Month: July 2012

David Brooks’ latest piece is quite offensive. It’s also grossly inaccurate. Let’s start with his opening paragraph: Let’s say you are president in a time of a sustained economic slowdown. You initiated a...

Michele Bachmann aspires to be her own generation’s Joe McCarthy. But we don’t need to do six degrees of separation to prove that she’s insane. I wonder when her constituents will notice.

. As a child growing up in The Netherlands, I saw the poverty and the destruction after the German occupation 1940-45. During the war, my parents listened to the BBC which was an inspiration of hope, longing for freedom. The...

. The Obama Administration has been good to Israel. Unabated military assistance in supplying arms, joint intelligence operations and keeping the peace process walled up as the Israeli settlements blossom in Judea and Samaria....

When I think Las Vegas, I think The Mob. Sheldon Adelson is just the latest in a long line of crooks who have bought off politicians to avoid prosecution. Never underestimate these folks. However, what has changed is that when...