The Rick Warren controversy and Barack's bad timing
Mary Shaw One of the many big political stories of the past few days is Barack Obama's newest pastor problem. Obama has chosen Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation. This is the same Rick Warren, of the ironically named Saddleback… more »
Fighting Within
Gilad Atzmon Interviews Sid Shniad (IJV Canada) Recently I have been corresponding with Sid Shniad (1), a founding member of Canadian Independent Jewish Voice (Canadian IJV) (2). Those who are familiar with my writing are well aware of the fact that I… more »
Gore Vidal: The Prodigious Pessimist
Jonathan Raban Gore Vidal with beloved cat Baby Brown. In the grand sweep of Vidal's aquiline view, American history has been a succession of tragic follies, and his essays, in their still-uncollected totality, amount to a massive prose Dunciad of… more »
Try that One on for Size: Al-Zaidi Puts Iraq Back on the Map
Remi Kanazi I can't lie. I've watched Iraqi journalist Montather Al-Zaidi whip those two shoes past George Bush's head more times than I can count. I loved it; I even got into the corny jokes about the Red Sox drafting Al-Zaidi in the spring (cementing… more »
New Arctic Meltdown Rates Cut Little Ice With Governments
Andrew Glikson It is a good question whether the Australian government, having effectively abandoned any meaningful attempt at the arrest of accelerating climate change, would have changed its White Paper in view of rising melt rates of Arctic Sea ice,… more »
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