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President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday night is getting high marks from some Jewish leaders. “We felt at home in the speech,” said Rabbi Steve Gutow, executive director of the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, noting that the three main pillars of Obama’s agenda — energy, health care and education — are all major priorities of […]

Dan Froomkin and Think Progress like Chas Freeman. Think Progress talks about a “behind the scenes” effort to torpedo the former envoy to Riyadh’s appointment to a top intel post, although it finds plenty of folks who are ready to say on the record that Freeman’s  unfit. Froomkin thinks Freeman represents a welcome break of […]