The New Republic

An interesting side-note to the whole Scott McClellan media love-fest: how come the country's major newspapers and media outlets haven't devoted 1/10th the attention to the recently-published memoir of former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith? READ MORE >>

Consider the plight of the American Jewish peacenik. With Hamas in control of Gaza, Ehud Olmert under investigation, and the West Bank government of Mahmoud Abbas shaky as ever, a negotiated deal between Israelis and Palestinians doesn't exactly appear imminent. Meanwhile, closer to home, the likely Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, has said he won't negotiate with Hamas. Under these grim circumstances, what's a Peace Now type to do? READ MORE >>

A few days ago in the book store, I perused a copy of former Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee's new book, Against the Tide, and read this on the inside front jacket: READ MORE >>

The Washington Post reports that nearly a dozen of Ron Paul's relatives are on his paid campaign staff, all to the tune of $169,063. READ MORE >>

Isaac, does that make Hillary Robert Mugabe? --James Kirchick  READ MORE >>

You probably haven't heard of James McGee. He's our Ambassador in Harare, Zimbabwe. He's also a black man, which frustrates the sick worldview of Robert Mugabe. Here's an excerpt from a news story earlier this week that made me smile: READ MORE >>

Josh wrote earlier about Jamie Rubin's Washington Post op-ed today alleging John McCain's "Hypocrisy on Hamas" (bigger news, I think, is that a ruthless Clinton hack like Rubin is now going to the barricades for Obama). Both Josh and Rubin take McCain's assertion that "sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them" as evidence that McCain has "flip-flopped' on the question of negotiations with Hamas. READ MORE >>

That's what Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs called the following portion of President Bush's speech before the Knesset today: READ MORE >>

The American Conservative -- that wonderful publication founded by Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos -- has a thought-provoking, unsigned item in its current issue (not available online). It's entitled, "Sect's Crime," and concerns the April raid launched by Texas officials on the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a polygmous sect operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. READ MORE >>

Monday, I received a mass email from Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Here's what he wrote: READ MORE >>