During the Revolutionary War and during the founding years of the United States, many states required “loyalty oaths” to be sworn by those who joined a state militia.
Just a quickie. I heard a rumor recently and have subsequently confirmed through White House sources that the administration is gearing up to get serious again about charting out a new course on Israel/Palestine.
George Soros has published a significant truth-telling article in the Boston Globe this morning, “Blinded by a Concept,” about some of the shortcomings of America’s foreign policy and Israel’s mistakes in its recent incursions into Lebanon and Gaza.
Want a lesson in real democracy — as the founding fathers meant it? Watch this video clip of Keith Olbermann taking on the administration and Donald Rumsfeld in the most compelling oratory I have heard in some time.
Chris Nelson who writes the bloggish “Nelson Report“, rarely posted on the internet and just packed with great analysis and often good gossip, has a good report on Iran tonight. I post this in full with his permission.
I was up recently visiting Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland — which claims to have one of the oldest unharvested spruce and hemlock forests in the region. Quite a beautiful place.
Barney Frank gets it. His Boston Globe piece this morning, “Afghanistan Ignored,” reinforces a point I tried to make long ago — those who have opposed Joe Lieberman’s continued tenure are “not anti-war.” Rather, they are “anti-Iraq War.
Just a bit of notice that I will be live on MSNBC at 1:45 pm ET discussing former Iran President Mohammad Khatami’s visit to Washington as well as current Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s challenge to President Bush to a televised debate.
Talk about Orwellian thought control. This is one of the strangest political ads I have seen in a long time. It’s on YouTube; 29 seconds long. Well worth watching. Relax, and think about good stuff. . .
The Forward is becoming a daily read for me. It does a superb job of captruing diverse views about issues related to Judaism and Israel — and is one of the few American portals I know of where the debates taking place in Israel are published relatively unfiltered.
