CIA Chief Defends Agency’s Failure to Find Osama Humor Politics & Society CIA Chief Defends Agency’s Failure to Find Osama Richard Silverstein November 30, 2005 Goss: master of the obvious (source: CNN) This headline from CNN: CIA Chief Defends Agency Over bin... Read More Read more about CIA Chief Defends Agency’s Failure to Find Osama
Peres Expected to Abandon Labor Mideast Peace Peres Expected to Abandon Labor Richard Silverstein November 30, 2005 Posing with FC Barcelona soccer shirt before game against Israeli team: traitor to his Party, traitor to... Read More Read more about Peres Expected to Abandon Labor
Democrats.com Forum Moderator Espouses Anti-Semitic Canards Jews & Judaism Military-Tech-Security Politics & Society Democrats.com Forum Moderator Espouses Anti-Semitic Canards Richard Silverstein November 29, 2005 I’m a member of Democrats.com and participate in its forum. When I write a post about the... Read More Read more about Democrats.com Forum Moderator Espouses Anti-Semitic Canards
Democratic Party’s Bankrupt Israeli-Palestinian Policy Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society Democratic Party’s Bankrupt Israeli-Palestinian Policy Richard Silverstein November 28, 2005 Actually, my blog post title is a misnomer. Unlike President Bush, who has a fairly coherent policy... Read More Read more about Democratic Party’s Bankrupt Israeli-Palestinian Policy
Dumbo as Political Allegory Children & Family Film-TV-Media Jews & Judaism Dumbo as Political Allegory November 28, 2005 I started to write this post a year ago or so after first seeing Dumbo (that’s right,... Read More Read more about <i>Dumbo</i> as Political Allegory
Alison Krauss’ Baby Mine from Disney’s Dumbo Children & Family Film-TV-Media Folk & World Music Alison Krauss’ Baby Mine from Disney’s Dumbo Richard Silverstein November 27, 2005 When you have kids, you know they’re going to constrict your cultural experiences because you won’t have... Read More Read more about Alison Krauss’ <i>Baby Mine</i> from Disney’s <i>Dumbo</i>
Abramoff Probe Snares More Members of Congress Humor Politics & Society Abramoff Probe Snares More Members of Congress Richard Silverstein November 26, 2005 For weeks, we’ve been reading that the Justice Department is investigating Rep. Bob Ney’s (R., OH) relationship... Read More Read more about Abramoff Probe Snares More Members of Congress
Jose Padilla and Bush’s Failed End-Around the Constitution Politics & Society Jose Padilla and Bush’s Failed End-Around the Constitution Richard Silverstein November 25, 2005 The Bush Administration this week charged Jose Padilla (finally after three years in confinement without charge and... Read More Read more about Jose Padilla and Bush’s Failed End-Around the Constitution
Scooter Libby’s Thanksgiving 2006 Pardon? Humor Politics & Society Scooter Libby’s Thanksgiving 2006 Pardon? Richard Silverstein November 25, 2005 Will Scooter be next year’s pardoned turkey? This year’s pardoned turkeys were ‘Yam’ and ‘Marshmallow.’ Will next... Read More Read more about Scooter Libby’s Thanksgiving 2006 Pardon?
Twins Turn One Children & Family Seattle Twins Turn One Richard Silverstein November 23, 2005 Our twins, Miriam and Adin, turned one year old today. They were born last November 23rd at... Read More Read more about Twins Turn One
Bill Gates: File-sharing is Communism and Other Stupid Ideas Military-Tech-Security Bill Gates: File-sharing is Communism and Other Stupid Ideas Richard Silverstein November 23, 2005 If anyone needs to know how Microsoft got into the technological doldrums it’s been in for some... Read More Read more about Bill Gates: File-sharing is Communism and Other Stupid Ideas
Cheney’s ‘Vision’ of Muslim Worldwide Domination Politics & Society Cheney’s ‘Vision’ of Muslim Worldwide Domination Richard Silverstein November 22, 2005 Osama & Cheney–believers in the Caliphate (credit: Elena Steier) Dick Cheney’s speech today to the American Enterprise... Read More Read more about Cheney’s ‘Vision’ of Muslim Worldwide Domination