Analysis
Tuesday, November 7th 2023
Liel Leibovitz Newsweek, Nov. 5, 2023 “Only a mind gripped by the erotic pull of theory would look at the 2009 demonstrations in Iran—the so-called Green Revolution—and decide that America ought to side not with the huddled masses yearning to breathe free but with their jailers, the murderous mullahs who beat women to death for […]
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_________________________________________________________________ Jim Geraghty National Review, Nov. 6, 2023 “Whatever happened to the idea that the people responsible for the violence in the Middle East are the ones who actually committed the violence?” … This morning, we must turn our attention to the recent comments of former president Barack Obama, who was pretty quiet for […]
Abe Greenwald Commentary, Nov. 5, 2023 “It’s big of him to shoulder the blame along with the rest of us. And in repayment for his generosity, I offer a few words to help him out in his soul searching on this issue: President Obama, perhaps you shouldn’t have chosen as the crowning goal of […]
David P. Deavel AMAC, Nov. 5, 2023 “It was classic Obama. Still speaking in the NPR voice that made his New Left radicalism sound calming and moderate, he is always capable of sounding profound and intellectual while not actually revealing what he’s doing.” Barack Obama has been sucking up the headlines again for what […]
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Friday, August 11th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
SHABBAT READING Of Lambs and Lambasting: The Message in Nathan’s Parable to David: Dr. Yael Landman, The Torah.com, Aug. 3, 2023 — One spring, King David sends his soldiers to besiege the Ammonites, but he remains in Jerusalem (2 Sam 11:1).[1] While walking on his roof one afternoon, he spies Bathsheba bathing, and despite learning […]
Mark Hemingway The Federalist, Aug. 9, 2023 “‘Hey, why don’t you sell that old house and buy three or four huge mansions in Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii and Washington, D.C., and rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in sweetheart deals with big corporations while you’re vacationing on rich people’s yachts? He’d probably sock you […]
‘ Erik Spanberg The Christian Science Monitor, May 25, 2017 “The man who built his support on community outreach and taking back the country from well-heeled corporate interests would, Garrow writes, in the span of a few years go from boasting that 90% of his donations were for $100 or less to beaming alongside Beyoncé […]
Victoria Taft PJ Media, Aug. 10, 2023 “Throughout the years, Obama is alleged to have been a real-life Manchurian candidate, a member of the Down Low Club at Reverend Wright’s church, a cocaine lover, a purveyor of male prostitutes, a man placed in an arranged marriage by his church, and born in Kenya, among other […]
Cody Delistraty Longreads, May 9, 2017 “I believe Barack’s time in Springfield, essentially eight years as a state legislator, is phenomenally important and absolutely essential to understanding the sort of politician he became.” There are few subjects in contemporary history who deserve a 1,400-page biography, but Barack Obama’s ascendance to the presidency merits every […]
Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Origins of Tefillin: Dr. Yehudah Cohn, The Torah.com, Aug. 24, 2016 — Why did the practice of tefillin come into being? The first and second paragraphs of the Shema prayer, found in the Torah readings of Va’ethanan and Eikev respectively, may appear to resolve the issue, ostensibly ordaining the practice of head and arm tefillin. I will try to show that […]
Adrian Karatnycky Foreign Policy, July 11, 2023 “Obama’s Russia policy, including his embrace of the doctrine of Kremlin escalation dominance, has continued to shape U.S. policy during the Trump and Biden administrations.” In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed […]
Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
David Samuels Tablet, Aug. 2, 2023 “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.” There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, […]
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