Mar 15, 2024
David Waldman guides us through the ides.
The big story today concerns Israel, which has been the big story over the lifetime of just about anyone reading this. How do Americans who are Jewish separate their religious, cultural, historical and family identities from Israel’s political, military and moral decisions? I don’t know! So, rather than me Presbyteriansplaining it all to you, let me pass on these links: My Grandfather the Zionist, and The Shoah after Gaza.
Being in Congress is about more than just getting elected, you’d think. But for Republicans, there really isn’t much more than the paycheck left to come in for, and even that isn’t enough for many.
Alexander Yackov Smirnov picked up $600,000 the year he fed false info to the FBI, but that’s hardly his only source of income.
Honest Don might get his lifelong wish, to die of old age before going to prison. President Joe Biden doesn't need guilty verdicts to win, but he sure could use a little more than he has at the moment. Voters still don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be.