kidnap "victim" Kate Burton (via Bloghead): I was aware there was a risk and still took the chances and put my parents at risk. In retrospect I think I shouldn't have done that, but I . . . more »

Judith | 01/03/06 at 08:59 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 23, 2005

Ritter and Hitchens

Four of us were going to take the train up to Tarrytown to see Christopher Hitchens debate Scott Ritter this week, but the NYC transit strike prevented that. Half of us had no way to get to Grand Central Station, . . . more »

Judith | 12/23/05 at 04:18 PM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 19, 2005

Welcome to the RINO Carnival

Welcome to the 20th RINO Sightings Carnival! (RINO sightings is cancelled for Christmas/Hanukkah week, and returns January 2nd at Louisiana Libertarian.) (You can check out other carnivals at the uber-carnival site, and submit posts to any of them at . . . more »

Judith | 12/19/05 at 09:31 AM | 6 Comments | 12 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 16, 2005

Okay, I see more cluepons are needed

Any blogger with an interest in foreign policy who completely ignores the the Iraqi elections or sneers at them because their success challenges your agenda, needs to get a clue. So feel free to copy the cluepon from the previous . . . more »

Judith | 12/16/05 at 07:40 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Working on mysteries without any clues

A friend sent me this cluepon a while back and I've been saving it for the right occasion. I am donating this cluepon to two people who were at the same luncheon, in the spirit of harmony and reconciliation. Like . . . more »

Judith | 12/16/05 at 07:16 AM | 1 Comments | 5 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 15, 2005

Revolutionary narcissism

File this one under the same heading as "why weren't any Iraqis on the podium at any of those huge antiwar rallies of the past three years?" I mean, oppressed peoples can be so uncooperative. Here we are trying to . . . more »

Judith | 12/15/05 at 09:10 AM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 04, 2005

Rumble in the suburbs

Christopher Hitchens continues to harry the useful idiots of the antiwar establishment by debating Scott Ritter at the Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. on December 20th. This location will attract urbane moneyed moonbat instead of scruffy urban moonbat. Will the . . . more »

Judith | 12/04/05 at 03:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 03, 2005

The Dowd Uncertainty Principle

Some people ask if Maureen Dowd is necessary? Others - like my occasional correspondent Alex Bensky - ask if Maureen Dowd exists:Judith, haven't you caught on yet? There is no "Maureen Dowd;" the construct is just an elaborate joke played . . . more »

Judith | 12/03/05 at 10:42 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 02, 2005

Michael Moore: the gift that keeps on giving

F911 is turning into a fruitful source of parody. I posted earlier about the imagined Ken Burns/Moore collaboration Fahrenheit 1861. Leaping to an even earlier para-historical period: Fellowship 9/11 is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination of the Aragorn . . . more »

Judith | 12/02/05 at 12:33 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 30, 2005

Fahrenheit 1861

What if Ken Burns and Michael Moore collaborated on a documentary?(via Crossing the Rubicon) (This is almost as funny as the Negro Space Program . . . )  . . . more »

Judith | 11/30/05 at 07:50 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 05, 2005

We Can't Have That Now, Can We

Oh they feel "left out." And I imagine their feelings were hurt, too. Well, then, by all means, let them help control the internet! Kofi Annan, laying out his best argument as to why America should cede control of the . . . more »

Alcibiades | 11/05/05 at 10:26 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 02, 2005

Why the hell not?

A world-wide liberal poll named Noam Chomsky, Kofi Annan, and George Soros, among others, as most desired to form a world government to rule over us. (Are we surprised?) Right Wing News solicited a response from a number of bloggers, . . . more »

Judith | 11/02/05 at 05:05 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 28, 2005

How to turn silk purses into sows' ears

Media Research Center has just released a thorough study on the US news media treatment of the Iraq War, and yes, it's extremely biased toward pessimism. Any optimism from Iraqis and US military undermines the picture the MSM is trying . . . more »

Judith | 10/28/05 at 02:30 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 27, 2005

In the Best Tradition of British Irony...

...American Joe Wilson deadpans...Leak indictments would be 'a sad day,' Wilson says Uh huh. Wilson said Wednesday he took little comfort that the men he believes have engaged in a campaign of character assassination against him for the past two . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/27/05 at 10:49 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 21, 2005

A Cantata For Liebowitz Rachel

A play and the revival of that play all in a space of mere months isn't enough to celebrate the wonder that was Rachel Corrie. Now she rates a cantata, too! Can sainthood be far off? On 1 November the . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/21/05 at 10:34 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 07, 2005

God Speaks to Bush, Encore Performance

[UPDATE: Apparently this story is two years old. ] [UPDATE II: I wonder if the BBC, or the Guardian or the independent know that Nabil Shaath also reported about the 500 Palestinian martyrs massacred by the Israelis at Jenin? Course, . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/07/05 at 12:41 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 06, 2005

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

And speaking of God, or that is to say, God speaking to us, apparently President Bush confessed to Nabil Shaath, the Foreign Minister of our friend Abbas over in Gaza, that God speaks to him: Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush . . . more »

Alcibiades | 10/06/05 at 11:23 AM | 4 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 29, 2005

5 Iraqi Anglican Church Leaders Missing, Presumed Dead

Ten days ago, several of the Bishops of the Church of England published a proposal for the leaders of the Anglican church in Britain to get together and apologise on behalf of their nation for the Iraq war. In the . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/29/05 at 10:08 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 28, 2005

The ignorant brainwashed proletariat resists re-education!

