Mystical Politics

An article in the Huffington Post - McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will - seems to have made enough waves about p...

Kathleen Parker's op-ed last week in the Baltimore Sun is bizarre, especially this section: Full-bloodedness is an old coin that...

An article in yesterday's Washington Post makes it clear that some white voters don't vote for Obama because he's black (or beca...

For those interested in blogging by Lebanese bloggers on the current fighting in Lebanon between Hezbollah and many others (may it not actua...

More on Obama and the Middle East, this time Lebanon. An aticle by Lee Smith on Michael Totten's website - The Tea Boy - calls into que...

It's very interesting watching the presidential primary results tonight. The television networks called North Carolina for Obama as soon...

I used to have hope that Barack Obama's candidacy was really a sign that this country was changing - that it was possible that a black m...

The AAR has finally come to its senses and decided that it's okay for the AAR and SBL to hold their Annual Meetings at the same time of...

IAEA head slams US for holding back info on Syrian reactor . "Additionally, 'the director general views the unilateral use of force...

Obama is going to have to denounce the statements of the pastor of the church he's belonged to for many years in much stronger terms tha...

This is a moving obituary of "the only Englishman to be sent to Auschwitz," Leon Greenman , who died on March 7 at age 97. Leon Gr...

Matthew Yglesias just tipped me to this new blog - South Jerusalem - written by Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman. Haim's entry on wh...

This article - Why do writers pretend to be Indians? - may shed some light on the psychology of Ward Churchill .

Another great column by Bradley Burston - To the Westerner who "understands" the terrorist - on yesterday's terrorist attack ...

1) Terrorist attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe kills eight yeshiva students, one as young as 15. 2. Islamic Jihad terrorists b...

Two good articles on Hagee & Jews - one from Gershom Gorenberg , one from Matthew Yglesias . Both address the question of why there hasn...

The same talk that Obama gave to Jewish leaders in Cleveland (which I quoted from in my last post) also has some more interesting statement...

James Kirchick, one of the bloggers on the New Republic's blog Plank, has just posted a dumb comment about something that Obama recentl...

I just took a look at the Pew religion survey (which I referenced in the previous entry), and figured out the numbers for each religious gro...

Another thing that I don't understand about McCain's acceptance of Hagee's endorsement is what he thinks the effect that Hagee...

Bruce Wilson of the Talk to Action blog has posted a long story about John Hagee's views about Jews - in which it becomes quite clear t...

Another few events have recently occurred that have made me feel even more hopeless than usual about the situation (המצב) in the Middle East...

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...

Well, it seems that Andrew Sullivan really has drunk the Kool-Aid when he says that he just doesn't believe Ron Paul "wrote those ...

Apparently Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, doesn't understand Jews and the Jewish situation in the contemporary world any m...

Steven Erlanger of the New York Times has finally reported on the Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot . (I usually disagree with those who criti...

James Kirchick of the New Republic has finally done the research in Ron Paul's newsletters to prove the point that his bigoted associat...