From TPM Reader SG …
I am all for a Palestinian state and I have little regard for the Netanyahu government, but I am really tired of seeing folks on the left, people whom I agree with on most other political issues, take seriously the idea of unwinding the whole Zionist enterprise.
It turns out that one of the two New Jersey men arrested on their way to join the jihad in Somalia had an apparent history of violence. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa was placed “on home instruction” three months after starting high school at North Bergen High School in 2004 because school authorities thought he represented a danger to staff and other students. He was taught off-site with a security guard present.
Keep in mind this would have been when he was fourteen. It confirms me to some degree in my thoughts about this from yesterday.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going to the friendly confines of Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business show. That’s where Rand Paul decided to emerge from hiding yesterday. Watch.
Birther queen Orly Taitz was the “special guest” of the Republican Jewish Coalition at a weekend event in California that also featured luminaries like Karl Rove, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and Senate candidates Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina. Taitz is a candidate for secretary of state in the California GOP primary.
I’ve noticed with some interest that none other than Newsmax has garnered a lot of free publicity by saying it’s interested in buying Newsweek, the Washington Post’s soon-to-be-abandoned weekly news magazine. So I’m now considering having TPM officially become a bidder on Blackwater which has just now gone on sale.
Rand Paul on Fox explaining that his critics are preventing a thoughtful discussion of civil rights.
JW checks in from the screechy sectarian left …
The fact that Jews were relentlessly persecuted by European Christians for seventeen hundred years by no stretch of the imagination gave them the right to go and do exactly the same thing to another innocent people. If Americans are so passionate about such a relic of the nineteenth century as the ethno-religious state, then by all means let us give New York to the Jews; Palestine was never ours to give away.
Chickens weren’t the only thing to do in Sue Lowden’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Nevada. Eric Kleefeld surveys Lowden’s long list of unforced errors.
There are a number of big primaries around the country tomorrow night — not least of which are those in Arkansas (Lincoln v. Halter), Nevada and California. We’ve put together a primer on what’s at stake and where the big races are. Read it here. And join us tomorrow night for live results.