Mystical Politics

The second piece of depressing news today comes from this article on the Washington Post website - Obama Rebuffs Challenges on His Israel St...

Wow, some depressing news today. The first item is John Hagee's endorsement of John McCain for President. (I wrote on Hagee previously -...

This guy really does fascinate me, but I hope my small band of readers isn't getting too bored by my posts about him. It amazes me that ...

Unsurprisingly, Bill Ayers supported Ward Churchill , the University of Colorado professor who was fired for fraudulent scholarship . But...

I discovered that Bill Ayers has a blog, and scrolling through it just now, I found his apologia for his terrorist actions. He dresses up h...

A very softball interview with Ayers and Dohrn in an issue of In These Times a couple of years ago: Debunking the 60s with Ayers and Dohrn ....

Politico posted a story yesterday on Barack Obama's encounters in Chicago with two radicals from the 60s who are responsible for terror...

Cat on living room table. Kevin Drum at The Washington Monthly has some beautiful photos of his cats for Friday catblogging (especially Dom...

Last night I went out in the cold to take a look at the lunar eclipse as it was just starting. I managed to get a few photos which look kind...

Through a referrer file, I came across a blog with a cool name - Merkavah Vision . My sometime correspondent Deane appears to be the blog au...

A fine article by Norm Geras - Too much Holocaust , countering an article by Tony Judt that too much attention is being paid to the Holocaus...

The Stuff White People Like blog is painfully accurate - catch especially the entry on the Prius or on reading the New York Times on Sunday...

Stumper, a blog on the Newsweek website, posted a story today ( Stumper: Obama Won One New York County ) on Obama's win in Tompkins Coun...

I've been following the election tonight (of course), and the state of New York has gone for Clinton (not a big surprise, since she'...

Arun Gandhi has resigned from the peace institute he headed at the University of Rochester. He issued an apology a few days after his origi...

Norm Geras has posted several moving comments on Holocaust Memorial Day 2008 . See especially what he has to say about Hannah Arendt's i...

This is exciting - Ted Kennedy Plans to Back Obama Over Clinton .

Barack Obama appears to have won the South Carolina primary by a sizable margin - 53% to Clinton's 27% and Edwards' 20%. I'm hap...

As I had hoped, the fact that the story about Ron Paul's racism was finally written about in a mainstream media outlet - the New Republi...

Harry's Place has dredged up two of Gandhi's more notorious quotes about the Jews, nonviolence, and the Holocaust (Gandhi's art...