Monday link dump: Thinking about tomorrow

By Alex Pareene

If Rand Paul beats Trey Grayson in Kentucky tomorrow, Grayson will blame Fox. If Grayson wins, he will not have many friends at Fox.
And Joe Sestak will most likely beat Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania tomorrow.
Don’t make jokes about blowing up British airports on Twitter, because they’re quite “humourless” about that in the UK.
Peter Beinart’s very good essay on young American Jews and their relationship with Israel and Zionism was supposed to run in The New York Times Magazine instead of The New York Review of Books. But the Times Magazine does not really publish long essays. Ezra Klein facetiously asks why the essay didn’t run in Beinart’s old magazine, the New Republic, but he doesn’t explain his joke: it’s funny because TNR is still published by Marty Peretz, a fanatically anti-Arab hawk who calls every liberal Jew self-hating.
The Corner’s Andy McCarthy wants to know why we don’t apply Sharia law to juveniles convicted of various crimes.

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