Oct 19 2009

Did WH Pressure J Street to Drop Poetry Slam?

Why is J Street cancelling an anti-Israel poetry slam at their conference? Could it be White House pressure? According to a statement from J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami to Ben Smith, the poetry slam was cancelled because,

as J Street is critical of the use and abuse of Holocaust imagery and metaphors by politicians and pundits [...]

Jul 8 2009

Piddling Away Greatness

Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — presumably speaking for her boss — doubled down on supporting erstwhile Honduran president and would-be dictator José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (a.k.a. Mel Zelaya) instead of rule of law in Honduras:
A day after failing to land in Honduras to confront the interim government that ousted him in a coup, [...]