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“Politics of Fear” (Barry Blitt/New Yorker)
Frankly, this by-now notorious New Yorker cover is a bit baffling.  One wonders what, if anything, David Remnick was thinking when he commissioned it other than: “this will stick it to him and raise a hornet’s nest of controversy.”  One thing’s for sure–it was meant to make mischief more than [...]

Edward Luttwak, one of Ronald Reagan’s original Cold Warriors, has channeled Daniel Pipes in the N.Y. Times Op-Ed section today, claiming preposterously that a President Obama will be in danger because Islamists will view his as a Muslim apostate and try to kill him.
I’ve already written about this stupid line of argument when Pipes advanced [...]