Last night’s McCain/Obama debate was pretty much a draw, suspending any partisan sentiment. Obama was strong out of the starting gate; He is certainly smooth, and he knows how to play on people’s concerns on the sensitive economic front. But on foreign policy, McCain’s experience showed, and his character shone.
He …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
“We agreed we wanted a life that had an open home,” says Jodi Samuels, co-founder of Jewish International Connection New York, a nonprofit organization that provides a home away from home to immigrant Jews from around …
In today’s American Spectator online, I have a piece about the Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, whose sons were murdered in February 2005 following his visit to Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference there. Over the weekend, I received an alarming e-mail from al-Alusi’s friend Esther Kandel, who alerted me …
Fellow New Yorkers: remember how the rest of the country rallied to our aid after 9/11? With Hurricane Ike bearing down on the people of Texas, the people of New York City have a special opportunity to help their fellow Americans - and hear some great music. This Thursday September …
As anyone who saw it knows by now, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention tonight was electrifying, eloquent, and appropriately tough.
At long last, someone had the guts to drop the political correctness and point out that Barack Obama, while smart and eloquent, does not have the …
Iraq’s Maverick
From The American Spectator
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Last month, Iraqi parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi contacted me by phone from Baghdad with an urgent warning that Iran could be a lot closer to attaining nuclear weapons than most analysts believe.
“Do they have an atom bomb? Not yet,” he told me. …