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The BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has rejected allegations that he is anti-Semitic after he tweeted an offensive message against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his speech to Congress last week. As Netanyahu was speaking, Bowen noted that he had mentioned Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, and added, “Once again Netanyahu plays the holocaust [sic] card”. Bowen immediately faced attacks on Twitter over his comment and, on the Jewish Chronicle website, Alan Johnson wrote that Bowen’s comments were a “bloody disgrace”. …

"She's a former first lady, a United States senator, and a potential 2008 presidential candidate. But to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, all of that pales in comparison to her real childhood dreams," reported Newsday in an attempted puff piece on the junior Senator from New York. "My whole life has been a speed bump," she said to laughs." Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Failed at everything she ever tried, so she decided to go into politics. And this woman wants to be President? "'I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,' Clinton said Monday at...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies announced that former President Bill Clinton will be keynote speaker and accept its "Louis E. Martin Great American" Award for his commitment to civil rights throughout his political career at its Annual Dinner, April 11 at the Hilton Washington and Towers. "We are pleased to have President Clinton join us at our dinner," said Togo D. West, Jr., President and CEO of the Joint Center. "He has been a tremendous fighter for justice and equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. His unwavering support for civil rights and human rights has...

Massachusetts Republicans, November presents the opportunity you've been waiting for all your lives. After Lard Ass's appalling behaviour at this week's Alito hearings, he is finally nationally (internationally?) exposed as the fat, drunken, left-wing oaf he is. He is seen by all the world as a bloody disgrace! Surely, millions of Massachusetts voters must be wondering what the hell they have representing them in Washington. Given LA Kennedy's advanced age and clearly failing mental capacity, this will be the last chance to kick him to the curb. It will also be the best chance. Get your act together and run...