How Jewish Is Neoconservatism? Against this backdrop, it is all the more unfortunate that the popular imagination has identified neoconservatism so closely with Jewish intellectuals. While describing the many conspiracy theories ... 05/3/2024 - 10:38 am | View Link
Paul Wolfowitz | American Enterprise Institute Discussing Secretary Shultz’s influence over American diplomacy: Ambassador Wolfowitz at the Reagan Foundation. By Paul Wolfowitz. Press. October 11, 2021. 05/2/2024 - 10:45 pm | View Website
Paul Wolfowitz Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and dean of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. 05/2/2024 - 7:08 am | View Website
Decades after 9/11, what became of the US’s neoconservatives? Paul Wolfowitz (left) and Donald Rumsfeld (centre) were key architects of President George W Bush's war strategy after the September 11 attacks [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] 05/1/2024 - 10:32 pm | View Website
Behind the Iraq War, a story of influence, intelligence and ... Yet Bush didn’t start his presidency hellbent on war with Iraq — unlike key advisers such as Wolfowitz. After 9/11, Bush didn’t insist that Iraq somehow must have been behind the attacks ... 05/1/2024 - 9:06 pm | View Website
The Believer | The New Yorker Paul Wolfowitz defends his war. Wolfowitz told me that he had never before visited the memorials, and that, other than a quick stopover, this was his first trip to Poland, even though his father ... 05/1/2024 - 10:36 am | View Website
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
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April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.