Not only is the Moronic Convergence diverging, it continues to be deaf and blind to the people whose benefit is presumably its rationale. We saw this glaringly in evidence during three years of protests against invading Iraq, which not only . . . more »

Judith | 09/28/05 at 02:33 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

DC protest loose ends

Previous entries about DC antiwar and pro-soldier protests here, here, here, here, here. WaPo covers the counter-protest. [ UPDATE" David Adesnik - who promised us the results of a little quiz - hasn't posted them yet but has other good . . . more »

Judith | 09/28/05 at 12:10 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 27, 2005

More pix from the DC protest

The last entry showed the counter-protest: the Gold Star Mothers, Protest Warrior, and various pro-democracy Protest Babes. You can view all of Mark's photos here. I just picked out the ones I liked best. Now we return you to our . . . more »

Judith | 09/27/05 at 01:57 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Pix from the counter-protest

More DC protest stuff here: Rona and Mark went to DC. Mark took lots of photos of both antiwar protestors and those who opposed them. Rona comments. (All photos copyright by Mark Kempton) Below are some counter-protestors; A.N.S.W.E.R.-bots and fellow . . . more »

Judith | 09/27/05 at 12:56 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 26, 2005

Code Pink harasses wounded soldiers

More protest stuff here. [ UPDATE: Another report on the Code Pink/ Walter Reed protests, with lots of pix. Also, Code Pink has been leafletting the Walter Reed neighborhood and trying to sic the police on the pro-soldier protestors] A . . . more »

Judith | 09/26/05 at 09:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

The Moronic Convergence Diverges

More protest stuff here. [ UPDATE: Christopher Hitchens calls out the NYTimes for whitewashing the A.N.S.W.E.R./UFP&J agenda. ] The antiwar coalition is beginning to fray at the edges just a bit. First we have some Kos Kidz getting a mite . . . more »

Judith | 09/26/05 at 08:12 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Inventive fundraising

If you want to adopt an American military sniper in Iraq, AND make George Galloway pay for it, make a bid at this eBay auction.So what happens when you cross a beautiful girl with George Galloway? It depends. After the . . . more »

Judith | 09/26/05 at 09:51 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 24, 2005

Idiots and counter-idiots

More protest and counter-protest pix. David Adesnik reads the A.N.S.W.E.R. brochure so you don't have to. He also plans to administer a little quiz to the antiwar protestors. (You know, the thousands of mainstream Americans who never took to the . . . more »

Judith | 09/24/05 at 04:59 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 23, 2005

Do The Cultural Squrm

Judith has already suggested she might not patronize any more of Viggo Mortenson's productions based on his pro-Galloway attendance at the recent Galloway/Hitchens debate in NYC. But judging from this review of Viggo's new movie, A History of Violence, I . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/23/05 at 11:41 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

How the mighty have fallen

A friend who works in film emails me: I went to a seminar tonight starring a Hollywood dinosaur. Norman Jewison (Canadian moonbat director, about 80 years old), wants to do a new satire of America in the war on terror. . . . more »

Judith | 09/23/05 at 11:26 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 22, 2005

The further adventures of Gorgeous George

After duking it out with Christopher Hitchens in NYC, George Galloway continues to barnstorm across the US, trailed by protestors and leafletters trying to spread the word about his true beliefs. I made the acquaintance of many Chicagoans when I . . . more »

Judith | 09/22/05 at 10:08 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Oh Good!

Hillary, McCain to Meet with Cindy Sheehan Great! Now maybe Cindy can persuade them to get the troops home out of Occupied New Orleans. . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/22/05 at 12:32 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 20, 2005

Turning The Other Cheek Right Into A Big Fist

"It is not patriotism when you say, 'My country right or wrong,'" [Cindy] said. "Because our country is very wrong now." Well, it looks like Cindy has managed to convince someone in her wake. Or maybe it was Galloway. A . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/20/05 at 07:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

God Tests the New York Times. No Ram In Sight

NYTimes cutting 500 jobs. In a memo to staffers, company chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson wrote: "We regret that we will see many of our colleagues leave the Company; it is a painful process for all . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/20/05 at 06:07 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Same old same old

Christopher Hitchens made mincemeat of George Galloway last week, and has more juicy detail about Gorgeous George's retinue at the end of this article. (Scroll down to "Galloway update.") Someone needs to add this info to the next leaflet. . . . . more »

Judith | 09/20/05 at 12:47 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 18, 2005

Shocked, shocked to find anti-Americanism here!

Tony Blair was shocked by the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, describing it as “full of hatred of America”, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, revealed on Friday night. Mr Murdoch, a long-time . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/18/05 at 02:57 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Rehashing the Mash

Christopher adds to the spate on the debate with his own post mortem. [What is it about this thing that has everyone rhyming all of a sudden?] Lovely write up of the event in the London Observer by Andrew Anthony. . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/18/05 at 10:47 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Occupied New Orleans

More Updates Below the Fold Look! It's become a Leftist Meme: Well, I mean, in the days that have passed, the week or so since you were here this past weekend, we have seen a real increase in the militarization . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/18/05 at 12:56 AM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 16, 2005

Celebrities everywhere you look

First Christopher Hitchens and George Galloway, and now Galloway and Viggo Mortensen's new revolutionary darling, Cindy Sheehan, is appearing in NYC this weekend. If you want to participate in a counter-demonstration, check out Operation Iraqi Hope, this Sunday at 11 . . . more »

Judith | 09/16/05 at 05:46 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Who Knew?

