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Obama Served Up a Zionist Version of Mom and Apple Pie at AIPAC Conference
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Brad Hirschfield
Not, as Jerry Seinfeld would say, that there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, in reading the transcript of his address, I loved everything he had to say. But it did strike me as funny that Obama hit every base in the Jewish game without offering very much in the way of details about how…
Family Arguments
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Jeff Sharlet
I’m be talking with Natasha Chart and the folks at OpenLeft for a book salon about The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, my new history of the “avant-garde” of American fundamentalism. It’s a story that spans from the early days of the Republic to the political ferment of the 1930s…
Bomb Throwers and Hall Monitors
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Jeff Sharlet
Mark Silk, an eminent scholar of religion, politics, and journalism, takes issue with my Casting Stones post on the how the press is re-arranging its account of Obama’s ascent now that his victory is assured: Jeff Sharlet is guest-blogging on Beliefnet, and at the end of his most recent post writes: The new media narrative,…
Obama’s AIPAC Speech: The Transcript
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dgilgoff
Remarks at AIPAC Policy Conference Senator Barack Obama June 4, 2008 As Prepared for Delivery It’s great to see so many friends from across the country. I want to congratulate Howard Friedman, David Victor and Howard Kohr on a successful conference, and on the completion of a new headquarters just a few blocks away. Before…
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