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My favorite part of this week's crack up of the New York legislature is Governor Patterson's plea, "Think of the lobbyists!" My
next favorite part is that Tom Golisano, the businessman who seems to
have prodded two Democratic state senators into flipping to the GOP and
instigating a Republican takeover, says he got mad at the Dems after a
meeting at which Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith couldn't take his eyes off his BlackBerry. Ah, the BlackBerry brush off. I think I'd put that at the top of a list of digital age breaches of etiquette. As in... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The crazy thing though, Hanna, about the fringe obsession with Obama and Jewish conspiracy
is that it's happening even as the Jews who worried that Obama wouldn't
show enough allegiance to Israel are worrying more. Before the
election, Obama the candidate held the hands of the little old Jewish
ladies with blue hair in Florida who want a president who will put
Israel first no matter what—even when the Israeli government doesn't
necessarily deserve that kind of fealty—and reassured them that he
wouldn't move even the teeniest step away from Bush's Israel stance. (I
won't call it pro-Israel, because I don't think it actually works out
that way all the time.) And in the end... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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What is it with Obama and the Jews? Ever since he chose Rahm Emanuel, the child of an Israeli, as his chief of staff, conspiracy theories have raged about Obama's connection to the Jews... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com.)
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Ever since Hedda Nussbaum’s battered face appeared on the cover of tabloids in 1987, the wives of insane, violent men have faced a particularly cruel kind of scrutiny. Nussbaum called herself the victim of “intimate terrorism,” but the world judged her culpable for failing to protect her adopted 6-year-old daughter from her murderous husband. The BTK Killer had a wife and children. James von Brunn, the white supremacist who allegedly shot two people at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday, does too... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com.)
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Lera Loeb, fashion blogger and self-described "mail-order bride," takes to the pages of Glamour to defend her relationship. Given the power a citizen can wield over a foreigner desperate for a green card, we're all familiar with stories of this kind that end badly. But Loeb's marriage is happy, and hers is a story about stigma... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com.)
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