More Updates below the line: That Viggo was at the debate rooting for Galloway? Viggo, we loved you as Aragon in LOTR, but you are vying for world's biggest moonbat. He's been a busy boy - flying down to Crawford . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/16/05 at 04:26 PM | 1 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Mr. Galloway, meet the residents of the Astrodome

Previous Hitchens-Galloway debate entries here and here. Two additional eyewitness accounts - one from the right and one from the left - make it clear that Galloway's rhetoric has limited appeal. I noted before how Galloway invoked Katrina (the Bush . . . more »

Judith | 09/16/05 at 01:25 AM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 15, 2005

Galloway the cliche machine

Other entries on this topic here and here. (I got my own entry at Memeorandum! Cool! So did Mary! I like this new version of Memeorandum.) BBC report (Realplayer), captures the atmosphere very well. Here are the MP3 links for . . . more »

Judith | 09/15/05 at 11:49 PM | 2 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

The rumble in the jungle

Next entries on this topic here and here. I don't have time to post more now, but the NYC Liberal Hawks had a fine time at the Hitchen-Galloway "debate" (one of us said in email today: "Aw, that one's not . . . more »

Judith | 09/15/05 at 11:25 AM | 3 Comments | 9 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 12, 2005

Live from New Yawk City . . .

For you folks who couldn't get a ticket or who aren't in commuting distance of NYC: the Hitchens-Galloway debate on Wednesday night will be podcast. The hawkish democratic leftist Brits from Harry's Place have done great work in spreading the . . . more »

Judith | 09/12/05 at 09:08 PM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 09, 2005

Pillage Idiot is at it again

This time his photoshopping wit features John Roberts. Great for a laugh in a sad time if, uh, you lean to the belief that Roberts is much smarter than most of his critics. . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/09/05 at 12:43 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 07, 2005

Can I Vomit Now?

Jane Fonda told [Roger Friedman] yesterday she's scrapped plans for anti-war bus trip next March. As well, Fonda will be making only two appearances this month on another rally with controversial British politician George Galloway, not the eight that were . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/07/05 at 09:58 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 04, 2005

Revealing Conversation

A friend emailed this to me (names are not named to protect friendships and livelihoods):I had a brief but fascinating discussion at the local diner today with the wife of my congressman, who is reliably one of the most far-left . . . more »

Judith | 09/04/05 at 02:59 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Hurricane-based finger-pointing

After many links to relief organizations and spiritual ruminations, it's time to join Junkyard Blog in decisively refuting the campaign to blame the Bush Aministration while making excuses for the ineptitude of local and state officials. Throughout the Labor Day . . . more »

Judith | 09/04/05 at 12:43 AM | 6 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 31, 2005

What a donkey

In response to a dumb comment by Eleanor Clift on "The McLaughlin Group", Damian Bennett of E-Nough sent me the following email: . . . more »

Judith | 08/31/05 at 07:26 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Get ready to rumble . . .

You never know who might put in an appearance at your counterprotest. Smash and his little band of Protest Warriors put together an impromptu "Thank You" demonstration for Bush's speech in San Diego. He got a surprise visit from Donald . . . more »

Judith | 08/31/05 at 06:30 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 29, 2005

Iraq is just like . . .

A succinct rejoinder to all the "Iraq is Vietnam" crap, which might be especially useful to veterans attending college this fall:Iraq is just like Vietnam except: We occupy Hanoi. We've captured Ho Chi Minh. The North Vietnamese have just held . . . more »

Judith | 08/29/05 at 01:18 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Get your tickets now

I want to remind people about the upcoming Hitchens-Galloway tour. If you are in the NYC Metro area, you can watch the pyrotechnics at Baruch College. Some of us Liberal Hawks are going to attend as a Hitchens cheering section . . . more »

Judith | 08/29/05 at 12:55 PM | 2 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Extra! Extra! Bush causes massive flooding in New Orleans!

Did you know Bush is to blame for Hurricane Katrina? No, this accusation does not come from the hilarious satirical site Blame Bush! This blogger makes the claim with a straight face. But he gets soundly fisked in the comments. . . . more »

Judith | 08/29/05 at 12:49 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 26, 2005

The silly season isn't over

Previous Sheehan entry here. Since it is still a week before Labor Day and the unofficial end of the summer, the Sheehan media carnival is not over yet. The NRO Buzz continues to report, with many pix, including new choice . . . more »

Judith | 08/26/05 at 01:30 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 24, 2005

The Sheehan carnival jumps the shark

If the after-dinner comedians of the blogosphere are getting laughs out of the Cindy Circus, Leno and Letterman can't be far behind. . . . more »

Judith | 08/24/05 at 01:10 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 23, 2005

Inside the talking heads of "Inside 9-11"

Some kudos for the National Geographic TV series Inside 9-11. Since I don't have a TV, I didn't see it, but I did view all the interviews archived at the website. I was a bit concerned that antisemitic conspiracy nut . . . more »

Judith | 08/23/05 at 06:34 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 22, 2005

