This isn’t really my beat, but it strikes me as silly to suggest — as New York Times’ Helene Cooper does — that President Obama needs to “mend fences” with the American Jewish community: The White House effort, which included remarks by senior White House officials before the national leadership conference of the Anti-Defamation League [...]

Maybe I’m being a little too dismissive, but I don’t think it’s necessary to deal with the particulars of Leslie Gelb’s column in today’s Daily Beast, since its main idea patently ridiculous: The negative, even dismissive, talk about the Obama White House has reached a critical point. The president must change key personnel now. Unless [...]

You Never Forget Your First Debate, but in case you do forget it, or like, never watched it in the first place, here are the undebatably top 10 best moments from Friday Night’s debate. 1) Host Jim Lehrer tries to provoke a presidential man love/hate catfight: "talk to each other about it. We’ve got five [...]

Remember when implied racism was enough for the GOP?