It Begins: Jewish Organizations In DC Today For Iran Push
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 11th, 2009 4:35 am by HL
It Begins: Jewish Organizations In DC Today For Iran Push
Check out this press release announcing Iran Advocacy Day. It’s today and it marks the start of the fall push on Iran The United Jewish Communities (formerly called UJA) is about as mainstream a Jewish organization as exists in this…
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Why the Death of Why? Celebrified Journalism & Right-Wing Lynch Mobs
Andrea’s book, The Death of Why, could not come out at a more appropriate time. It’s premise has unfortunately become a truism – in the American Idiocracy, we have stopped asking even the simplest questions, much less the tough…
Sponsored Topics: Right-wing politics – Warfare and Conflict – Iraq War – Glenn Beck – Van Jones
Outliers: We Stand On Guard For Thee
I did something embarrassing this past summer. I bought and read the (then) #1 non-fiction best seller: Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. I expected the usual Gladwell, smart, off-beat, the distiller of academic psychological data for people responsible for judging (and perhaps…
Sponsored Topics: Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success – Canada – United States – History