Carl Bloice

Here�s something you probably didn�t read in your local newspaper. It wasn�t in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Blogging from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) conference in Washington, Chris McGreal of the British Guardian wrote: �Ahead of the speeches there has been a foreign policy discussion panel. Among the speakers…

Like most establishment pundits, Thomas Friedman (and apparently most of the rest of the nation) came away from the awful reality show called the Republican Presidential debates quite discouraged. While some prominent conservatives in the party are openly casting about for a way to inject some sanity into the race and perhaps another candidate the…

An alarming headline appeared in the English language Jerusalem Post February 8: �Washington Watch: banging the war drums.� The article below it, written by Douglas Bloomfield, president of Bloomfield Associates Inc., a Washington lobbying and consulting firm, noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, �who has a penchant for dabbling in American politics,� will be…

Noting that a Federal judge in California was slated to soon okay the �largest residential fair-lending settlement in history� ever reached by the Department of Justice in a bias case,� Attorney Anita Hill commented in Time magazine last week that in putting together the deal the U.S. Attorney�s office is to be lauded. She added…

It was fascinating to observe the response, across the political spectrum, to the November unemployment statistics. Pundits on the right and left were quick to correctly point out that there was hardly anything positive or hopeful about the numbers. Republican Michele Bachmann, who opposes extending jobless benefits, hypocritically crowed that “the lower numbers are being…

Wherever Stacey Patton lives she might consider moving because, judging from what she wrote in the Washington Post last Saturday (“Why African Americans aren’t embracing Occupy Wall Street”), she’s been listening to the wrong people. She’s taken to citing someone’s dubious and quite dated headcount and finding only limited black faces at some of the…

The story was leaked and reported over and over by the major news outlets: “a majority of Democrats” on the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “super committee”) were proposing a kind of grand bargain that would undermine Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. There are 12 members of the committee, six of them…