Juan Cole disgraces himself again

Last week I linked to a radio interview with Lisa Ramaci, the widow of murdered journalist Steven Vincent. (And you can get to my previous entries on Vincent's death from there.) I said at the time that Ramaci was a . . . more »

Judith | 08/22/05 at 09:45 PM | 0 Comments | 5 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 18, 2005

The other Gold Star mothers

This used to be part of this entry, but as more examples rolled in I decided to give it its own space. [ UPDATE: Move America Forward is coordinating a "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" caravan to tour various . . . more »

Judith | 08/18/05 at 02:02 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 17, 2005

Hear me roar

When I was tipping my hat to all the strident snarky bloggers out there who make me look like a puddy-tat, I forgot Andrea Harris. Meryl may be the Master of Juvenile Scorn, but Andrea is the Queen Bitch of . . . more »

Judith | 08/17/05 at 01:52 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 15, 2005

The most breathtakingly ludicrous comparison I have seen in a while

[ Stop the presses! Cindy Sheehan doesn't want to meet with President Bush after all! ] UPDATE: Sheehan has attracted the flaming allseeing eye of Christopher Hitchens. It's all over. UPDATE: Chrenkoff points out how some bereaved mothers of soldiers . . . more »

Judith | 08/15/05 at 12:49 PM | 8 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 14, 2005

Cindy Sheehan's fellow travellers

The longer Cindy Sheehan sits by the road in Crawford, the more of her questionable political views and associations will come to light. Solomonia has the rundown on Sheehan's association with the Crawford Peace House, convicted terrorist supporter Lynn Stewart, . . . more »

Judith | 08/14/05 at 09:59 PM | 15 Comments | 4 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 09, 2005

Rotten tomatoes

A friend emailed me: Any interest in seeing..... Fahrenheit 911? It is showing on one of the premium channels I subscribe to . . . I have yet to see it, prefer not induce further rage in my already enraged . . . more »

Judith | 08/09/05 at 04:45 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 30, 2005

Imaginary temples

My blogburst announcement is already causing controversy (scroll down). Biblical scholar Jim Davila links to someone too busy to actually read the request, but not too busy to denounce all the things it doesn't say. Jim also sets him straight. . . . more »

Judith | 07/30/05 at 12:51 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 15, 2005

What? It's not a parody?

It's really gratifying to us bloggers to see one of our number make it into a major newspaper like the NY Times. So congratulations to Iowahawk for his hilarious parody of lefty feminist outrage. What? It's not a parody? RELATED: . . . more »

Judith | 07/15/05 at 03:32 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 08, 2005

Ouch

Via Roger's comments: Hitchens turning Ron Reagan upside down and shaking hard. [ UPDATE: Oh goody - the video! And More Hitchens. ] . . . more »

Judith | 07/08/05 at 06:50 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 22, 2005

Take back the memorial

Yesterday several of us NYC Metro Liberal Hawks joined the protest against the proposed 9-11 memorial. Mary took pix. The Nautical File and Riding Sun (not part of our group but I wish I had met them) took pix. . . . more »

Judith | 06/22/05 at 12:30 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 21, 2005

Tricky Dick blows off 212

A friend emails me:When I called Durbin's office, I was asked if I was calling from NY because they say I had a 212 exchange. Then she said - we're keeping our line open for Illinois voters - don't . . . more »

Judith | 06/21/05 at 04:36 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 10, 2005

Democracy, Whisky, Sexy! courtesy of the International Zionist Conspiracy

When the Fadhil brothers came to the US in December, I saw them speak here in NYC, and began to record their tour by linking to everyone who wrote about them. There was a laughable (to anyone not in . . . more »

Judith | 05/10/05 at 07:59 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 06, 2005

Checking in with the patriarchy

I stopped visiting Blame Bush after the election, but that was wrong. Because Bush was re-elected, it is possible to keep blaming him for everything, for example, the patriarchal, phallocentric, oppressive, testosterone-fueled death of Andrea Dworkin: . . . more »

Judith | 05/06/05 at 04:34 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 03, 2005

Academic Integrity and the Middle East: outside agitators

Previous entries on this topic here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and description of the conference and speakers here. The original complaint of the Columbia students was very precise. It did not accuse anyone of antisemitism. . . . more »

Judith | 05/03/05 at 05:10 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Political re-education

Sunday started off cool and rainy, but turned warm and sunny by the time I left shul about noon after the last shacharit service of Pesach 2005. I walked over to Union Square to join my fellow Protest Warriors . . . more »

Judith | 05/03/05 at 04:27 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 21, 2005

Next: The Chuck Manson You Never Knew

Jeff Jarvis is horrified at the idea of a 9-11 made-for-TV movie, especially since the producer is talking about "humanizing the terrorists." (I stole Jeff's title for the post, because it is perfect.) Lots of discussion in the comment . . . more »

Judith | 04/21/05 at 03:34 PM | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 10, 2005

Academic Integrity and the Middle East: the press controversy continues

Previous entries on this topic here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and description of the conference and speakers here. Campus-J's stringers at Columbia and Columbians for Academic Freedom are on the front lines of this controversy; check both . . . more »

Judith | 04/10/05 at 02:39 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 02, 2005

Buy a venti chai latte today

Speaking of divestment, Oxfam divested from Starbucks. Well, I never thought much of Oxfam anyway; they are darlings of Body Shop founder Anita whatserface, and they also published that horrible poster with the blood orange advocating that people boycott . . . more »

Judith | 04/02/05 at 08:52 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 20, 2005

Dueling splinter groups

Yesterday after shul, and after the interesting study session after shul, I schlepped in my nice clothes over to the East Side to meet up with the NYC Protest Warriors, who had been confronting the A.N.S.W.E.R. moonbat brigade since . . . more »

Judith | 03/20/05 at 07:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 18, 2005

Dept. of "Why do they hate us?"

