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Now, why oh why would Taylor Lorenz go to such great lengths to make an issue of LibsOfTikTok’s faith? One has to wonder if she would have included this little nugget in her hit piece if LOTT had been a Muslim, or an atheist, or even a Catholic. This seems … oddly hateful. Seth Mandel said it far better than we can. Special Passover "catch the Joo" edition of the Washington Post. America 2022, fun times pic.twitter.com/NCIuTXtX8g — Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 19, 2022 Fun times indeed. Democracy Dies in the Original German — Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 19, 2022...

We trust Seth Mandel, but we had to check for ourselves to be sure. In answer to the question, “Why are Republicans so obsessed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” the editors of New York Magazine are compiling a book of essays on AOC that will be released February 1. As Mandel points out, there will be essays on subjects from AOC’s beauty to her social media greatest hits. Amazon’s description reads, in part:An engaging, all-encompassing biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the bestselling tradition of Notorious RBG and Pelosi that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of American...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just got a humbling lesson in the power of anti-Semitism: It can’t be bribed away with a plum subcommittee appointment or threatened out with a primary challenge. Watching the utter disaster that unfolded when congressional leaders suggested making a simple, full-throated condemnation of anti-Semitism, I tried to think of something less surprising. I couldn’t. This began bad for the Jews; it ended bad for the Jews; and in the middle was a whole heaping pile of bad for the Jews. Last week, after freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., had made the latest in a series...

Glad they waited until the eve of the cloture vote to make this clear, after a week of theorizing by chumps like me and days spent by the FBI interviewing people named on Kavanaugh’s calendar on that date. Christine Blasey Ford would have ruled out a key date that both Republicans and Democrats have examined in evaluating her sexual assault claim against Brett Kavanaugh, had the FBI contacted her for its inquiry, according to a member of her team…But a member of Ford’s team said the California-based professor — who was not interviewed by the FBI for its inquiry...

So here’s Obama’s opinion: Ukraine should not get military aid from the West because even with American help, Russia would still mop the floor with them. And this, according to the Times, is what Obama thinks will intimidate Putin into signing a peace treaty. I’ll offer the president some free advice: telling Putin the world is too weak to stop him isn’t very intimidating. Yet even if the West got Putin to sign on to a new agreement, nothing will have been accomplished. Putin has been violating the last ceasefire agreement, because there’s no one to enforce it. What Obama,...

At a luncheon for the Ohio Bankers League here earlier this week, the man introducing Iraq War veteran and U.S. Senate hopeful Josh Mandel joked that running as a Republican in Cleveland is as challenging as a third tour of duty in the Middle East. It's a line that Mandel, who was elected to the state House of Representatives from a Cleveland suburb in 2006, said he wished he had thought of before, and it's one voters are bound to hear often as the 34-year-old state treasurer (he won that election in 2010) campaigns to unseat incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown...