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Norman Podhoretz

Jesus For Jews, Or Something Like That

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Commentary Magazine, Evangelical Christians, Edith Schaeffer, Religious Right, Francis Schaeffer, Christian Zionism, Israel and Christians, Neoconservative Jews, Norman Podhoretz, Jews for Jesus, Christian Proselytizing, John Hagee, Chosen People, Christians and Israel, Religion News
Frank Schaeffer

There is no way to get on the inside of the who-is-chosen question without unpacking the quirky relationship Evangelicals have with Jews, both embracing them and condemning them to eternal damnation.

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Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Joe the Plumber, Milton Friedman, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Michael Gallagher, George W. Bush, Conservatism, Wurzelbacher, Conservative, Jude Wanniski, David Brooks, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bloom, Leo Strauss, The Huffington Post, Republican Party, Lord Acton, Plumber, MIchael Barone, Norman Podhoretz, William F. Buckley Jr., President Barack Obama, Stephen Moore, Wurzelbacharian Historicism, F.A. Hayek, Book Review, Sean Hannity, "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream" Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Conservatives, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Laffer, PearlGate Publishing, The Daily Kos, Plumbing, Wurzelbacherism, Comedy News
Joseph A. Palermo

Wurzelbacher's deep understanding of the intellectual umbilical cords of modern conservatism is why Mike Gallagher and Sean Hannity have offered their high praise of his work.

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Sarah Palin, Neocon Messiah

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Robert Scheer, Neoconservative, Norman Podhoretz, Israel, William Kristol, Jewish, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Judge them by their enemies. More evidence that Barack Obama might be shaping up as a good president is that Norman Podhoretz hates him so much.

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OK, Sarah Palin Might Be Stupid, but Why Is That Bad?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Neoconservatives, Michael Wolff, Norman Podhoretz, Necons, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Michael Wolff

The neocons have a problem. The neocon wing of the Republican Party is the egghead wing, the foreign policy wing, the Jewish wing. So what to do about Sarah Palin, who is, relatively speaking, the antithesis of all of those things?

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A "Liberal Jew" Responds to Norman Podhoretz

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jews, Jewish Liberals, Norman Podhoretz, Conservatives, American Values, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Liberlas, Jewish Values, Democrats, America, Jewish, Republicans, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

The American system did make good on its promises for Jews; this is why so many Jews refuse to support the conservative politics of exclusion and fear. Podhoretz would have us chop down the ladder behind us.

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Norman Podhoretz's Jewish Question

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Jews, Norman Podhoretz, Liberalism, Media News
Jonathan Weiler

It's Podhoretz's larger ethical vision that is most relevant to his incapacity to understand why the vast majority of Jews don't see things the way he does.

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Expulsion? Joe Wilson Stole the Air Waves and Disgraced the Nation

Beau Friedlander | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Joint Session, Norman Podhoretz, Megan Carpentier, Michelle Chen, Illegal Immigrants, The Week, Health Care Reform, Race Wire, Obama, Joe Wilson, Huffington Post, Media News
Beau Friedlander

We're spending too much time thinking about Wilson, and not enough time discussing how absurd it is that Obama and this Democratic majority can't push through a strong public option.

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President Obama Offers Iran "A Promise of a New Day"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's promise of a new day in U.S.-Iranian relations must be given the opportunity to bear fruit free from outside intervention.

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Sam Stein

Giuliani's Hawks Split Between McCain And Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bob Kasten, Advisers, Republican Primary, Norman Podhoretz, Rudy Giuliani, Daniel Pipes, Islamic Terrorism, Mccain, Foriegn Policiy, 2008 Election, Foreign Policy Advisers, Romney, Politics News

Former New York City Rudy Giuliani has made up his mind as to whom, in the wake of his failed presidential bid, he will support for the Republican nom...

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"Bomb Iran" Scholar: Rudy Invited Me To Discuss "World War IV"

New York Observer | Jason Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Norman Podhoretz, 2008 Presidential Race, Rudy Giuliani, World War IV, Politics News

Norman Podhoretz believes that America needs to go to war soon with Iran. As far as he knows, Rudy Giuliani thinks the same thing. "I was asked to co...

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