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13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Elephant at AIPAC · 1 reply · +5 points

AIPAC is like the character in the old joke about the cattle car en route to Auschwitz who tells another "passenger" who asks for water, "Quiet! You don't want to make trouble!"

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Can Jewish Groups Spea... · 1 reply · +15 points

It's a disgrace to see AIPAC and similar organizations following the reasoning of the old Jew-in0the-cattle-car joke and saying, "Shush! You don't want to make trouble."

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Bloomberg’s Quest fo... · 0 replies · +3 points

"There’s a reason that, as Rendell put it to the Times, he often hears it described as 'the second most difficult job in the country.'”

Maybe that reason is that it was John Lindsay's reelection slogan – It's the second-toughest job in America – to explain away a first term of dogmatic ineptitude.

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - On National Defense, Q... · 0 replies · +1 points

As Stalin said, and proved with huge masses of ill-trained, ill-equipped troops during World War II, quantity has a quality all its own.

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Remembering Jason Dunham · 1 reply · +3 points

The actual standards for naming warships is not as bad as the post implies.

Destroyers have been traditionally named, and still are, for heroes and US naval leaders. The first of the latest class (DDG-1000) was named after CNO Elmo Zumwalt and the second after Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor, a posthumous Medal of Honor recipient.

Carriers are named for presidents and congresspeople, Lewis and Clark class cargo and ammunition ships are named for explorers.

Out of literally hundreds of US warships, only 11 have been named for people living at the time. Naming a nuclear attack submarine (SSN-709) after Hyman Rickover and a sealift ship (TAKR-300) after Bob Hope had obviously apolitical, naval connections.

For more information, see http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14158...

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Taking the Views of th... · 0 replies · +5 points

It's a key lesson of effective advertising and marketing communication: what's important to you isn't necessarily important to your audience, and in the marketplaces of products and of ideas alike, you stress the former over the latter at your peril.

14 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Romney Outraised Obama... · 0 replies · +1 points

He's also outspending Obama in June. See http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-outspends-...

14 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Hollande Win Will Boos... · 0 replies · +3 points

You mean there's such a thing as a pro-Israel left?

14 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Put Palestinian Tactic... · 0 replies · +1 points

"As France’s World War One leader, Georges Clemenceau, said, 'military justice is to justice as military music is to music.'”

According to the sources below, the world geopolitical figure who said that was Groucho Marx.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/
quotes/g/q100232.html
http://www.musicthoughts.com/t/514
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/848.html

14 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Dudamel is Not Another... · 0 replies · -1 points

No, Dudamel is not another Toscanini.

He's another von Karajan.

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