Good point and good catch here from Jeremy Peters on how the Netanyahu speech is planned essentially as a campaign event …
Before the Israeli elections in 2013, Mr. Netanyahu’s political coalition broadcast an advertisement that showed the prime minister addressing a joint meeting of Congress. The commercial’s message: “When Netanyahu speaks, the world listens.”
Two years later, Mr. Netanyahu is again set to address Congress. This time, he faces criticism, both at home and abroad, that he is turning a diplomatic visit into a political opportunity. Many Democrats already consider him an unwelcome guest because he was invited by congressional Republicans before Mr. Obama was informed.
Ed Kilgore laments that conservatives don’t believe President Obama shows enough pride or aggression to be a true Christian.
A 46 year old man shot and killed three Muslim college students yesterday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We’ll be reporting more as we get more information through the day.
“Nearly every state in the Union offers parents an exemption from vaccinating their children based on their religious beliefs — despite research showing that virtually no organized religion declares an opposition to vaccinations.”
Catherine Thompson looks at how anti-vaccine parents use ‘religious exemptions’ to game the vaccination system.
It’s getting more than a little tiring seeing right-wing foxbots increasingly using “Jews” as a kind of bizarre team mascot or rhetorical piñata in their petty partisan antics. For Republicans, we really should rename the Redskins The Washington Jews. What would we Jews do without goyisha outrage hounds like Dana Perino protecting us from well, ourselves?
We know about the old distinction between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor. Now for some rightwing keyboards warriors we appear to see a comparable difference between hostages, captured soldiers and so forth. When they die or are in held for ransom we honor and hold out hope for them. Except if they’re a little Islamy or had bad politics or actually did some things that were wrong (thinking about Bowe Bergdahl in latter case), then all bets are off. So now you have anti-Islam hardliners trashing the latest ISIS victim as a “Jew-Hating, Anti-Israel Bitch.” The death of these hostages is tragic, except if they didn’t have the right politics.
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In surprising move, GOP Senator breaks with caucus, says they should do their job and fund the DHS – give up Ted Cruz inspired immigration doofus crusade.
Bibi: If you have a problem with our POTUS’s foreign policy meet me at AIPAC but not on the House floor. pic.twitter.com/HN7eLaIbg1
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