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Rudy Giuliani Makes Strong Showing in Tonight’s Florida Republican Debate
January 25, 2008
Maybe I’m thinking with my heart, but I believe the polls will get it at least somewhat wrong in Florida. Especially after Rudy Giuliani’s strong showing in tonight’s Republican debate in Boca Raton.
A few...
The Only Violence Hollywood Won’t Show is the U.S. Getting the Bad Guys
January 23, 2008
Tonight Dennis Miller appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, discussing Oscar-nominated movies. Although he ribbed (pun intended) Keira Knightly of Atonement for her svelte figure (beats me how he could, she is so heartbreakingly beautiful),...
So Far, it Seems to be Guilt by Association with Rezco for Obama
January 23, 2008
Thanks to Leo Drew for the comment re: Hillary’s attacks on Obama. I watched the videos Mr. Drew sent, and at least one correction to my earlier post is in order. According to both ABC News and CNN, Rezko’s contributions to Obama’s various...
Those Dems Fight Like Cats and Dogs, Especially Hillary
January 22, 2008
Tonight I watched the Democratic debate from South Carolina. For anyone who didn’t see it, Hillary and Barack were scrapping like wild and Edwards was piping in with his usual warmed over class warfare spiel. Most striking were...
Satrapi on the Arbiters of Moral Purity in the Ayatollah’s Iran
January 16, 2008
Marjane Satrapi’s excellent film “Persepolis,” the true story of a girl’s coming of age in 1970’s and 1980’s Iran, examines the misogyny and general brutality of the 1979 Iranian...
Thank You, Ms. Eden
January 12, 2008
A big thanks to my friend and former Daily News editor Dawn Eden for inviting me to guest blog yesterday at http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html
Ms. Eden is to the blogosphere what candlelight is to a face: an illumination...
His Right Hand Man on Ariel Sharon: Humanitarianism Was Strong in Him
January 10, 2008
“If Israel is an apartheid state, how come Saudi Arabian women are coming to Hadassah and other hospitals [in Israel] for fertility treatments?” asks Dr. Raanan Gissin, former right hand communications man to Ariel Sharon. The question,...
Hillary Earned It, the O-Bomb Just Showed Up
January 9, 2008
Am I the only non-leftist who’s glad to see Hillary take New Hampshire? It’s not that I give her points for crying, but there was something far-fetched about the media’s anointing of Obama after his win in just one state.
Obama’s a...
Israel’s Christian Sudanese Friends
January 2, 2008
Yesterday Israel’s Ma’ariv carried my opinion piece on the Christian Sudanese refugees in Israel. It was translated into Hebrew, but I have pasted the English version below.
Also, today The New York Sun carries the tragic news from Khartoum...
Israel’s Sudanese Friends
January 1, 2008
Reprinted from Ma’ariv January 1, 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset recently that while he would like to grant asylum to 489 Muslim refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region to protect them from genocide, he is inclined to send...