Via Ann Althouse, a review of The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism by Philippe Roger, who shows that . . . more »

Judith | 03/18/05 at 08:05 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 17, 2005

Alternate reality Dept., cont.

I reported here about some upcoming protests in NYC this weekend. Our local Protest Warrior macher forwarded to the troops a very interesting correspondence within the antiwar movement. Apparently, the New York contingent of United for Peace and Justice . . . more »

Judith | 03/17/05 at 10:39 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Maybe I should start reading Alterman's blog

People like Major Robert Bateman are willing to email him:A few days ago an Italian journalist, recently freed by a ransom paid (to people who are, not to be too delicate about it, trying to kill Mrs. Bateman�s son), . . . more »

Judith | 03/17/05 at 01:09 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

18 months later, Eric Alterman is still an ass

I found this via Fred Kaplan at Slate (i.e. I don't read Eric Alterman voluntarily). Alterman chats up Wolfowitz at a ritzy NYC media cocktail party. (Links embedded in the quote are mine) : . . . more »

Judith | 03/17/05 at 12:26 AM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 15, 2005

Alternate reality Dept.

Since the antiwar movement can't allow itself to celebrate the spread of democracy, the overthrow of tyrants, and the recovery of the economy, all it can do is mourn. . . . more »

Judith | 03/15/05 at 12:31 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 09, 2005

Academic Integrity and the Middle East - the students

Previous entry in this series here. Mary has posted her report, with pix. She has details of Phyllis Chesler's speech (including the unimaginative and boorish heckling and canned "protest" at nonexistant "censorship"), and Charles Jacob's speech (which he shared . . . more »

Judith | 03/09/05 at 07:29 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 23, 2005

Moral equivalency run amok

I posted earlier in the week about the Committee to Protect Bloggers, which is picking up the flag that organizations like Amnesty International have let fall from their hands as they have lost their credibility as non-partisan truth-telling forces. . . . more »

Judith | 02/23/05 at 11:55 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 18, 2005

Nutty professors

As the Ward Churchill scandal wore on and more information came to light, it became clear that Churchill was not only an eccentric person with reprehensible views and questionable behavior - which alone would not necessarily deny him the . . . more »

Judith | 02/18/05 at 09:34 AM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 03, 2005

Ethnic identity wars

Everyone has been covering this latest example of anachronistic academic malevolence, but Scott has an angle no one else has picked up on: Ward Churchill's Native American identity is in question. Lileks has more. UPDATE: Yet more. UPDATE: Separated . . . more »

Judith | 02/03/05 at 06:01 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 02, 2005

A statement from the International Action Center

Just in case you were wondering how the extreme antiwar left was going to spin the elections: . . . more »

Judith | 02/02/05 at 03:01 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Moments of illumination

So now some pundits and politicians are looking at 8 million purple forefingers and asking themselves if maybe Bush was right. So . . . if successful Iraqi elections mean that Bush was right, and they have previously not . . . more »

Judith | 02/02/05 at 09:50 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Great moments in trolling

Isn't it called the Michael Moore Award, which Andrew Sullivan designates for those statements which manage to pack huge amounts of extremist political cliche into one grand oration? Well, I got the troll to end all trolls last night, . . . more »

Judith | 02/02/05 at 09:07 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 01, 2005

May the circle be unbroken

Here's a juicy tidbit from the Dinocrat: Guess where Ted Kennedy got his recent quotes about the insurgency growing the more we fight them? Al Lorentz, former chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas. Here's the Constitution Party National . . . more »

Judith | 02/01/05 at 08:22 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 31, 2005

More afterglow

Still basking in the afterglow of the Iraqi election. Previous Afterglow post here. Europe is cautiously optimistic, and almost sorta maybe willing to admit it might have been a little wrong, maybe. If you want a sneak preview of . . . more »

Judith | 01/31/05 at 08:21 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 30, 2005

To inscribe on the foreheads of the "reality-based" community

Hidden in a Roger Simon comment thread: . . . more »

Judith | 01/30/05 at 11:22 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 25, 2005

Tu B'Shvat

Tu B'Shvat is over, although there's one more seder tonight at the JCC, which I won't be attending as it is a very crunchy environmentalist event, and there will be much hand-wringing over the election, which I don't want . . . more »

Judith | 01/25/05 at 06:53 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

From Berkeley to LA

The suicide bomb exhibit with Jerusalem Bus #19 will be in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 30, at 2:00 p.m. at the Museum of Tolerance. Its last location was Berkeley, where its presence exposed the extremism of anti-Israel, pro-terrorism . . . more »

Judith | 01/25/05 at 06:26 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 22, 2005

Inaugural dispatches

Pamela (aka Atlasshrugs on LGF) emails:Blew in from DC...............I must tell you that the "protesters" were the dirtiest, looniest, dreadlocked, smelliest lunatics I ever laid eyes on............... they were so without cred, an embarassment to whomever they thought they . . . more »

