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At the same time, Congress and the White House were rushing to enact legislation to prevent a lapse in several of the federal government’s investigative powers under the Patriot Act that were set to expire at midnight. The Senate passed … Continue reading →

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/sarah-palin-the-movie.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BN3V6uB8bYwNvj How did this man become, in the arena of American political opinionating, someone to pay attention to? It utterly baffles me that these banal observations rate any sort of attention. But you choose your characterization of this waste of … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-25/benjamin-netanyahus-speech-and-the-palestinian-right-to-dream/ Does Mr. Beinart know any ordinary people? Or are all his contacts overachievers, replicas of himself? Fadi Quran is representative of the groundswell of the Arab Spring, an aspiration within the framework of the cultivation of civic republican virtue. … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/opinion/24brooks.html?hp Mr. Brooks is giddy, he has discovered the joy and wonder of the British Class system,its exclusive schools and their newest representatives, in a regime that has dedicated itself to the final dismantling of the welfare state, that odious … Continue reading →

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TEL AVIV – Binyamin Netanyahu’s furious rejection of US President Barack Obama’s proposal to use the 1967 borders as the basis for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute – frontiers that he called “utterly indefensible” – reflects not only … Continue reading →

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