Joel Kassiday

After an almost 4-decade career as a newspaper editor and top congressional aide, I am now an independent consultant. 𝗜 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 🇮🇱

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Iran and the U.S. have agreed on a peace deal, the two nations announced Sunday https://t.co/CoBpdPXhLQ

[דרור בלאזאדה | Dror Balazada @DBalazada]

הטלוויזיה האיראנית מאשרת גם באופן רשמי את הה��עה להסכם

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Holding this coward accountable is sound judgment.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If any nation ever launches attack drones and rockets into the USA, I would hope and expect the US government to defend us and pound whoever did it.

If you don’t want Israel to do the same thing, don’t attack Israel.

[Joel Kassiday @Capitolvet]

Great choice: Trump Says He Will Nominate Jay Clayton as Intelligence Director https://t.co/fFVKEWVuX7

[Joel Kassiday @Capitolvet]

@YisraelOfficial 💯

[Dani Homados @homados]

“Further, the exhibit had a book of fatwas or Islamic sharia rulings, including from Qatari Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, justifying the mass murder of unarmed Israeli women and children.“

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

CNN is about to become a news organization again.

Mazel Tov @bariweiss.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.

[Mark Penn @Mark_Penn]

California Votin

There are two key issues and they are related — 1) they allow mail in votes mailed thru Election Day and received a week later and 2) more importantly they allow ballot harvesting which is the mass canvassing and collection of ballots favorable to you.

So this means that a late ballot harvesting operation can be deployed to game the system (ie telling Dems in the last week that bass will be in but we need to squeeze Pratt out).

Obviously Florida now is a model system and California vote counting is a model of how to sow doubt by taking weeks rather than hours to count votes.

And ballot harvesting is banned in most states and should be banned everywhere as it promotes people sitting around tables pressured to vote certain ways as their ballots are collected by partisans. Add loose registration rules in states with a lot of non-citizens and you compound these problems.

Mail in votes should be counted only if received by the time the polls close and ballot harvesting should be banned and those two reforms would return fairness. And of course in California proof of citizenship is essential as well to provide confidence in the count. But it’s the harvesting rules that likely are the most problematic.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Media inversion continues. Headlines only about Israel attacking Hezbollah while leaving out that it is in response to Hezbollah attacks that started on March 2nd and continue daily despite any ceasefire agreements.
https://t.co/xHwh1sP3Cj

[ShipofTheseus @JewishSpaceLazr]

58 years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy's assassination was the first act of Palestinian terrorism on American soil.
Sirhan Sirhan’s diary made his motive crystal clear: ‘RFK must die' due to his support for israel. Sirhan chose the 1st anniversary of the Six Day War to kill RFK.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Israel and Lebanon are at the table negotiating peace.

So the regime in Iran does what it always does. It cannot stand the idea of calm in this region, so tonight it starts bombarding Israel. No provocation. Just violence the moment peace comes within reach.

They tell us Hezbollah is Lebanon.
So why is Iran the one firing at Israel?

Now watch the international media find a way to blame Israel for it.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

In responding to a challenge from Sen. Fetterman to prove that he did not send naked pictures to women, Graham Platner immediately raised the Jews, declaring that Fetterman is a tool of AIPAC. It appears that the tattoo may be obscured, but a certain obsession remains...

[Joel Kassiday @Capitolvet]

@EliAfriatISR He is the patriarch of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions

[Joel Kassiday @Capitolvet]

@EliAfriatISR Abraham

[John Kennedy @SenJohnKennedy]

Jack and Roger were sweet pups.

God is great, dogs are good and people are crazy.

[Joel Kassiday @Capitolvet]

Victor Davis Hanson: Antisemites Should Spare Us the Selective Outrage › American Greatness https://t.co/TKugSK34E7

[Joel Kassiday @Capitolvet]

@davidharsanyi He told me the very same thing

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

In 2006, I interviewed Colorado State University’s Bill Gray about climate alarmism and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. "In 15-20 years, we’ll look back and see what a hoax this was,” the late professor told me. He was right.