Judith | 01/22/05 at 10:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 21, 2005

Streaming inaugural impressions

Last night I went to a fun inaugural party in a chic apartment near Wall St. C-SPAN was on with the sound turned down and everyone was more interested in talking than watching. Great food courtesy of a Laotian . . . more »

Judith | 01/21/05 at 11:00 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 19, 2005

March of Dimes

If you were planning some big-ticket purchases, tomorrow (Thursday January 20th) might be a good day to make them. Are you planning to attend or host an inauguration party tomorrow night? Be sure to spend a lot on food . . . more »

Judith | 01/19/05 at 09:37 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 10, 2005

The imperfectability of knowledge

I don't cite Wikipedia if I can help it, because I am all too aware that an ad hoc group can be as biased as an individual in filtering facts. These days no one has any illusions that news . . . more »

Judith | 01/10/05 at 11:54 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 06, 2005

The candidacy that wouldn't die

What. An. Asshole. Just when you think Kerry has hit bottom, he gets out the shovel. Looks like he's been taking lessons from Jimmeh Carter in how to be an Elder Statesman. God I am so relieved that bombastic . . . more »

Judith | 01/06/05 at 01:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 29, 2004

Interpreting Sontag

Josh Trevino has written the blogosphere's only graceful and sensible reflections on Susan Sontag. Thank you, Josh, for resisting the easy hits (which are also deserved). . . . more »

Judith | 12/29/04 at 08:11 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 28, 2004

Somerville divestment update

Previous post here with links back to the others. My anonymous informant sent me some correspondence he had with one of the Somerville aldermen (or alderwoman, in this case). You can see the typical "progressive" argument here, complete with . . . more »

Judith | 12/28/04 at 06:22 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 25, 2004

Spirit of America tour update

Audio of the Global Voices blogging conference sessions is now online. You can hear Omar and Mohammed of Iraq the Model, and Matt of Blackfive, in "Bridge Blogging: The Global Conversation." The most recent version of the Global Voices . . . more »

Judith | 12/25/04 at 01:05 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 22, 2004

I know you're a racist aparthied state, but what am I? Revisited.

Would-be-outraged-to-be-called-a-self-hating-Jew Tony Judt is back in the news with another attempt to delegitimize Israel. (The rebuttals are beginning.) . . . more »

Judith | 12/22/04 at 11:36 AM | 3 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 17, 2004

Spirit of America update

I just want to remind everybody that I am still accumulating links about the Iraq the Model tour and the Juan Cole controversy about their sponsorship, so keep checking back for the latest. . . . more »

Judith | 12/17/04 at 08:40 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

December 15, 2004

The Spirit of America link-fest was getting so long . . .

. . . I put the Juan Cole/Iraq the Model feud here. Go here to read what all the bloggers and journalists have to say about Omar and Mohammed's December 2004 tour of America, and check back frequently for . . . more »

Judith | 12/15/04 at 07:27 PM | 5 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

November 28, 2004

Another bloggish kerfluffle about Jewish power, ho hum

I'm going to reproduce this entire post since Steven is going to close Protocols soon and I'm not sure he's going to leave the archives up. Steven emails Juan Cole, who claims that MEMRI operates with a budget of . . . more »

Judith | 11/28/04 at 09:10 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 30, 2004

Pre-election whining

I wondered when some aggrieved protestor was going to start whining about Bush campaigning in "blue" states. After all, in September many of them expressed the opinion that Republicans were not welcome in New York (as though there were . . . more »

Judith | 10/30/04 at 11:18 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

October 14, 2004

The annual fall migration of the ISM

It's October, and long time Kesher Talk readers know what that means. No, I'm not talking about crisp fall days, flame-colored leaves, or the World Series. I'm talking about . . . The annual ISM Conference! That's right, the . . . more »

Judith | 10/14/04 at 03:07 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 08, 2004

Political SIGs

Someone on some comment thread a few months ago (I don't have a link for this; it just stuck in my mind) advanced the idea that much of the Michael Moore-ish rabidness of liberal politics these days comes from . . . more »

Judith | 09/08/04 at 05:54 PM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

The Jewish Carnival of the Protestors

Culture Festival Week? Not too bad, according to the Forward.UPJ's ascent to the leadership of the biggest protest this year was seen by many Jewish observers as connected to a larger sensitivity among progressive groups toward the concerns of . . . more »

Judith | 09/08/04 at 05:35 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Sweeping up after the carnival

Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. More tolerance and diversity from the New York Metro Anti-Bush Arts and Culture Festival Week. And being a thoughtful guest. . . . more »

Judith | 09/08/04 at 03:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 06, 2004

Carnival of the Protest Warriors - final wrap up

Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. More about Thursday night's counter-protest, the one I actually made it to. (I got interviewed by a NYDN reporter but didn't . . . more »

Judith | 09/06/04 at 07:57 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

September 01, 2004

Carnival of the Protestors (and RNC)

Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Don't look at Iowa Electronic Market, Glenn, go over to Chicagoboyz and check out the InTrade box on their sidebar. Bush has been gaining a . . . more »

Judith | 09/01/04 at 02:27 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 31, 2004

Carnival of the Protestors, later that same evening

. Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here, here, here, here, here, and here. If I wasn't sick I would have gone to this party. it would have been a great antidote to those conservative book panels. . . . more »

