Edward Olshaker

Edward Olshaker


  • January 30, 2013

    Hagel and a Nuclear Iran -- Perfect Together

    Sounding indistinguishable from Noam Chomsky or Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former Sen. Chuck Hagel agreed in an Al Jazeera interview that the United States is "the world's bully" and has depicted Israel as a cruel oppressor, yet appears to have little sim...

  • October 22, 2012

    Checkpoint Scandal Would Catch Obama Off-Guard in Third Debate

    The media's failure to provide fair and accurate coverage of President Obama's foreign policy has one unintended benefit for Mitt Romney.  It offers him the opportunity to spring a surprise on Obama during tonight's debate. The most troubling of...

  • October 11, 2012

    The Obama Tapes That Can Bring Romney Victory

    Elections are less likely to be decided by debates than by a handful of images engraved in voters' minds.  The possibility persists that President Obama might win this battle of images -- and thus the election -- by relentlessly depicting Mitt R...

  • September 5, 2012

    Obama's Own War on Women

    Is there really a war on women, and if so, who is waging it?  Perhaps we can begin to learn the answer from a tale of two congressmen: October 26, 2009 - The story breaks that Rep. Alan Grayson called a female adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernank...

  • August 23, 2012

    Will the Romney Campaign Demand Release of the Obama-Khalidi Video?

    Will this be the year we finally see a presidential nominee with the guts to make an issue of his opponent's extremist associations? Actually, it's already happened, but not in the way many of us wished.  President Obama recently accused Mitt Ro...

  • August 6, 2012

    When Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Insulted Palestinian Culture

    Anyone who doubts that the media are intent on defeating Mitt Romney need only compare their coverage of his brief, innocuous comments about Israeli and Palestinian cultural differences with Hillary Clinton's remarks on the same subject when she ran ...

  • June 4, 2012

    Washington Post Tougher on Romney than Hezb'allah Killer of 241 Marines

    The Washington Post recently used the word "troubling" in a headline describing Mitt Romney's behavior as a teenager, and insisted in a subsequent column that his conduct in 1965 plays a vital role in providing clues to his current character. Remarka...

  • May 2, 2012

    The Campaign Ads That Will Defeat Obama

    Despite the life-and-death issues at stake, the Obama campaign has begun a re-election effort based largely on Rule 5 of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule..." The reason is s...

  • December 28, 2011

    Bachmann vs. the 'Fact-Checkers': Did Iran Threaten Nuclear Attack on U.S.?

    In recent weeks, Rep. Michele Bachmann has repeatedly been "corrected" for claiming that Iran has threatened to use nuclear weapons against the United States and Israel.    Her claim -- especially the part about the U.S. as a target -- firs...

  • June 4, 2011

    Obama's Mounting Media Manipulation

    Continuing a pattern of punishing unsupportive media that began during the 2008 campaign, the Obama Administration recently banned a Boston Herald reporter from the media pool covering a presidential visit as apparent retaliation for running an op-ed...

  • May 18, 2011

    The terror plot the FBI refuses to investigate

    The FBI investigated the attack on Nancy Kerrigan's leg, yet refuses to look into "over-hyped" plot to bomb a synagogue and Empire State Building.In a disturbing development the mainstream media has virtually ignored, Fox New reports: The...

  • October 25, 2010

    Comparing Jews to Nazis Meets NPR's 'Editorial Standards and Practices'

    NPR's mindset has not changed since they blacklisted terrorism expert Steven Emerson in response to a complaint from a Hamas supporter...whom they invited to be a commentator. "[Juan Williams'] remarks were inconsistent with our editorial standa...

  • June 24, 2010

    Hezb'allah Flotilla Founder to Shalit: Stop Occupying Gaza!

    For anyone who's ever wondered why demonstrators are carrying signs demanding "End Israeli Occupation of Gaza" five years after the occupation ended, the sponsor of the Lebanese women's flotilla preparing to challenge the Gaza blockade migh...

  • June 8, 2010

    Does Abbas' Support for Black Genocide Offend Obama?

