May 20, 2012

Jews, Jewish Leftists, and the Anti-Semitic Left

Last week, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research held an extraordinary conference in New York, in which leftist Jew actually took an honest look at leftism's true opinion of Jews.

May 11, 2012

President Obama's Luxurious Schedule

According to the daily schedules posted on the White House website, President Obama's official day usually starts at 10 a.m. with his daily briefing.

February 29, 2012

What Needs to Come Out of the Obama-Netanyahu Meeting

It will be critical for Obama and Netanyahu to emerge from their March 5 meeting with a realistic red line and a deadline for action on Iran's nukes. Right now there is neither.

February 11, 2012

When the Sun Was His Smile

A review of In Darkness, one of this year's five nominees for Best Foreign Film.

June 3, 2011

A 'Brain-Dead Liberal' Awakens

David Mamet, America's foremost dramatist, turns conservative, and tells the world why.

May 3, 2011

The Coming Crisis at the UN -- and How Not to Waste It

The Palestinian decision to seek UN recognition in September of a Palestinian state with borders on the pre-June 1967 lines is a threat and an opportunity.

June 1, 2010

ABC Bashes Bush on Memorial Day

Protecting Obama from criticism.

February 1, 2010

Deficits you can believe in

Another dubious record - a deficit of $1.6 trillion for this year.

January 29, 2010

A Citizen's Guide to the Constitution

An important book for two groups: those who are conversant with the Constitution and those who are not.

January 15, 2010

More than a straw in the wind in Massachusetts

"Can you hear us now?"

January 13, 2010

John Kerry displays his usual grace

Is tone deaf John F. Kerry showing signs of panic trying to raise money for Coakley?

September 8, 2009

Challenging the Torah of Liberalism

For many modern Jews, conversion from liberalism to conservatism is roughly equivalent to what conversion to Christianity was to their ancestors in Eastern Europe.

August 4, 2009

Reimagining Government

The section of the White House website entitled "Delivering on Change" has been changed, revising some of its more audacious claims

October 22, 2008

The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter

Barack Obama is taking America down a path modeled by Jimmy Carter, and threatens to be as bad a president as his trailblazer. A unlikely guide unwittingly will help make the case.

September 21, 2008

Responding to Neo-Atheism

Neo-atheism has had a very successful publishing run over the past several years, with best-selling books by Christopher Hitchens ("god is not great"), Sam Harris ("Letter to a Christian Nation") and Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion"),

August 19, 2008

Obama, Party Loyalty, and His Own Best Interest

There has been a lot of commentary already on the forum at Saddleback Church, but one Obama answer bears some further fact-checking.

July 24, 2008

Obama on Jerusalem, Properly Phrased

Barack Obama's continuing explanations of his AIPAC speech, in which he said Jerusalem "must remain undivided," raise more questions than they answer. Obama added yet another explanation yesterday in Sderot.

June 25, 2008

Barack Obama's Diplomatic Code Words

Barack Obama apparently has trouble with diplomatic code words.

June 13, 2008

Revisiting Obama's Speech to AIPAC

Barack Obama's June 4 speech to AIPAC received a favorable initial response, but the more one scrutinizes it, the more troubling it becomes.

March 23, 2008

A Principled Peace Process

The morass of the current "peace process" stems from the failure by the administrations in both Jerusalem and Washington to observe the first principle exressed by President Bush and approved by a Congressional Resolution.

February 18, 2008

Clinton, Obama and the Social Security Table

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both have plans to fix Social Security, cloaked in rhetoric and code, but crystal clear upon analysis. It's the oldest Democrat solution in the book.

February 13, 2008

Palestinian Chutzpah

I read about the Palestinian Authority asking the State Department to intervene on the PA's side in lawsuits brought against it by U.S. victims of Palestinian terrorism

September 11, 2007

Why We Are in Iraq

A review of Norman Podhoretz's World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism

September 4, 2007

Walt, Mearsheimer and the Peace Process

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt distorted a central event in the Middle East "peace process" in their earlier work, and have now expanded upon it in a new book.

August 14, 2007

Bare-knuckled bias at the NYT

The New York Times today carried three news stories and an editorial on Karl Rove's decision to leave the White House.

July 29, 2007

The New York Times Reports and Distorts a Presidential Address

On July 24, around noon, President Bush delivered an important speech at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina.

June 26, 2007

Carter in Britain: There He Went Again

Jimmy Carter was in London last week, receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University, which will offer a course later this year entitled "The Middle Ease and the West: From Confrontation to Coexistence."

June 19, 2007

Blaming Bush for Gaza

Statecraft apparently consists of taking content-less nouns (diplomacy, game plan, negotiation, engagement) and surrounding them with high-sounding adjectives (hands-on, intensive, active, serious).

May 1, 2007

What Tenet Knew, When He Knew It, and Whom He Told

In its lead editorial on Sunday, "Still Waiting for Answers," the New York Times expressed the hope that Rep. Henry Waxman will enforce the subpoena of Condoleezza Rice

November 28, 2006

Revisiting (and Reliving) 1938

"It is 1938; Iran is Germany; and it is racing to acquire nuclear weapons." Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly punctuated his speech in Los Angeles earlier this month with that sentence. It was an effective rhetorical device, conveying both a sense of threat and a sense of urgency. But 1938 may be relevant in more ways than as a rhetorical device. Revisiting that year, through Winston Churchill's compelling account in "The Gathering Storm," is an instructive exercise

November 14, 2006

The World According to Jimmy Carter

A review of Jimmy Carter, Palestine:Peace Not Apartheid (Simon & Schuster, November 2006)

March 4, 2006

The Movie Spielberg Didn't Make