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Patrick Lawrence: That New Hunter Biden Indictment

Patrick Lawrence: That New Hunter Biden Indictment

December 14, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

It’s a Limited Hangout. Before wading through the latest indictment of Hunter Biden, this one for nine counts of assorted tax violations, we must consider briefly the record of David Weiss, the special counsel who signed the 56–page document made…

Patrick Lawrence: Gaza Divides the World, Again

Patrick Lawrence: Gaza Divides the World, Again

December 7, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Strong Nations and the Merely Powerful. My award for courageous elocution of the week goes hands-down to Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, who addressed the General Assembly last Tuesday on the topic of Israel and its barbaric…

Patrick Lawrence: Undivided Loyalties

Patrick Lawrence: Undivided Loyalties

December 1, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

To What Do We Dedicate Ourselves? There is a story about Walter Lippmann it seems useful to relate as much of humanity lapses into misapprehension, sudden animosities and ferocious divisions along who knows how many lines—political, ideological, religious, partisan, “identitarian.”…

Patrick Lawrence: What Died 60 Years Ago?

Patrick Lawrence: What Died 60 Years Ago?

November 22, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

A President and a Nation’s Promise On January 9, 1953, The Washington Post published an editorial we can read all these years later as a murmur amid a long silence. “Choice or Chance” was a blunt worry about what the…

Patrick Lawrence: ‘The Hinge of History’

Patrick Lawrence: ‘The Hinge of History’

November 14, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Palestine and the New World Order Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, an undeclared red line the Israel Defense Forces dared not cross without provoking international disgust and condemnation. At writing, the IDF is bombing hospitals and, I…

Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Frankenstein

Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Frankenstein

November 8, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

The new wave of violence in Israel and Gaza now enters its second month. More than 10,000 people have been killed, The Associated Press reports, 40 percent of them children. Where is this catastrophe going? What are the limits of…

Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity

Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity

October 31, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Diego Ramos, ScheerPost’s managing editor, forwarded me a video clip last week he thought I ought to see. Sending it under the subject line, “Disturbing trend in Israel,” my colleague must have reckoned I have not been sufficiently shocked by…

Patrick Lawrence: Full-Dress Irrationality

Patrick Lawrence: Full-Dress Irrationality

October 26, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Biden wastes an additional $105 billion. Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public life making it up as…

Patrick Lawrence: Roger Waters and the One-State Solution

Patrick Lawrence: Roger Waters and the One-State Solution

October 18, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Breaking the silence. When the topic is Israel, you have to be very precise if you write for The New York Times opinion page. There is no endorsing the racist grotesques who sit in a coalition with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s…

Patrick Lawrence: ‘Innocent Israelis’

Patrick Lawrence: ‘Innocent Israelis’

October 11, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

Of all the gruesome images and stomach-turning news reports to come out of Israel since Hamas launched its daring attack across the Gaza border last Saturday, one incident stays stubbornly with me. It occurred early on the morning of the…

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