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The Jerusalem Post interviews Charles Krauthammer about his efforts to find and bring attention to old Jewish music. Of course the interview inevitably turns to politics and Krauthammer lets loose:

Neoconservatism is deeply out of fashion now, which is fine with me. We're the root cause of every evil on earth, including the rise of the Red River in South Dakota and Minnesota, but I'm very comfortable with its basic views of the world.

It's an entertaining interview and well worth your time. (h/t Crossing the Rubicon)

He's in fine form too, with his weekly column Barack Obama surveys the world, (or here) in which he excoriates the President for his serial equivalencing:

On the one hand, there certainly is some American university where the women's softball team has received insufficient Title IX funds -- while, on the other hand, Saudi women showing ankle are beaten in the street, Afghan school girls have acid thrown in their faces, and Iranian women are publicly stoned to death for adultery. (Gays, as well -- but then again we have Prop 8.) We all have our shortcomings, our national foibles. Who's to judge?

The conclusion:

Distorting history is not truth-telling but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.

With the President's approach, honesty is hardly ever heard.