Judith | 08/31/04 at 09:07 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Carnival of the Protestors, the sequel

Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here, here, here, here, and here. So I'm spending all day home sick, but I am going to be back out there tomorrow. Today's big event was supposed to be A31. (August 31, . . . more »

Judith | 08/31/04 at 05:49 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 30, 2004

Carnival of the Protestors, the morning after

Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here, here, and here. Glenn has some links to protest coverage with photos. Allah is continuing to provide lots of links. (Thanks for the mention, O Omnipresent One.) . . . more »

Judith | 08/30/04 at 12:32 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 29, 2004

Carnival of the Protestors goes live

Previous Carnival of the Protestors entries here and here. More anti-RNC/Bush/war mobilizing sites: RNC Not Welcome. Still We Rise. Counter Convention. NYC Grassroots Media Coalition. RNC bloggers from the left of the dial. . . . more »

Judith | 08/29/04 at 05:10 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 27, 2004

Jews on the Left make decisions

The Burning Man Festival starts Monday, and - recapitulating the hippie vs. SDS split of the late 60s - many counter-culture types are torn about whether to go for utopian vision in Nevada or gritty confrontation in Manhattan. Well, . . . more »

Judith | 08/27/04 at 05:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Carnival of the Protestors

The Republican National Convention is almost upon us, about 15 blocks from my apartment. Here is an informal roundup of planned events that are not taking place within Madison Square Garden. Bookmark this page from NYMetro for a schedule . . . more »

Judith | 08/27/04 at 11:59 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 23, 2004

"Progressives."

I've been collecting URLs about all the various protestors converging on the RNC about 15 blocks from my apartment, and I'll start posting those soon. In the meantime, here's a roundup of some ongoing "progressive" action not related to . . . more »

Judith | 08/23/04 at 03:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 19, 2004

More Imperialist Running Dog Lackeys of the Capitalist Ruling Classes street theater

If you didn't get a chance to join Communists for Kerry in Union Square last Saturday, they will be reprising their successful political indoctrination of the proletariat this Saturday. Same time, same place.CommunistsForKerry.com is staging another Red Army invasion . . . more »

Judith | 08/19/04 at 11:21 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

August 13, 2004

Come to the vomit-in!

From the Inbox: . . . more »

Judith | 08/13/04 at 06:13 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 20, 2004

It's Chicago 1968 all over again

Dry run? Dry run for this weekend? After all, after today's ruling it would be easy to do it again. I don't think the ruling will stand. This is reassuring:the decision only means that "random searches" can't be performed . . . more »

Judith | 07/20/04 at 09:51 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 14, 2004

Recovering progressive support group

A place to vent for anyone swamped with despair by creeping moonbattery. Previous post in this series here. FYI - Nationwide parties for Bush this Thursday evening. Take refuge from F911-inspired looniness by hanging with some Bush supporters. (I . . . more »

Judith | 07/14/04 at 12:31 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 10, 2004

Dead white males Dept.

Michelle Malkin on Ted Rall: . . . more »

Judith | 07/10/04 at 09:37 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 05, 2004

Yet more Huge Stupid White Man Roundup

(Previous F911 linkfests here and here.) This looks to be the Mother of All Factchecks of F911. It incorporates links to many other factchecking sites and articles. This one is also extremely thorough. And here's a blog devoted to . . . more »

Judith | 07/05/04 at 06:09 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 02, 2004

Huge Stupid White Man Roundup, cont.

The blogosphere continues to fact-check Michael Moore's ass. F911 makes a big deal out of the Bush families connections to the Carlyle Group. But - typical of its selective use of facts - it doesn't mention some others who . . . more »

Judith | 07/02/04 at 11:40 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

July 01, 2004

NGO Follies

The Development Set by Ross Coggins Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet- I'm off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots, I have travelers' checks, and pills for the trots . . . more »

Judith | 07/01/04 at 01:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 30, 2004

Moronic convergence Dept.

More proof that the far Left and far Right are converging. And here's a convergence of jihadi and Leftist willingness to use oppressed peoples as pawns. The jihadis are cheerfully willing to kill their fellow Arabs to make a . . . more »

Judith | 06/30/04 at 03:46 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 27, 2004

Across the Bay

Martin Kramer alerts us to Across the Bay, a new academic blog by "one Tony Badran, said to be a Lebanese doctoral student at New York University." Across the Bay slaps Arab pundits around with great aplomb and precision, . . . more »

Judith | 06/27/04 at 02:28 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

June 26, 2004

Big Fat Stupid White Man Roundup

An early dissenter from the Michael Moore cult: Pauline Kael on Roger and Me: . . . more »

Judith | 06/26/04 at 10:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 21, 2004

Nick Berg update

I was defending Nick Berg's father and urging people to cut him some slack, in his grief. All we knew up to this point was that he had signed an A.N.S.W.E.R. antiwar petition, which many sane normal people have . . . more »

Judith | 05/21/04 at 12:45 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 13, 2004

Nick Berg updates

I've been adding to my Nick Berg post as more news comes in, so check back there. Also, this from Reason: The Age of Comparative Atrocity: American shame; Islamist snuff movies. . . . more »

Judith | 05/13/04 at 10:06 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 12, 2004

Another one

I suspected Nick Berg - the tech entrepreneur just beheaded in a grisly videotaped execution - was Jewish, and I wondered when and if we were going to find out. Steven Weiss reports in the Forward that not only . . . more »

