Aug 05 2012
Mitt Romney’s “culture” war By Erik Nielson, Sunday, Aug 5, 2012 07:00 AM CDT In his latest overseas gaffe, Mitt Romney pontificated on the economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians. Ignoring Israel’s role in perpetuating these differences, Romney instead offered a clear and simple explanation: “Culture makes all the difference.” These remarks, as well …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/08/05/an-anglo-saxon-heritage/
Aug 04 2012
Mitt Romney: Son of Abraham? By Valerie Tarico, Saturday, Aug 4, 2012 08:01 AM CDT While in Jerusalem Mitt Romney made an appearance at the Wailing Wall in a yarmulke. Was he just trying to pay tribute to Orthodox tradition or does he think he’s a Jew? Perhaps both. Conservative Christianity teaches “supersessionism,” the …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/08/04/born-through-the-loins-of-ephraim/
Aug 02 2012
The Pandering Game By Raouf J. Halaby, August 01, 2012 The season of Pandering is upon us, and by now the routine is all too familiar. While negative ads, fund raising efforts in all their forms, email and robo phone calls, misinformation, and pandering have become the norm, to be elected, aspiring candidates have …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/08/02/plant-a-prayer-in-a-conspicuous-crevice/
Aug 01 2012
Why Not in Vegas? By Thomas L. Friedman, July 31, 2012 I’ll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the right-wing, super pro-Bibi …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/08/01/blunt-truths/
Jul 31 2012
Mitt Romney Just Played The Race Card By Peter S. Goodman, 07/30/2012 6:08 pm Mitt Romney’s latest brush with a quotation requiring further explanation is really an act of political genius — albeit, one of the cravenly cynical and despicable variety. By standing in Jerusalem on Monday and declaring that Jews are richer than …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/31/window-into-the-soul-of-a-man/
Jul 31 2012
The Business of Kaboom By Raouf Halaby, July 23, 2012 While surfing the cable news channels during the post noon hours of July 19, 2012, to catch up on the sordid danse macabre that is unfolding in Syria, I accidentally caught the last 90 seconds of a CNN report on a US-funded “Weapons Fair” …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/31/just-imagine/
Jul 30 2012
Ten reasons Mitt Romney’s Israel visit is in bad taste By Juan Cole, Monday 30 July 2012 07.00 EDT The trip of US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons. He is holding a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. It is distasteful …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/30/hobnobbing-with-the-uber-rich/
