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When I was a teen and worked as a summer intern on Capitol Hill, there was a fellow intern, Eitan Gorlin, who worked for Jack Kemp. An Orthodox Jew, Eitan was an extremely good-looking guy on his way to becoming a rabbi. Instead, he became a liberal. Eitan lost his looks, his religion, and his principles (assuming he had any in the first place, didn't know him well, other than "hello" and "good-bye"). He made a disgusting anti-Israel movie--funded by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gorlin--that had a brief, failed run at arthouse movie theaters. Since his career as...

NEW YORK, (AP) -- MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday. David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent. Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at...