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Peter BeinartTrite, Not Courageous
(David Bernstein) Peter Beinart has written a scathing indictment of organized American Jewry?s ?conservative? views on Israel. He claims that ?right-wing? Israeli policies, combined with American Jewish groups? unflinching support for Israel, are alienating young American Jews, and reducing their attachment to Israel...

Beinart Gets It, Many Left Blogs Don't
Who'da thunk it? In the Washington Post today, Peter Beinart echoes my thoughts: When Democrats worry about the backlash that awaits Barack Obama if he defends civil liberties, or endorses withdrawal from Iraq, or proposes unconditional negotiations with Iran, they are seeing ghosts...

Good Advice, Incredibly Dumb Argument
First, let me say that everything written by Peter Beinart, an Editor-at-Large of The New Republic and currently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is not dumb. Second, the advice he gives Obama in a Washington Post OpEd today to abandon race-based for class-based affirmative action is good ? good for Obama, good for the country...

No, Not That David Bernstein:
I received a voice mail and email message asking me, "Are you the David Bernstein who is involved with the Moroccan clementine market?"...

Peter Bernstein, Risk-Management Pioneer, Passes Away at 90
I report with sorrow that Peter L. Bernstein, all of whose books I have on my shelf, has passed away at the age of 90. The WSJ has a lovely...

Obama 2012 Prediction
The NRO blog uses this to make fun of Obama, but it's actually an incredible obstacle to be faced in 2012:A few hours after watching a faux McLaughlin Group in Watchmen, I caught the real one, in which Jonah's buddy, Peter Beinart, predicted that even if Obama's efforts to resuscitate the economy do not work, the American public will give him credit for trying...

David Hasselhoff Divorce
Baywatch star reaches settlement in family lawsuit.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...