Aug 19 2008
I’ve been meaning to ask you if you watched the Saturday night Saddleback forum and, if so, what you thought of it. I’ll go ahead and give you my two-cents’ take… First, Rick Warren came across as a little too smug and a bit narcissistic — his subsequent fame on the bobble-head cable shows like CNN …
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Aug 09 2008
http://mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htm A woman asked the cloud: please enfold my loved one My clothes are soaked with his blood If you shall not be rain, my love Be trees Saturated with fertility, be trees And if you shall not be trees, my love Be a stone Saturated with humidity, be a stone And if you shall …
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Jul 24 2008
I watched Obama’s Berlin speech today on MSNBC. As soon as it was over, the bobble-head commentators (those erudite members of our once-vaunted Fourth Estate castrati) started trying to resuscitate the fading McCain in their desperation to keep the election an ad-selling horse race. There was endless speculation about whether Americans would be disgusted by Obama’s international popularity. …
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Jul 10 2008
Ms. Gassaway, I had hoped the rabbi’s recent rant would be disregarded by your readers as the specious partisan pandering it obviously is to anyone who understands even the smallest bits of Middle Eastern history and contemporary realities “over there.” However, given that more than a week has passed, and now today’s follow-on huzzahs by …
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Jun 15 2008
“So it is that democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent, while enhancing the power of the state and the privileged interests protected by it. Democracy without accountability creates the illusion of popular control, while offering ordinary Americans only cheap tickets to the balcony, too far away to see that the public stage has …
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May 18 2008
While Obama has shamelessly pandered (along with the rest of them) for the American Jewish vote, he has at the same time demonstrated a grasp of Middle Eastern realities that I have not heard from any other candidate. And while he has made some errors (in my opinion), he got it right on the big …
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