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The JTA's Bizarro Attack on Neo-Cons By IRA STOLL The Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ron Kampeas, has posted a screed against neoconservatives on that organization's Web site. "For eight years we in Washington lived in a bizarro world where the most obvious conclusions were not just ignored, but mocked, actively suppressed and made akin to treason," he said. Now, "neoconservatives are losing," because of "their failure, or their abject inability, to say 'I was wrong.'" He writes, "The Bush administration had not merely an aversion but a psychotic fear of saying 'We wuz wrong.'" By ALICIA COLON President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has unleashed, among other things, a cascade of emails into my computer from friends remarking on the similarities of our backgrounds. I, too, am a Newyorican who lived in a housing project. Mine was in Spanish Harlem, hers in the Bronx, and we both went to parochial schools. Our fathers passed away when we were young, and our mothers struggled to support our families. We also speak perfect unaccented English and are both Catholic. SETH LIPSKY: Ideal of the Scoop Related: SETH GITELL: George Bush, Democrat? LENORE SKENAZY: Putting the Great in Recession DANIEL JOHNSON: Dubious Defense of Democracy HILLEL HALKIN: Long Walk With Lipsky ERIC GIOIA: What New York Owes Vets LAWRENCE KUDLOW: Debating Paulson's Bailout: Win-Win for Taxpayers LUIGI ZINGALES: Debating Paulson's Bailout: It's a Big Price ANDREW WOLF: School Change We Can Believe In KENNETH BLACKWELL: Reason's Debt To Faith DAVID SHRIBMAN: Voters Come Home ABRAHAM FOXMAN: The Dangerous Brew MARK GILBERT: Where To Stash One's Winnings? PATRICK McILHERAN: Is 'Clean' Clean Enough? MARCUS WINTERS: Time for McCain To Answer DANIEL JOHNSON: Deafening Silence KENNETH BLACKWELL: Obama's Patriotic Tonic R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.: 'The Taranto Principle' JOHN McWHORTER: Long Live the SATs JAY AKASIE: Closed Doors at Episcopal Church
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