CHRISTMAS CARNAGE

There is something awfully weird about J.C. Penney's "Forward Command Post," a toy for kids age five and up. It's not apparent, at first sight, exactly where the weirdness is coming from. Sure, it's a battle scene, and the house is shattered, cratered with...

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ATTACK OF THE NEOS

So, you thought the Trent Lott episode had nothing to do with the war and foreign policy, especially all you politically correct antiwar liberals out there, who just hooted and hollered at the downfall of the "racist" Senator. But David Frum begs to...

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‘COLORBLIND’– EXCEPT FOR SOME

"We're all Israelis now!" This was the cry that went up from the War Party in the wake of 9/11, and as a prophecy regarding our treatment of Middle Easterners in America, it is certainly coming true. Amid reports that Israel has as many as 5,000 Palestinians...

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9/11 – WHO KNEW?

Just another boring PBS "Newshour," the droning voices of predictably safe panelists putting us to sleep, when, all at once, we are jolted wide awake: GWEN IFILL: "Senator Graham, are there elements in this report, which are classified that Americans...

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ON THE DOWNLOW

A group of pro-Israel political consultants, the Israel Project, is telling partisans of the Jewish state to kindly shut up about their fulsome support for Gulf War II – lest they give the show away. A memo entitled "Talking About Iraq," directed at...

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION

The Israelis are riding high, these days – but not, perhaps, for long. Ever since 9/11, the Israeli government and its American amen corner have been making the point that Israel's fight is now America's fight, and this argument has met with some success. A...

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PORTRAIT OF A WAR BIRD

National Review Online recently posted "Ten Questions for Adel al-Jubeir," yet another rant by Stephen Schwartz, the Michael Ruppert of the Right, who claims that the Saudi government was really behind the 9/11 attacks. It is the usual fare from the neocons'...

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TO RUSSIA, WITH LOVE

Uh-Oh …. Don't look now, but last week President Vladimir Putin had the bright idea of bringing back the five-pointed red star as the insignia of the Russian military. It all begins to make sense if we note the Russian government's crackdown on … Barbie! The...

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HAIL HENRY!

Rarely has there been a display of unanimity such as the universal hissing that greeted Henry Kissinger's appointment as chairman of the "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States." From Maureen Dowd's reliably b*tchy response –...

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WAR PARTY DUMPS BUSH?

It had to happen sooner or later, and I don't want to sound too full of myself, but I did predict it: I mean the attempt to tie the Saudis, Al Qaeda, and the Bush administration into one gigantic conspiracy and cover-up. Headlines are being made by Newsweek, which ran...

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