by Burt Prelutsky
All in all, 2011 provided us with some pretty good news. For one thing, our military took care of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, God got rid of Kim Jong-Il and, for good measure, Barney Frank finally got around to announcing his retirement. It was to be expected that Jimmy Carter, who insisted on
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by Yoram Ettinger
At the outset of 2012, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the “Palestinian issue,” the defining geopolitical and religious schism in the Middle East is boiling, exacerbating violent intra-Muslim fragmentation. The battle inside Islam is taking place on the religious, tribal, ideological and geographical levels. The Syrian death toll is approaching 7,000, trending toward Papa
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Journalism
by Paul EidelbergPolitical journalism is not politically neutral or “value-free.” This may also be said of political science, pretensions to the contrary notwithstanding. The reason is this: The reporting of news, like academic discourse on politics, inevitably involves criteria of importance: some things are intrinsically more important than others. But criteria of importance are not politically neutral.