The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Another Week of Aiding Israel and Assorted Corruption Is it really a government or some kind of ponzi scheme? Philip Giraldi   One’s morning ritual has become something unpleasant over the past year. Opening up the computer homepage after breakfast invariably brings up the image of the Orangeman who unfortunately is otherwise known as the president of the United States of America. The person in question, who goes by the name Donald J Trump, is invariably scowling, radiating hatred, and raising his tiny fist to express his willingness to pummel anyone who has offended him in thought, word or deed. The accompanying article usually describes how he is ready to fire someone in the government or punish a journalist for failure to bow and scrape when they are dealing with the imperial presence of the self-described “Man of Peace.” Occasionally, when on a roll, Trump threatens to kill either an “enemy” or even an entire group or nation full of people if they offend him. He justifie...

  PATRICK LAWRENCE: AIPAC’s Anxieties The Israel lobbies’ grip on U.S. politics has slipped beyond restoration since Oct. 7, 2023 due to the Zionist army’s own savagery in Gaza.   Charlie Kirk speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Gage Skidmore/ Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0) By  Patrick Lawrence I f Charlies Kirk’s well-documented defection from the Zionist cause confirmed one thing above all others, it is that the Israeli lobbies’ grip on American politics has slipped—measurably, and I would say beyond any kind of restoration—since the events of Oct. 7, 2023. It would take more hasbara than the Israelis could ever produce to persuade me Kirk did not pay for his abandonment of the Christian– Zionist orthodoxy when he was assassinated before a crowd of conservative youth last Sept. 10. Andrew Cockburn  has an excellent piece on this question  in the current edition of  Harper’s , published under the headline “Turning Point.” And...

 Know your masters... Media Attack Jesus and Mary—While the Hanukkah Myth is Protected from Scrutiny A Double Standard Put on Trial Michael Hoffman Adam Gopnik, writing in the March 31, 2025 issue of the highbrow  New Yorker  magazine in an article titled “We’re Still Not Done with Jesus,” re-enacts a dreary ritual which has been performed repeatedly by the  New York Times  and other “prestigious” publications, television networks and Hollywood movies. He begins by portraying anti-Christian academic Elaine Pagels as a moderate critic of Christian orthodoxy, after which he favorably surveys the latest tomes of anti-Christian polemic, thereby propagating the movement. Mr. Gopnik excludes the dissenting views of traditional Christian scholars who could have offered a cogent defense of the Faith contra Pagels’ latest book,  Miracles and Wonder . But why bother with fairness or balance? The  New Yorker  is a publication which indulges its predilection ...