October 4, 2021

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Is The Billy Mitchell Of The 21st Century

“Be sure you’re right. Then go ahead” – The Davy Crockett Show This is a cautionary tale of two American soldiers. Nearly a century spans the incidents that brought them their notoriety, yet the issues they evoke are exactl...

September 21, 2021

Politics and the Politicization of the US Military

“If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military” – Harry S. Truman Americans traditionally have been wary of a large permanent military establishment, believing it to be a threat to demo...

September 12, 2021

The Twin Towers’ Collapse Is A Metaphor For America’s Fall

“Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction.” Ronald Reagan On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3000 people, most of whom were our fellow Americans, and the full impact of that mon...

August 25, 2021

What should the Biden administration be doing regarding Afghanistan?

The title of this article is somewhat oxymoronic in nature.  The real title should read: "What will the Biden Administration do regarding Afghanistan?" as opposed to what should it do.  As for what we...

January 10, 2021

Twenty-First Century Rules for Revolutionaries

Since George Floyd’s death, events seem to be spiraling out of control. For weeks, Americans were bombarded, almost on a daily basis, with reports of large protests in major cities, accompanied by rioting, looting, burning, assaults, and even m...

January 10, 2021

Censorship in America: A historical perspective

“As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.” Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799) In 1982, seven years after Saigon fell, General William Westmoreland, the f...

January 2, 2021

We Don’t Need To Accept The 'New Normal' The Left Is Forcing On Us

Listening to the media today, one sometimes hears the phrase “new normal.” The dictionary defines normal as “conforming to a norm or standard.” That means it is society that determines what is normal and what is not, depending...

December 23, 2020

Of Merit and Melanin: Identity Politics and the Balkanization of America

On May 22, 2019, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams gave a speech at the Center for American Progress. Ms. Abrams spoke out strongly in her defense of Identity Politics, stating that “Identity Politics is exactly who we are and ex...

March 22, 2019

When They Come for the Jews, They Won't Ask Questions

Albert Einstein observed, "If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.  Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and...

December 28, 2018

American Jewry at the crossroads

On December 27, 2018, the Valencia Isles Israel Club had Zionist pro-Israel activist Alan Bergstein as its guest speaker, discussing "Will Israel Survive?" at Sharei Shalom Synagogue in Boynton Beach, Florida.  Not one Jewish...

May 30, 2015

Of Hydras, Hubris, and Hezb'allah: American foreign policy and the re- making of the Middle East

In classical Greek mythology, the Lernaean hydra was an enormous hideous serpent with numerous heads that ravaged the area around Lerna in the Peloponnese.  According to legend, its very breath was so poisonous that whoever came into contact wit...

February 1, 2015

Obama's Futile Quest for a Leftist Israeli Government

The Obama administration is eagerly anticipating the upcoming Israeli elections, in the hope that a new left wing labor administration will be able to make the necessary "concessions" in the name of peace. If the current US administration a...

December 30, 2014

The Bastinado, The Rack, The Iron Maiden, and the Waterboard: Torture in Historical Perspective

Webster's Third International Dictionary defines torture as the infliction of intense pain in order to punish or coerce someone; or to give sadistic pleasure to the torturer.  In times past, devices such as the Bastinado, the Rack, and the I...

August 22, 2014

The NY Times Reporting of Conflict in the Middle East

The New York Times has long been regarded as the "paper of record" for generations of Americans.聽 Emblazoned on the front page of every edition of the paper is its famous logo, "All the News That's Fit to Print."聽 Countless millions of people from Fl...

February 22, 2014

Prestidigitation and the Mideast Peace Process

Walk the streets of many American cities and you might find a true artiste plying his trade.  The game is called Three Card Monte; and as most experienced police offers will tell you, it is a scam perpetrated by an individual highly skilled in t...