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Hate Rape: The Kids Say It's OK

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

The United Nations has long been so uniformly corrupt on the subject of Israel that anytime it ekes out an acknowledgement of attacks on the Jewish state -- however reluctantly, belatedly and perfunctorily it does so -- it's a man-bite-dog story. Last week, a U.N. official who had clearly drawn the bureaucratic short straw issued a "report" of ...Read more

College Daze: On Campuses As In Newsrooms, Orthodoxy Rules

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

In a recent piece in The Atlantic, former New York Times staffer Adam Rubenstein went public with his firsthand account of what has become the classic story of the Times' surrender to the orthodoxy of a certain political set. In 2020, after white policemen murdered George Floyd, protests of police brutality, long an under-recognized feature of...Read more

Ostrich Days: Democracy on the Line, Americans Decide Whether to Fight or Fold

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

"Sometimes the more absurd the lie, the more effective it is," observed a former United Nations official in "Kiss the Future," the new documentary produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck about the resilience of Sarajevo's residents under fire from Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic's killers during the 1990s. The documentary recounts the ...Read more

Qatar Connection: American Universities Have Some Explaining To Do

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

Columbia may be the gem of the ocean, but the Ivy League university in New York that bears its name has become known as American academia's preeminent breeding and stomping ground for antisemites posing as progressives. As a House Committee put it last Monday in a document demand served on Columbia University administrators, "An environment of...Read more

The President's Tightrope: Biden Steers Between the Necessary and the Popular

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

Civil War lore has it that after Gen. Ulysses S. Grant turned the Union's lackluster war performance around, his critics complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Grant's heavy drinking. "I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks," Lincoln replied. "I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."

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Baked Squad: Hard-Left Democrats May Be in for a Thinning

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

In the Greek fable of Icarus and Daedalus, the former ignores his father's warnings about hubris and, in particular, flying too close to the sun. The rest, as they say, is mythology: Icarus flew too high, had his wings melted and fell to his demise. To put it another way: what goes up must come down.

So it may be this year with The Squad, a ...Read more

Corrupt Enterprise: A Poisoned, Poisonous UN Agency in Gaza Faces the Music

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

It is Albert Einstein who is credited with observing that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." If that is so, it is finally coming to light that those who have defended the U.N.'s special agency for Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works Administration (UNRWA), have been guilty of a kind of ...Read more

Married to the Mob: Democrats Can't Cater to the Fringe

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

With the presidential election in sight, pundits are breathlessly assessing just how damaged President Joe Biden supposedly is by dissatisfaction from his party's hard left over his disinclination to drink their brand of Kool Aid on the Mideast conflict. College students overdosed on TikTok and faculty whose yearning to ingratiate themselves ...Read more

Tick Tock: As the Hostages' Lives Count Down, Hamas Has Reason To Smile

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

While Israeli and American hostages sit, bloody and terrified, chained, bound and caged in underground dungeons in Gaza, their kidnappers were given yet more encouragement last week. The latest helping hand to Hamas was extended by the government of South Africa, a staunch Hamas ally, which has filed a charge in the International Court of ...Read more

Dead Center: On America's Right and On Its Left, A Certain Madness

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for evidence that America's political center has disintegrated, 2023 was a banner year, with a bumper crop of proof that a certain madness has enveloped both the right and the ...Read more

Genocide Jujitsu: The Hamas Lobby Flips the Facts

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

Nearly 80 years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda remains the go-to source for how-to advice on large-scale con-artistry. "The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly," Joseph Goebbels reportedly ...Read more

Tunnel Vision: Congress Prepares to Investigate Taxpayer Subsidies of Hamas

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

It emerged over the weekend that the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to investigate the use of American taxpayers' dollars to fund the Murder, Inc. that is Hamas. With the revelations that billions of donor dollars that were supposed to be used for humanitarian aid for Gazans have instead been diverted to construct a network of terror ...Read more

Immunity Disorder: The Man Who Would Be King Comes Out and Says So

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

"There's a recklessness in the air in America" was the elegant yet apt way ABC News journalist Terry Moran put it on Friday evening. Moran made the observation in the context of Rudy Giuliani's misbegotten belief that he could egregiously defame two Georgia poll workers and get away with it. He didn't. The "Say Anything" ethos Giuliani appears...Read more

 

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