Judith | 05/12/04 at 10:36 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 11, 2004

The Niger yellowcake story was true after all

Oops, my bad, says Joseph Wilson, who initially denied it, and then got all huffy when his wife was outed as a CIA op (but then posed with her for a photospread in Vanity Fair). You can't make this . . . more »

Judith | 05/11/04 at 09:30 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 10, 2004

Multiculturalism run amok

The bigotry of low expectations. The paralyzation of multicultural relativism carried to its extreme. Just read the whole thing. Somehow I don't think Anne Frank would have been this confused. . . . Another case. The refusal - or inability, . . . more »

Judith | 05/10/04 at 06:27 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 05, 2004

Comix

If you guys think Ted Rall has a complicated relationship with consensual reality, check out Aaron McGruder. . . . more »

Judith | 05/05/04 at 04:36 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 04, 2004

The Passion of the Environmentalists

Vodkapundit says the "cheesy disaster flick" "The Day After Tomorrow" is going to be marketed as "The Passion of the Christ" for the anti-globalization crowd. . . . more »

Judith | 05/04/04 at 02:29 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

May 02, 2004

Clash of civilizations Dept.

Via email, with permission: . . . more »

Judith | 05/02/04 at 03:14 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 25, 2004

Slightly less wacky than Vannunu

It is often amusing to watch political events move faster than ideology can keep up: . . . more »

Judith | 04/25/04 at 09:06 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

I'm not superficial - I'm just drawn that way

Tim Blair and Andy Bizub both note lots of empathy from the antiwar camp for wounded soldiers. Cartoon soldiers, that is. . . . more »

Judith | 04/25/04 at 08:10 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 23, 2004

Cultish weirdos Dept.

Last week was the eleventh anniversary of the end of the Waco seige. Jim Davila of the always excellent Paleojudaica has tons of links. And this week (via Gary, who still gets the best most obscure links - for . . . more »

Judith | 04/23/04 at 12:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 18, 2004

More causes the Left is wrong about

William Sjostrom discusses: Stopping child labor. Regulating housing prices. . . . more »

Judith | 04/18/04 at 05:19 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 09, 2004

It's 1936 - do you know where your liberties are?

Maybe I'll annotate this with links when I get a minute. Any one else want to take a crack at it? . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 12:08 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 04, 2004

Visual aids

We've had to suffer through really nasty political cartoons. Well, it's payback time. If these are any indication, loading up little kiddies with bombs was a baaaadddd PR move for the Pals. At least in the US. And Chris . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/04 at 12:28 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 01, 2004

Multiculturalism in action

I posted this Instapundit link to a large email list I am on where politics tend to run liberal-left when they come up, but it's not a political list per se. My subject line was "liberal talk radio displaces . . . more »

Judith | 04/01/04 at 03:31 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

March 17, 2004

The blame in Spain falls mainly on the young and stupid

I'm moving this story from the news roundup below to its own post. First there was this tantalizing blurb on an LGF thread: . . . more »

Judith | 03/17/04 at 02:21 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 05, 2004

Fair weather friends

Letter on Andrew Sullivan's site:Good-bye, Andrew. I am going to leave you for now. I cannot take anymore articles about gays. This really grieves me because your site was a great read on all other subjects. So instructive. But . . . more »

Judith | 02/05/04 at 02:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

February 03, 2004

Through the looking-glass Dept

Moveon.org is promoting a petition to censure Bush for supposedly "deceiving the public" about Saddam's WMDs. The letter reads:In an attempt to escape responsibility for the misleading statements that lead the nation to war, President Bush has announced plans . . . more »

Judith | 02/03/04 at 04:26 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

That river in Egypt

If you want to see the self-righteous Left writhe in denial of its own bigotry: Very long comment thread on antisemitism in Europe. Lots of pompous self-justification, avoidance, defensiveness, fact-fudging . . . all the usual attributes of bigotry . . . more »

Judith | 02/03/04 at 02:41 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 29, 2004

Euroweenie idiotarian watch Dept.

Remember Gretta Duisenberg? Well, she hasn't FOAD yet. . . . more »

Judith | 01/29/04 at 03:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 19, 2004

Famous last words

Sullivan has an award for this but I forget which one it is. You know, where something you wrote several years back comes back to haunt you with its utter lack of accuracy. For example: . . . more »

Judith | 01/19/04 at 10:10 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 17, 2004

The Wesley Clark weekend

I read the transcript of Clark's testimony, and at first I didn't think it invalidates the quotes that Drudge excerpted. They are surrounded by much hedging and "on the one hand ... on the other hand," but I didn't . . . more »

Judith | 01/17/04 at 06:35 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 12, 2004

Selective Indignation

Kate Raphael - scourge of the Israeli "apartheid" "wall" - had better start planning the itinerary for her round-the-world tour. According to this site, there are many walls that demand Kate's attention: . . . more »

Judith | 01/12/04 at 01:19 AM | 1 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

January 10, 2004

Queers for terrorism

So last month Kate Raphael of Berkeley was arrested for protesting the nasty "apartheid" wall that keeps Palestinian suicide bombers from murdering Jewish grandmothers in restaurants. (And if you think assassinating terrorist leaders and building a wall doesn't keep Israelis . . . more »

Judith | 01/10/04 at 09:35 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots