Eileen F. Toplansky

Eileen F. Toplansky


  • Raoul Wallenberg -- A Beacon for All Time

    December 2, 2024

    Raoul Wallenberg -- A Beacon for All Time

    Vile Jew hatred has reared its ugly head in Montreal which has endured the most anti-Semitic hate crimes of any city in North America.  Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel, anti-Semitic incidents in Canada have increased by an ast...

  • Iron Dome Jew vs. Beeper Jew

    October 12, 2024

    Iron Dome Jew vs. Beeper Jew

    In a searing short video, Tom Trento of the United West highlights the bloodthirsty, perverted, and bestial actions of Hamas which led to the October 7, 2023 Holocaust in Israel. In the video, Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone speaks of “the Iron Dome Jew...

  • Educating about Jihadists

    September 25, 2024

    Educating about Jihadists

    With Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) overshadowing an instructor’s life, it is a challenge to educate.  Nonetheless, sometimes there is a glimmer of hope. One of the assigned readings where I t...

  • Israel Against the World

    September 19, 2024

    Israel Against the World

    On July 2014 the late Charles Krauthammer penned an article titled “Moral Clarity in Gaza.” He noted that “Hamas has only one grievance: Israel’s very existence.” “Some geopolitical conflicts are morally compl...

  • Trump, Harris, and Communism

    September 6, 2024

    Trump, Harris, and Communism

    Kamala Harris has “vowed to lower prices at the grocery store with price controls and open up the increasingly out-of-reach housing market with tax subsidies for homebuyers.” Harris asserts that she “will work to pass the first-ever...

  • Democrats Will Weep Momentarily For Hostages, But They Hate Israel

    August 28, 2024

    Democrats Will Weep Momentarily For Hostages, But They Hate Israel

    Although attendees at the Democrat convention responded with appropriate empathy when they heard a speech from the parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old man who was at the October 7th Nova festival in Israel, the f...

  • Sensitivity Training from the Left

    August 16, 2024

    Sensitivity Training from the Left

    Throughout the year, college instructors are required to have mandatory faculty training. This month it is “Disability Cultural Responsiveness for Faculty: Improving Communication and Understanding.” It was led by Sara Sanders Gardner, th...

  • The Erasure of Women in Sports

    August 7, 2024

    The Erasure of Women in Sports

    Originally, the 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendments permitted “separate but comparable toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.” Title IX was able to provide equal opportunities for women in education wit...

  • No Different than the Democrats: A Review of <em>The Empire of Eunuchs</em>

    June 19, 2024

    No Different than the Democrats: A Review of The Empire of Eunuchs

    Richard Moss, M.D., Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, pulls no punches in his latest book titled The Empire of Eunuchs: How the Republican Party Betrayed America as he accuses the Republican Party as being “no different than the very same Democrat P...

  • Anti-Israel Invective Infiltrates the World of Orthotics and Prosthetics

    June 7, 2024

    Anti-Israel Invective Infiltrates the World of Orthotics and Prosthetics

    How is it that people allegedly dedicated to the well-being of others have a blind eye when it comes to the suffering of certain groups of people?  Safa Doost, a certified orthotist (CO), is a health care professional who received certification ...

  • Israel Will Triumph

    June 2, 2024

    Israel Will Triumph

    Jewish history is like a tapestry. You tug at a thread from a thousand years ago and a similar thread will be felt hundreds of years later. What happened on October 7, 2023 in Israel is merely another point in the long history of the rabid ha...

  • Ongoing Jihadist Infiltration into America

    May 6, 2024

    Ongoing Jihadist Infiltration into America

    Alleged pundits scratch their heads in puzzlement and ask: how did all these pro-Hamas outbursts suddenly appear on American universities? They are, in fact, not some spontaneous eruption, but clearly the product of an ongoing jihadist campaign to...

  • Obama’s Continuing War on Suburbia, Courtesy of Joe Biden

    April 8, 2024

    Obama’s Continuing War on Suburbia, Courtesy of Joe Biden

    Like the prophets of old, Stanley Kurtz warned of the evil mongers in America, but sadly, no one seemed to heed his dire warning.  In his 2012 book titled Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, Kurtz pai...

  • State of American Health Care

    March 20, 2024

    State of American Health Care

    Once the envy of the world, American medical care continues to be infected with Leftist woke ideology with abysmal and terrifying outcomes. Under the term “health equity” the only parameter that matters appears to be a person’s m...

  • January 19, 2024

    Enabling Hatred of the Jewish People

    In Viktor Frankl’s classic Man’s Search for Meaning he writes that “there are only two races – the decent and the indecent.”  No more proof is needed when one considers the events of October 7 and the ongoi...

  • November 24, 2023

    Negotiating for Hostages

    Prisoner exchange is not a new event in Jewish history.  From the 1940s on, Israel exchanged Palestinian prisoners and POWs from Arab armies in exchange for Israeli soldiers and civilians taken captive during the war. In the ancient worl...

  • October 27, 2023

    Biden and Islamophobia

    I was hoping against hope that Joe Biden would totally and irrevocably expose the evil of radical Islam in speaking of the dastardly Hamas attacks. But once he asserted that “we must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia...

  • October 15, 2023

    Where is the Concern for Jewish Blood?

    As the world learns of the savagery being unleashed in Israel, those who have studied Jewish history sadly know that this is not a novel occurrence for the Jewish people. In late 1914, S. Ansky, the influential Jewish-Russian journalist, playwrigh...

  • October 2, 2023

    Never Forget the Jan. 6 Defendants

    Of all the evil that Biden has perpetrated, none is so vile as the imprisonment of Americans known as the J6 defendants.  Daily, they suffer cruel and unusual punishment; they are incarcerated in solitary confinement, their medical needs ar...

  • September 29, 2023

    The Death of the Library

    As the Marxists ram their equity ideas into all institutions, libraries are a critical target.  Consequently, "progressives and leftists must put public libraries at the top of [their] organizing agendas."  To that end, ...

  • August 3, 2023

    Communist Tactics and Martin Amis’s Blindness

    I recently read Martin Amis’ Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) which lays bare the enormity of the Stalinist legacy where more than 20 million people were murdered. It is deeply puzzling to read an author who documents the ...

  • July 3, 2023

    Colleges Weigh In on Supreme Court Decision

    Lee Bollinger “laments the ruling by America’s Supreme Court against affirmative action.  Universities need to pursue diversity by other means, says Columbia’s president.” As I complete 50 years of university leaders...

  • June 30, 2023

    London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan and Woke Ideology

    Our cousins across the pond apparently have jumped on the woke bandwagon and the Muslim Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is leading the charge. In fact, Sadiq Khan's staff have been banned from calling people 'men and women' as part of a n...

  • June 27, 2023

    Obama Rings the Reparations Bell

    As Black Lives Matters and their allies rev up the call for reparations, it is time to revisit what Milton R. Konvitz wrote in 1976 for the celebration of the Bicentennial of American Independence[1]: In the late 1960s, when militant blacks stag...

  • June 11, 2023

    President Trump and the tarts

    Beginning with the chapter "Who Stole the Tarts?," in Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll turns a nursery rhyme accusation into a headlong satire of law and society.  The court is presided over by the demented Queen and her bumblin...

  • June 7, 2023

    Is Genocide Too Powerful a Word?

    Genocide is a potent word.  It refers to the decimation of an entire group.  It results in destruction on a massive scale.  It defies the imagination even though we have often witnessed it in the 20th century. To most...

  • May 13, 2023

    From The American Gulag Chronicles

    In the mid-1970s I and others worldwide were active in a letter writing campaign to Soviet Jewish refuseniks. Anatoly Sharansky is probably the most well-known of these dissidents.  While most of the letters were heavily censored, some did get t...

  • April 23, 2023

    Communism Is Liberty's Mortal Enemy

    In a December 26, 1955 article in Time magazine, George Meany of the AFL-CIO warned Americans that [t]oo many in the free world fail to see the real nature of Communism as the mortal foe of everything that we hold dear, of every moral and spirit...

  • February 26, 2023

    No equality under equity

    Susan Rice, of Benghazi shame, has allegedly remained under the media radar for the past two years.  But Biden, via executive order, has now given Rice the power to enact a "racial equity" makeover of the federal government. ...

  • February 23, 2023

    Taking Back America

    As I travel, I constantly see tattered American flags blowing in the wind.  They are a metaphor for the state of the Union. It is emblematic of how our country is being hollowed out. We have a Manchurian leader who is gutting us of our rights....

  • January 12, 2023

    A Call from Alexander Hamilton

    In light of the dismaying set of events that has put our country at great risk, it is intriguing to read the words of Alexander Hamilton to George Clinton dated February 13, 1778.  Written from Valley Forge immediately after his arrival at headq...

  • January 5, 2023

    Chinese Communist Party Aggression against America

    Joe Biden's decision to allow a Chinese company "to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota" portends dire consequences for America. According to Gordon Chang, China will ...

  • January 3, 2023

    Stealth Jihad is Alive and Well

    Thirteen years ago, the Center for Security Policy Press published Shariah: The Threat to America, Report of Team BII.  They pointed out that “[t]he most important entity promoting Islamic supremacism, shariah, and the caliphate... is the ...

  • January 2, 2023

    The Tyranny in America

    It never ceases to amaze me when I hear media talking heads plaintively ask, "Why won't Biden or Harris visit the border?"  They ask the question genuinely believing that if either the President or the Vice President saw the loomin...

  • November 17, 2022

    The Left Cashes In On The Real Red Wave

    Indeed, there was a red wave but not the one conservatives had hoped for. It was, however, the continuation of the leftists’, Marxists’, and communists’ eternal obsession to destroy America and obliterate her values—and Ayn Ra...

  • November 8, 2022

    The Lost American Generation

    James Stevens Curl has recently written how he has "become increasingly concerned with creeping dumbing-down, not least in the field of education, where it became obvious to [him] many years ago that standards were dropping through the floo...

  • August 31, 2022

    Yes, Some Universities Are Still Requiring the COVID Shot

    Rutgers University is one of many schools of higher education that will require masking and COVID vaccination for the coming school year.  Antonio M. Calcado, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Rutgers, has written that ...

  • August 5, 2022

    Transgender Surgery or Female Genital Mutilation – Are They Different?

    In 2012, The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution urging countries to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), calling it an “irreparable and irreversible abuse.” The resolution was considered a major step forwa...

  • August 2, 2022

    The Corruption of the World Health Organization (WHO)

    Abir Ballan, author of the June 2022 piece titled “The WHO Review and Why it Matters to You? has documented the corruption by WHO/global leaders and governments concerning Covid treatment. In essence, Ballan’s findings are a call to a...

  • July 8, 2022

    Determining Objective Information versus Indoctrination

    Critical thinking is paramount in determining the validity of documents.  But how does one identify indoctrination when it is couched in alleged compassion for people?  What is the veracity test?  What questions need to ...

  • July 6, 2022

    How 'Racial Literacy' Erodes Education

    As the country plunges deeper into Wokeland, the institutions of alleged higher learning continue to support and promulgate the ideology of the Left. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) offers an online book titled “Racial Lit...

  • June 29, 2022

    The Abortion Conundrum

    Returning the abortion question to the states is a constitutional victory.  It is the beginning of restoring the separation of powers that is vital to the country. Even the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted that the manner in which Roe...

  • June 4, 2022

    The Left Despises People of Color

    Under the guise of caring and concern, the Left continues its assault on Black people, aka People of Color. First, it began with substandard education for Black children and the control of the school systems by the teachers’ unions, who shil...

  • March 8, 2022

    The COVID Vaccine is a Civil Rights Issue

    The insistence on being forced to receive the COVID "vaccine" is a civil rights issue.  Let me unwrap my assertion.  Though receipt of the so-called vaccination is not a law, but only a mandate, there are those who treat it ...

  • February 28, 2022

    Islamic Infiltration and the Death of Richard Higgins

    America has lost too many good men lately.  Rush Limbaugh, Angelo Codevilla, and Colin Flaherty come to mind, and now, sadly, another good man's voice has been silenced.  In his 2020 book titled The Memo, Rich Higgins was one of...

  • February 20, 2022

    Religious Intolerance and COVID Vax Mandates

    In our current age of woke domination and historical ignorance, the words of Joseph Noyes speak to us through the centuries. By the "middle of the 18th century, Yale College was beginning to show the effects of the religious toleration that w...

  • January 15, 2022

    Transgenderism Destroys the Family

    In March of 1970, Anne Bernays penned a piece titled "What Are You Supposed to Do if You Like Children?"[1]  Her target was the Women's Liberation Movement that was ushering in ideas that "men are sexual vampires, [and] m...

  • January 3, 2022

    Dumbing Down Minority Students

    For years now, the educational establishment and the Democrat Party have colluded to damage pride of accomplishment within the black community.  Now that the Democrat Party is essentially a Marxist outlet, the drive for weakening American c...

  • December 26, 2021

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Result in Anti-Semitism

    G. Tod Slone has written that "as a political ideology, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has proven time and again to be against freedom, reason, and truth.  Proponents of the ideology tend to be hypocrites and anti-white racists [.]...

  • November 11, 2021

    AMA Becomes a Shill of the Left

    By now the left-wing agenda in schools is increasingly more evident. Incomprehensible writing of the lowest level is now the norm but with an additional twist -- students in the nursing field now spout such ideas as demonstrated in the following: ...

  • September 6, 2021

    Thank you, President Biden

    Joe Biden may have aged, but there is a consistency about him that remains true to form.  For this, we must thank him. Anything that would assert American exceptional ideals and maintain American supremacy in the world is an anathema to ...

  • August 25, 2021

    A Virus More Potent than COVID

    Shame and blame are animating features of the Critical Race movement.  The latest example of Critical Race Theory can be found in the article from Inside Higher Ed and is titled "Camera's On: Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19....

  • July 19, 2021

    Bringing America to its Knees Courtesy of the Biden Administration

    President Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has extended an invitation to two different United Nations Special Rapporteurs.  One deals with contemporary forms of racism while the other is concerned with minority issues. Binken also w...

  • July 6, 2021

    Wokeness in Art and Music

    Daily the Marxists/Leftists/Communists among us infiltrate every aspect of our society.  Consequently,  "the individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows" yet the Left continues to work towards an alleged utopia even though...

  • June 2, 2021

    Progressive Jews Delude Themselves

    To my Jewish brethren who in their heart of hearts think they are being virtuous, you must understand that the Black Lives Matter movement that so many of you marched for, sent money to, and still support with admiration has at its core the deep desi...

  • April 23, 2021

    Comedy Is a Dictatorship's First Victim

    Humor has always been one of the first targets of a dictatorship.  It is no surprise that in America, comedians can no longer function because of rampant political correctness.  Thus,  according to Mel Brooks, "we have become stup...

  • March 5, 2021

    The Evolution of Elitism

    In 1979, John H. Bunzel penned a piece in Newsweek titled "The Badge of  'Elitism.'"  Bunzel was president of a state university in California from 1970 to 1978.  Here's what he had to say  Thus I am an ...

  • February 25, 2021

    When Will American Jews Wake Up?

    The Red-Green Alliance of radical leftists and Islamic jihadists have the same goal of destroying America.  As such, it has been a continuing conundrum why liberal Jews support such groups' philosophies. The question of why Jews vote agai...

  • February 21, 2021

    With Libraries like These, Who Needs to Burn Books?

    Why burn books when libraries are doing the censor's work?  On January 25, 2021, the American Library Association (ALA) Council reviewed the role of libraries in condemning white supremacy and fascism. Lindsay Cronk, who helped devel...

  • February 8, 2021

    When American Lawyers Are Taught to Hate America

    It is no longer a surprise why so many American students have come to despise their own country.  The latest example of deliberate misinformation comes from the New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF).  Claiming that "informe...

  • February 2, 2021

    Coca Cola Abandons American Ideas

    Now that we have entered the new world of diversity, inclusion and equity, the acronym DIE aptly applies.  While schools have long been involved in these activities, businesses have now voluntarily adopted or been forced to accept this left-wing...

  • January 28, 2021

    How and Why Joe Biden Opposes Patriotic Education

    Of all the executive orders that newly elected Joe Biden swiftly enacted,  nothing is more indicative of his anti-American animus and radical left-wing influence than his revoking Trump's "1776 Commission" to promote "pat...

  • January 25, 2021

    Watching as the USA Falls Prey to the Allure of Communism

    Repeatedly, one needs to ask: how is it possible that such a vile and discredited system as communism continues to gain traction among so many people? Like others before me, I am astonished at the prescience of W. Cleon Skousen, author of The Nake...

  • January 23, 2021

    America Is (Not So) Slowly Turning Communist Red

    Perhaps the most contemptible action of the Democrats, and there have been so many, is the desire to completely erase Trump and, by extension, his MAGA movement.  So now "more than 250 authors, editors, agents, professors and others in t...

  • January 13, 2021

    Those Who Lived Under Communism Speak Out

    In 1972, one of the most celebrated ballet teams Valery Panov and his wife Galina Ragozina, sought to leave Leningrad for Israel. After his dismissal from the Kirov Ballet, Panov was jailed for ten days, placed under surveillance and repeatedly r...

  • December 28, 2020

    Transgenderism and the Equality Act

    In June 2012 George Soros' the Center for American Progress (CAP) published an 84-page document whose introduction asserts that "[e]very day gay and transgender employees face alarmingly high rates of discrimination in the workplace. CA...

  • December 21, 2020

    How the left even radicalized even the restaurant business

    By June 2020, it was clear that the restaurant industry had already lost $120 billion as a result of lockdowns.  By the year's end, the pandemic could cost the sector $240 billion. If a restaurant can even manage to hobble ...

  • November 22, 2020

    In times of disgrace, a refreshing sendoff from a noble man

    In this day and age of identity politics, crass kowtowing to the lowest denominator of behavior, it is exhilarating — in fact, downright refreshing — to read the words of a gentleman who epitomizes what it means to strive for excellence. ...

  • November 17, 2020

    Jihadists Are Rooting for a Biden Presidency

    It should be of grave concern that America's avowed enemies are cheering on the possibility of a Biden presidency.  Thus, "Iraq's pro-Tehran factions have welcomed Joe Biden's election as US president[.]"  Th...

  • November 15, 2020

    Is Rashida Tlaib an Agent of Jihad?

    Much has been written about the radical leftist policies that will be enacted should Biden become President. They would include but not be limited to defunding police departments nationwide; abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agen...

  • October 26, 2020

    What Latin America's Communist Travails Say about the USA's Future

    During his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy made it abundantly clear that he was concerned that the countries to the south of the United States not fall prey to communism.  He wrote: To our sister republics south of ou...

  • October 18, 2020

    Cultural Amnesia and American Survival

    Clive James's 2007 book titled Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts is a collection of artists and thinkers.  They are largely concerned with responses to "threats against freedom, mostly in the 20th centu...

  • October 15, 2020

    Moses, Trump, and Limbaugh

    Every time I hear Rush Limbaugh's voice at noon on his Excellence in Broadcasting radio program, I give thanks that he has summoned the courage to fight another day.  I can only imagine the physical and mental challenges he fa...

  • August 1, 2020

    A South Africa update and it's not pretty

      In 2018, Tucker Carlson highlighted the expropriation of land from White farmers in South Africa. He stated "[a]s land seizures based on skin color shows, South Africa is once again becoming a place where an entire group of people is t...

  • July 31, 2020

    The Slow and Ugly Implosion of South Africa Continues

    In 2018, Tucker Carlson highlighted the expropriation of land from white farmers in South Africa.  He stated, "As land seizures based on skin color shows, South Africa is once again becoming a place where an entire group of people is t...

  • July 26, 2020

    Were Christians Always So Left-Wing?

    Those observing the cultural landscape in America attempt to understand why Jews vote for leftwing policies that run counter to their own safety and existence.  But many Catholic institutions are also active in disseminating radical left-wi...

  • July 21, 2020

    Mandated Diversity Training

    Most schools and businesses mandate that their employees take a "Diversity: Inclusion in the Modern Workplace" (EDU) online training course.  Under the umbrella of compassion for all, it is a well-crafted collection of leftwing radical...

  • July 17, 2020

    Sheer Lunacy Rules the Day

    In a world that appears to be tottering off its axis with sheer lunacy ruling the day, here is a small sampling of the dangerous ideas gaining traction and the cowardice displayed by so many. In Great Britain, where grooming gang crimes exist, ...

  • July 15, 2020

    An American's Odyssey in Soviet Russia: Will We Heed His Warning?

    After I wrote the article titled "The Soviet Plan for 'Ideological Subversion' Describes Our Current Turmoil," Charles Cole, author of In Russian Wonderland: An American's Odyssey in Soviet Russia, contacted me.  His m...

  • July 12, 2020

    Jews against Themselves

    Jews are now commemorating what is known as the Three Weeks.  It is when Jews express grief for the destruction of the Holy Temple in ancient Israel.  The Temple was breached by the Romans in 69 C.E.  The mourning period...

  • July 2, 2020

    Caution: Anything You Say Will Be Racist Somehow

    I first learned of John Leo in 1999 when he penned the clever and prescient piece titled "A Waspish, Niggardly Slur," wherein he exposed the dangerous trend in language manipulation that is now so wildly prevalent.  It was an equa...

  • June 26, 2020

    Amalek: Israel's Ancient Enemy Lives among Us

    In the annals of Jewish history, "[t]he Amalekites, descendants of Amalek, were an ancient biblical nation living near the land of Canaan. They were the first nation to attack the Jewish people after the Exodus from Egypt, an...

  • June 24, 2020

    Black Lives Matter Does Not Care about Black Youth

    As a publicly avowed Marxist organization, Black Lives Matter (BLM) seeks to destroy the nuclear family.  Its adherents aim to: ... disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extende...

  • June 22, 2020

    The Soviet Plan for ‘Ideological Subversion’ Describes Our Current Turmoil

    A good friend of mine who fled the Soviet Union many years ago recently sent me a most chilling interview on You Tube.  Under ten minutes long, it needs to be seen by every American who wonders why the country is unraveling before our very eyes....

  • June 21, 2020

    On capitalizing 'Black' but not 'white'

    As we descend farther into more racial balkanization, it is noteworthy to point out that in 2015, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) ushered in a discussion about how to capitalize the words "white" and "black" when referring to...

  • June 16, 2020

    Should Jews Endorse Black Lives Matter?

    We are living in a maelstrom of hatred, ignorance, and virtue-signaling that is breathtaking to observe.  Jewish organizations and synagogues are marching in support of Black Lives Matter.  White people are prostrating themselves ...

  • June 13, 2020

    To Those in Blue

    As the country sees the spectacle of anti-cop rants and total disrespect for the badge, I am reminded of the 1925 piece by William Faulkner titled "The Cop."  It is way past due to hearken back to the time when, as a young lad, he...

  • June 10, 2020

    What about Black Christian Lives?

    Where are the marches and the outrage regarding the deliberate and quite systematic murder by jihadist Muslims of Black Christians in Nigeria and other African countries? At Genocide Watch (graphic pictures), one learns that Nigeria is "a kil...

  • June 8, 2020

    De-Policing: The Handmaiden of Socialism

    Even though socialism is "arguably the most discredited idea in history," as Dinesh D'Souza writes in his United States of Socialism, far too many are drawn to it like a moth to fire.  Consider that the left and the Democrat P...

  • June 3, 2020

    The Savages Among Us

    The savagery, rage and evil of the murderers, looters and haters of America these past few days should clarify to any sentient individual that the left and its allies will do anything to completely dismantle this country.  Seeing the picture of ...

  • May 23, 2020

    If Only 1199 SEIU Union Members Really Knew

    George Gresham, president of the New York-based 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a position he has held since 2007, recently penned a piece titled "Donald Trump is Destroying Our Planet." According to Gresham, Trump has "destr...

  • May 16, 2020

    The Coronavirus Fifth Column

    As left-wing Democrat-controlled states continue to keep people in lockdown, it is becoming apparent that they are using the pandemic as a means to gain ultimate control of people's lives. In fact, leftists the world over are exploiting t...

  • May 11, 2020

    Gavin Newsom for President?

    If, as Rush Limbaugh has opined, there is no way the Democrat Party will hoist Joe Biden over the finish line, then what do the Democrats have up their sleeve to stay in power?  After all, "[t]he Democrats have no enthusiasm. ...

  • May 9, 2020

    Latinx -- The Latest Leftist Educational Maneuver

    Rutgers University founded in 1766 is one of only nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution.  The alumni boast many who were predominant in the revolutionary founding. Inclusion and access began in 1867 when Kusakabe Taro...

  • May 7, 2020

    Big Tech is Strangling Us

    How ironic that the 1984 iconic advertisement that Apple used to introduce the Macintosh computer "played on imagery from George Orwell's 1984 novella [sic] presenting Apple as rebels fighting a technocratic elite. ...

  • April 21, 2020

    No Wonder the Kids are Historically Illiterate

    Generally, when a buyer is defrauded of services, the demand for the goods diminishes. As more emerges of what colleges and universities across this country are not doing, the demand will dry up unless there are drastic changes. The American Counc...

  • March 29, 2020

    Another Pandemic Known as Social Justice

    The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has produced a report titled "Social Justice Education in America."  Written by David Randall, it defines, describes, and delineates many of the destructive and deceptive ideas behind the...

  • March 10, 2020

    Can New Jersey Democrats Bulldoze President Trump?

    How quaint that leftists aka Democrats sound the alarm on voting rights for illegals  but display nothing but dictatorial instincts when they want to squash the rights of conservative voters. New Jersey Democrats are reviving an eff...

  • February 9, 2020

    Pelosi and Rumpelstiltskin

    Watching Nancy Pelosi and her gang of insolent quislings, it was hard not to think of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin."  Power, greed, deal-making, sacrifice of children, and petulant rage are a few of the them...

  • December 30, 2019

    Education and Business: An Incestuous Relationship

    Why in Sam Hill would a sentient parent send his child to any school of higher learning in America today when "colleges across the country are altering admissions requirements and curricul[a]" in order to "improve diversity ratios on c...

  • November 8, 2019

    The Democrats and CAIR

    In 2018, Democratic lawmakers and a few Republicans openly supported the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), congratulating the organization on its 24th year of operation.  Furthermore, sixteen likely Democrat presidential candidates a...

  • November 5, 2019

    Suffer the Children

    In 2001, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple wrote Life at the Bottom.  He had "little hesitation in saying that the mental, cultural, emotional and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass [was] the greatest of any large group o...

  • October 31, 2019

    The Pronoun Police Are Out to Destroy Children

    In the olden days, students would learn that avoiding shifts in person is critical in producing clear and cogent writing. Not anymore. Instead, October 16, 2019 marked International Pronouns Day, because "asking someone their [sic] lived p...

  • October 29, 2019

    Death by Islamophobia

    James Thomson in his "Rule Britannica" poem of the mid-1700s wrote: Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame: All their attempts to bend thee down, Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown. Rule, Brit...

  • August 12, 2019

    Why Are You Relinquishing Your Birthright to the Democrats?

    This is for Taylik, Dewayne, Kanesha, Latoya, and any other African-American Millennials who do not fully comprehend that the Democrats have never stopped attempting to strip African-Americans of their birthrights. The Democratic Party knows only ...

  • August 10, 2019

    Education Failing Young Americans...Yet Again

    It is a dismal picture.  In his 1993 book Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas, Thomas Sowell lamented that "when nearly one-third of American 17-year-olds do not know that Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancip...

  • August 1, 2019

    Thank You, Representative Ilhan Omar

    As a congressional representative, Ilhan Omar has masterfully manipulated American freedom in order to make anti-Semitism a more accepted idea.  She has admirably done the work of the Muslim Brotherhood in normalizing anti-Semitism in the l...

  • July 23, 2019

    Let's Talk about Real Discrimination

    The epithet "racism" is bandied about so much these days that most people using the term have no concept about what it really entails.  The R-word as used by the Left and its jihadist accomplices is meant to silence anyone who dis...

  • July 16, 2019

    Jihadist Evil Unites with Leftist Evil

    The Left has historically despised Jews, Judaism, Zionism, and Israel.  So it is quite ironic that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez employs the language of the Holocaust in discussing open borders where illegals are coming in by the thousands. Not only ...

  • July 15, 2019

    Any Organization that Denies Anti-Semitism Loses Credibility

    American students, many of whom display a shocking degree of ignorance about the Holocaust, will not find much trustworthy and objective information about anti-Semitism from touted academic databases such as the CQ Researcher.  The alleged ...

  • June 19, 2019

    Bacha Bazi and the Left's Promotion of Gender Fluidity

    The Left's love affair with Islam has long been exposed.  The Red-Green Alliance is usually seen in geopolitical terms, with each side vying to gain ultimate power.  But forgive me if I might become confused with the hideous p...

  • June 16, 2019

    Why liberal Jews are really not informed

    Is it any wonder that most American Jews who do not read any conservative news outlets are completely clueless about the perfidy of the Democrat Party and its leftist partners? At the Jewish Week, one learns that "Ilhan Omar is Joining [the] New...

  • June 13, 2019

    Hiding behind 'Islamophobia'

    Jihadists are masters at putting people on the defensive, and the term "Islamophobia" is a potent weapon constantly used by them.  Essentially, it shuts down any comment about Islam that is not favorable.  Initially, it ...

  • June 5, 2019

    Jihad's Infiltration of the Movies

    Imagine my shock as I sat down in a local movie theater to spend a restful Sunday afternoon, when, during the 15 minutes of coming attractions, the audience was subjected to one of the latest "Secret Life of Muslims" shorts titled, "Wh...

  • May 23, 2019

    What Are the Children Learning?

    Because of the manipulative leftist ideology rampant in schools, black children are not permitted any pride in their own achievements. Instead they are pumped full of an inordinate opinion of themselves merely because of the color of their skin....

  • March 16, 2019

    The Moral Odyssey of an American Doctor

    Call it providential intervention or just the wisdom of a Chinese fortune cookie, but whatever the impetus, Dr. Richard Moss embarked on a journey to the Third World that he elucidates in his masterful book titled A Surgeon's Odyssey -- a book th...

  • March 11, 2019

    Will Ilhan Omar Finally Wake Up the Jewish People?

    So many of us have tried to warn our liberal Jewish friends and family of the real dangers of anti-Semitism that began in earnest with the election of Barack Hussein Obama.  We were met with derision, scorn, and outright antipathy. ...

  • February 19, 2019

    Exposing Socialism

    Sixty-two years ago, author and ex-communist Howard Fast wrote that he had "only one important task in front of [him] to define this thing, to explain it, to picture this unholy god in his own frightful nakedness; so that if there is another gen...

  • February 5, 2019

    Democrats Are the Party of Destruction

    The first image that came to mind after viewing the 2019 expression of exultant joy by New York Democrat representatives when Governor Cuomo called for a constitutional amendment to shore up abortion for New Yorkers was the 1939 jubilation ...

  • January 23, 2019

    Teddy Roosevelt Schools Nancy Pelosi on Being American

    In April 1894, Theodore Roosevelt, who later became the 26th president of the United States, cogently and with amazing prescience wrote about true patriotism and loyalty to America.  To read his words is to understand what is happening...

  • January 20, 2019

    Jew-Hatred in the Democratic Party

    It is really time for the liberal American Jewish Democrat to acknowledge that blatant anti-Semitism has infected the Democratic Party. Nancy Pelosi has appointed Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Relations Committee.  Omar is vi...

  • January 7, 2019

    Allah over America

    The smirk by Chuck Schumer spoke volumes, and the full-blown identity politicians showing their true colors remind one of Abraham Lincoln's potent lines when on March 4, 1865 he penned the following: While the inaugural address was...

  • December 30, 2018

    George Washington's Prescient Words

    As the man who was "first in the hearts of his countrymen," George Washington wrote guiding principles for the newly established country in his Farewell Address of 1796.  He stressed: ... that the 'national Union' for...

  • December 10, 2018

    White Privilege and Illegal Immigration

    White privilege is a crime, according to Leftists. Consequently, young people are drilled into believing that they are criminal because of their melanin levels.  On the “Teaching Tolerance” site, students are told by author Cory Coll...

  • October 23, 2018

    Population Stabilization or Suicidal Demographics?

    Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth) proclaims that ever since the group's founding "[t]he Western Hemisphere as a whole is now below [population] replacement rate." When they formed in 1968, "only four nations w...

  • September 9, 2018

    Bring Back Shame

    Now that the eulogy – I mean grotesque political self-aggrandizing McCain Aretha Franlin funeral service – is over, featuring some of the most egotistical, self-serving, and corrupt individuals, Candace Owens succinctly states t...

  • September 6, 2018

    Are Feminists Aiding Muslim Domination?

    "What do you think about ... creating an awesome festival where only non-men are welcome until ALL men learn how to behave?"  This comes from the article titled "Women Cheer as Sweden's Man-Free Music Festival Kicks Off....

  • August 31, 2018

    The Permeation of Propaganda in the College Student Brain

    In 1937, an editorial in The New York Times declared that "what is truly vicious is not propaganda but a monopoly of it."  Thus begins an article titled "Propaganda Techniques of German Fascism," written by Clyde R. Mill...

