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Shutting Down Guantanamo Makes No Common Sense
February 12, 2009
Last week former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration’s national security policies, including holding “hard core” terror suspects at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay,...
Remembering Daniel Pearl
February 5, 2009
This fine piece by Judea Pearl, father of late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, should be required reading for anyone who buys the bull&%$# that terrorism is the expression of “desperation” or constitutes...
Long Live Democracy and the Courage of Ordinary Iraqis
February 3, 2009
Saturday’s provincial elections in Iraq were a great triumph for democracy worldwide and especially for the Iraqi people. William Shawcross in The Guardian has written an excellent column on the subject.
For the first time in...
One for the Other Thumb – Fast, Hard, Creative and Clean!
February 1, 2009
Hard, fast, and creative – but not dirty. That’s the characterization of the Pitsburgh Steelers’s play, and specifically that of safety Troy Polamalu – that all of us here in the ‘Burgh are hoping will carry our home...
Mike, You Did Us Proud
January 30, 2009
Tonight at the Marriott Marquis Times Square, Mayor Michael Bloomberg did us proud. The mayor of New York, Bloomberg recently showed his character by traveling to Israel while that nation was suffering much international condemnation for...
The U.S. is Too Liberal in its Attitude Toward Enemy Combatants at Guantanamo
January 26, 2009
With the talk of President Obama’s decision to dismantle Guantanamo, it seems to me that precious little attention is given to actual facts about the place and about what has become of those detainees who have been released. After...
Monday Was the Day to Celebrate and Honor a Hero. As to Our New President, Let Us Hope
January 20, 2009
Not to take anything away from our new President. But the remarks of a friend yesterday got me thinking. I asked this friend if he, as an African-American (in his case he was born in Africa and is now a U.S. citizen) felt moved by the...
She’s a Righteous Person. And She’s Defending Herself. That’s “the plan.”
January 14, 2009
Anderson Cooper’s discussion tonight with Bill Bennet and James Carville on CNN about Sarah Palin’s belated effort to defend herself from the media’s savaging her revealed something about Mrs. Palin.
Narrating that Mrs. Palin...
An Israeli Perspective on What’s Happening in Gaza: “We are Doing Everything in Our Power Not to Hit Civilians”
January 9, 2009
Numbers alone can be misleading in understanding what is happening this week in Gaza. Such is the message of Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, who offered an Israeli perspective to a gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West...
Iraqi Parliamentarian to His People: “It’s Not Between Palestinians and Israelis, it’s Between Terrorists and Moderates”
January 9, 2009
Just spoke over the phone with Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, head of the Iraqi Nation Party in Baghdad, who advocates normalized relations between the new Iraq and Israel and promotes human rights in the Middle East. He says that,...