"when asked if she would support Obama were he the Democratic candidate, she emphatically shook her head. "I'm Jewish," said Goldfeder, "and I haven't heard him say a word about Israel."
So, McCain's hundred years' war would be preferable?
OK, no offense, but now I wish I'd voted for Obama instead of Clinton.
Israel, for all its trumped up importance, is the 96th or so most populous country in the world. Right between Switzerland and Honduras, with a whopping .11% of the world's people. Their major exports are oranges and ammunition, which we can produce ourselves.
I wish them well, but as far as I'm concerned Israel doesn't get to vote for president of the US. They've got no delegates and shouldn't be making campaign contributions; they just shouldn't get a say. I'm seriously tired of the weight the Israel lobby and the ADL etc. throw around in our political system. It's not in either country's best interests, and it isn't in mine.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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