  • August 29, 2018

    Toxic Antibiotics

    Urinary tract infections affect millions of women, and often they are prescribed Ciprofloxacin (Cipro), Gemifoxacin (Factive), Levofloxacin (Levaquin), Moxifloxacin (Avelox), Norfloxacin (Noroxin), or Ofloxacin (Floxin).  These are fluoroqu...

  • August 20, 2018

    Chinese Infiltration in American Schools

    In April of 2017, Rachelle Peterson of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) published an in-depth study titled "Outsourced to China: Confucius Institutes and Soft Power in American Higher Education."  Her findings reveal Chi...

  • August 17, 2018

    Barbara Jordan on Impeachment

    With the constant cries for impeachment that swirl around Donald J. Trump, it is incumbent upon us to remember the wise and reasoned words of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who on July 25, 1974 gave an eloquent and dispassionate speech ...

  • August 15, 2018

    A Teacher's Lament, Then and Now

    In his 1962 essay titled "A Dog in Brooklyn, a Girl in Detroit: A Life among the Humanities," from The Age of Happy Problems, Herbert Gold recounts how "neither glory nor pleasure nor power, and certainly not wisdom, provided the goal ...

  • August 8, 2018

    Millennials, Socialism, and Equality

    Zach Carter of the Huffington Post is telling Baby-Boomers that they are getting their knickers all in a twist and really should tone down their worries since, after all, "socialism is good now." Carter, senior politi...

  • July 11, 2018

    The Racism of the Alleged Affronted

    At the Consortium of Higher Education for LGBT Resource Professionals, one learns that at an upcoming webinar, "queer and trans people of color are welcome to join and engage in or observe the space.  However, we do want to provide a c...

  • July 9, 2018

    Using a Movie to Bash Israel

    I am not a naïve Jew.  I am only too aware that if Jews ceased to exist, most of the world would shrug its shoulders, and, in fact, many would silently say "good riddance."  I am quite cognizant that the very existe...

  • June 17, 2018

    Death of Susanna: Anti-Semitism never goes away

    Having recently visited the Jewish Museum in New York City, I learned of a series of paper engravings titled "In the Eruv of Theresienstadt." In their diabolical way, the Nazis fooled the world concerning the ghastly concentration and ex...

  • June 17, 2018

    A disgrace by German leftist parliamentarians

    In death, a young Jewish girl, Susanna Maria Feldmann, is dishonored by German leftists in the Bundestag. This You Tube video showing Claudia Roth of the German Green party making a mockery of the murder of a young German Jewish teen reminds one of t...

  • June 13, 2018

    Terrorist Time Bombs in the Making

    One of the most despicable things that the Arab world does to its children is to turn them into human bombs.  Propaganda in the form of songs is regularly broadcast on the Palestinian radio, The Voice of Palestine, as well as the ...

  • June 5, 2018

    New Jersey and Gun Control

    The gun control conundrum will continue ad infinitum.  But what is happening in New Jersey should frighten anyone -- gun owner or not.  NJS102 will most likely be affirmed by the Democrat senate majority in the NJ legislature.  The NJ ...

  • June 1, 2018

    Does Gun Control Lead to Genocide?

    Rational conversations about gun control are difficult to come by.  Hyperbole as well as deliberate misstatements only lead to emotional tirades.  With this in mind, I will tread carefully toward illuminating the question posed by...

  • May 30, 2018

    Starbucks and denial

    Starbucks is forcing its people to mute their internal warning systems with its social justice indoctrination.  It is always the left's agenda to coerce people into one way of thinking.  Under the guise of compassion, Starbuck...

  • May 29, 2018

    A Politically Incorrect Feminist

    The word memoir comes from the French memoire, meaning "memory" and it is an apt description of Phyllis Chesler's latest book titled A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warrior...

  • May 22, 2018

    Jihad via the Ballot Box

    In his 2008 book titled Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, Andrew C. McCarthy sounded the alarm when he described a "zealous international network of warriors dead certain that history and Allah are on their side."...

  • May 14, 2018

    Push Back against the Jihadists in Disguise

    It has long been the absolute intention of the Muslim Brotherhood and other jihadist terror groups to infiltrate and completely alter the United States via American schools, the armed forces, the entertainment industry, and the go...

  • May 8, 2018

    Kanye West and the Rabbis

    I admit that I am absolutely unfamiliar with the music of Kanye West. But I also suspect that Mr. West is unaware of how his latest comments on slavery actually echo the interpretations of slavery that permeate Jewish classical texts. When the peo...

  • April 23, 2018

    Chipping Away at the Second Amendment

    In 1993, Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman of the group Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership published a document titled "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny," which highlights the similarities between the Nazi Weapons ...

  • April 10, 2018

    The Surreal World of Teaching

    College continues to get more interesting.  One young man who missed 15 out of 28 days of school explains that he and "his ex-girlfriend just had a baby."  When asked who would take care of the baby, the boy (also a prod...

  • March 26, 2018

    Stop Diminishing the Men

    There is a "gender crisis" in America today, and it has nothing to do with the alleged 63 varieties of genders espoused by leftists.  Nor does it have to do with women's marches.  Quite simply it deals with the ...

  • March 13, 2018

    The Ongoing Plight of Christians

    In the CQ Researcher issue titled "Religious Persecution," dated November 21, 1997, Kenneth Jost highlighted the "well-documented cases of churches being bulldozed or burned down, clergy and lay leaders [being] arrested and i...

  • February 26, 2018

    American Rhythms

    In Mitch Albom's magical book titled The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, "narrated by the voice of Music itself," there is a singular line that describes what is sorely lacking in our world today.  Many people speak of t...