    Unlike Prime Minister Netanyahu, who reportedly caused President Obama to become "livid" over the timing of an apartment-building announcement, Palestinian President Abbas comes to the White House this week knowing there is nothing he could...

  • June 6, 2010

    If D-Day had been reported by today's MSM

    On the solemn day commemorating the sacrifices of US troops and their allies, it is difficult not to feel that much of what they gained at immeasurable cost is being thrown away, and that costly lessons learned at that time have been f...

  • March 23, 2010

    Will Obama show Israel the same 'evenhandedness' that he demonstrates to Iran?

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  • March 22, 2010

    Obama, Israel, and Iran

    Last Saturday, while the nation's attention was focused on health care, President Obama sent New Year greetings to Iran that contained a promise our ally Israel would envy.Although he condemned the Iranian regime's belligerence toward the intern...

  • November 11, 2009

    Remembering Our POWs Who Never Returned

    Thirty-six Veterans Days have passed since the official release of our Vietnam prisoners of war, yet to this day we are left with clashing verdicts on the crucial issue of whether numerous prisoners were knowingly left behind. An official communicati...

  • October 14, 2009

    Liberals' Violence Warning Comes a Year Late

    New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently attracted major attention when he dramatically warned, as Rep. Nancy Pelosi had done earlier, that malicious words can lead to life-threatening violence. Yet both were silent about the wave of politic...

  • September 21, 2009

    How Can Obama Appear on Letterman after Boycotting Imus?

    Two years ago, after radio-show host Don Imus called the young ladies on the Rutgers basketball team "ho's," presidential candidate Barack Obama announced he would not appear again on Imus' show. But he didn't stop there. Shortly after Imus...

  • September 11, 2009

    Terror-Sponsor China Awarded 9-11 Memorial Tower Contract

    When a contract to produce blast-resistant glass for the 9-11 memorial tower at Ground Zero was awarded to a Chinese manufacturer earlier this year, the Harrisburg Patriot-News editorial board expressed outrage at what they described as a snub to Ame...

  • May 16, 2009

    Ahmadinejad Can Speak on a US Campus, But Netanyahu Cannot

    Imagine it's 1940, and picture Adolf Hitler speaking at a US university, receiving a polite reception, while Winston Churchill is barred from speaking because his safety cannot be guaranteed.It's unthinkable, yet the very same pro-fascist dynamic is ...

  • May 14, 2009

    Will Obama's Justice Department Prosecute Abbas for Murder?

    Now that President Obama has opened the door to prosecuting Bush administration officials for legal opinions allowing waterboarding of al Qaeda leaders, it would be monumentally ironic and unjust if the door were not also open to prosecuting Palestin...

  • January 20, 2009

    David Duke and Bill Moyers (continued)

    David Duke apparently has found a soul brother in Bill Moyers. Duke has posted the AT article I wrote challenging readers to guess who said which quote, congratulating Moyers for finally seeing the light. Incidnetally, Duke reproduced the article in ...

  • January 15, 2009

    Who said it? Bill Moyers or David Duke?

    "The irony of it all is the Jews who believe they are ‘chosen'...better than anyone else, and entitled by God to kill and steal homes and land...are shooting themselves in the foot. Madoff, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, all Jewish America...

  • January 11, 2009

    Ban Ki-moon's bigotry

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon portrays Israel and the terrorists who seek its destruction as morally equivalent-but the news gets even worse.The Associated Press reported on Dec. 29 that Ban "again condemned Israel's exc...

  • December 16, 2008

    Chopra's Delusions

    Unlike those who consider Deepak Chopra a New Age charlatan, I admire the work that brought him acclaim and success. This only makes his unintentionally callous comments about India's own 9/11 -- and his earlier libel against Israel -- all the more d...

  • April 17, 2008

    As America Remembers Va. Tech Victims, Carter Honors a School-massacre Perpetrator

    In his deranged message to the world, Cho Seung-Hui, the murderer of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech, credited Columbine High School killers "Eric and Dylan" as his inspiration. But, to give credit where it truly is due, it was ...