Month: May 2011

The Republicans are behaving like they don’t think they have any chance of beating President Obama and are throwing most of their energy into retaking the U.S. Senate. Of course, the two things are related. In order to...

I am not the least bit surprised that Mike Huckabee isn’t running for president. I’ve been saying as much for a very long time. He likes ze money too much. Now, all of his voters will run to Rick Santorum, right?...

Juliano Mer Khamis (left) and Udi Aloni (right). Udi Aloni wrote this final obituary on the death of Juliano Mer Khamis, a Jewish-Palestinian peace activist who operated a theatre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin,...

During the Iranian Hostage Crisis I was a paper-boy. Every afternoon I would load up my 3-speed bicycle with about fifty copies of the Trenton Times and deliver them to my neighbors. I obviously noticed what was on the...

I think we’re going to have start calling these Voter ID laws something more memorable. I prefer “Jim Crow-Lite Laws” because, despite a small degree of hyperbole, the aim of these laws is to address the fact...