  • February 11, 2018

    The Feminist Useful Idiot

    On Thursday, February 8, 2018, Tucker Carlson featured Sonia Ossorio, president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).  The portion begins here at 20:30.  The interview occurred because Macy's ha...

  • January 27, 2018

    The Feminist Movement is Failing Women

    It would be folly to maintain that change is not sorely needed to improve the lives of many women around the world.  Clearly the West has long been in the forefront of fundamental change.  In 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft penned A Vindication of...

  • January 19, 2018

    Foolish and Dangerous Jews

    In Eastern European folklore, "the city of Chelm functions as an imaginary city of fools, similar to that of the Greek Abdera, the English Gotham, and the German Schilda."  In fact, the "Chelm tales describe outlandish naivet...

  • January 15, 2018

    Will Indiana Choose a Genuine Conservative Congressman?

    It is clear that much still needs to be done to maintain the many encouraging strides President Trump has already made in his first year.  And with so many long-term Republicans retiring, it is critical to look for impeccable conservative c...

  • January 9, 2018

    Leftists and Islamists: Strange Bedfellows

    It cannot be repeated enough that the Marxist-anarchist radical left Antifa and Islamic jihadists have joined forces to destroy Western civilization.  Known as the Red-Green Axis, this unlikely alliance of leftists with Islamic gr...

  • January 5, 2018

    Shred the Veil

    In the 2014 book Princess: More Tears to Cry by Jean Sasson, the protagonist, Princess Sultana Al' Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia, recounts how "to this day there are teenage Saudi boys living in Riyadh who, taught by their fathers and the cleric...

  • December 30, 2017

    White Privilege: An Article of Left-Wing Faith

    In Yiddish, the term dreck means excrement, dung, crap, or worthless junk.  It is an apt term for the deliberate psychological damage being inflicted upon young Americans as they navigate the leftist swamp of higher education. White...

  • December 29, 2017

    The Islamic Brew of Racism, Apartheid, and Slavery

    While the world is in a dither about America recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, it is, predictably, totally unconcerned about the constant and ongoing practice of "legally or culturally enforced discrimination and/or persecution base...

  • November 30, 2017

    Hey, Colin: Do Your Knees Hurt Yet?

    Watching the now weekly spectacle of football players bending their knees in protest when the National Anthem is played makes me wonder if they have ever given a scintilla of thought to the bended knees of broken women as they are sold in the slave m...

  • November 27, 2017

    World War II Islam and Modern Islam: Know Thy Enemy

    At the end of his eminently important and succinct book, titled Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, author Dr. Sebastian Gorka includes the original secret telegram written in 1946 at the onset of the Cold War, wherein the American diplomat and Russia...

  • October 23, 2017

    Finally, the Missing Puzzle Piece

    It has always niggled me as to what the always arrogant 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, actually meant when he was caught on an open microphone telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he needed more "flexibility...

  • September 4, 2017

    Name-Calling -- What a Catharsis!

    I am slowly cleaning out my personal library. Of course, each volume must be scrupulously examined, marginal notes savored, and finally the book itself must be dusted and either put back among the shelves or given away. One of the gems is a 1986 b...

  • September 1, 2017

    A Clarion Call for Reason

    That the Left could besmirch the gentle heroism and kindness depicted in this picture should be evidence enough of the malignant growth that is now casting a pall over America. It is time for Americans to put the vile genie back in its box. In his...

  • August 4, 2017

    Time for Trump to Get Rid of McMaster

    Apparently, President Trump was not aware of the decision by national security adviser H.R. McMaster to grant senior Obama official Susan Rice top-secret security clearance.  This disturbing news was revealed by Sara Carter of Circa News, who do...

  • July 7, 2017

    A New Fantasy of Power

    In his book titled Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary, editor Steven R. Weisman cites an October 5, 1973 letter of Moynihan's affirming that [Norman] Podhoretz is at the height of his form. He has it. He ...

  • July 6, 2017

    Is YouTube Fueling Jihad?

    Is YouTube a training site for terrorists? Gordon Rayner, political editor for the UK Daily Telegraph has discovered that British "counter-terrorism officers secretly recorded an alleged ISIL-inspired terror cell . . . discussing how to use YouT...

  • July 3, 2017

    The Death Spiral of Socialism

    The total abrogation of personal autonomy for the parents of baby Charlie Gard as courts in the United Kingdom and in Europe simultaneously and arbitrarily decided what his parents can and cannot do for their extremely ill child is another symptom of...

  • June 30, 2017

    The End of Embracing America?

    No immigrant who has come to America has had an easy beginning.  The difficulties are reflected in learning a different language with its mind-boggling idioms, understanding a new culture, and ultimately needing to be self-sufficient.  Ofte...

  • June 24, 2017

    Health Care's Four Horsemen

    Should the Senate Republican health care reform legislation pass, it will usher in another house of horrors just like Obama's patently not affordable health care law. In 2008, Drs. Mark Albanese, George Mejicano, and Larry Gruppen, concerned a...

  • June 16, 2017

    Separate and Certainly Not Equal

    At the collegefix.com site, one learns that at New York University, students demanded that "an entire floor of the mixed use building in the Southern Superblock plan be entirely dedicated to Students of Color, and another for Queer Students on c...

  • June 9, 2017

    Going Postal over Health Care

    Anchor Insurance has announced that it will not offer insurance plans on the Ohio ObamaCare exchange next year, leaving 20 counties without any subsidized insurance options. Regarding the Anthem departure, the New York Times breezily dismisses the...

  • June 9, 2017

    Muslims confirm their own proclivity for terror

    On June 5, 2017, it was reported that the London attack vigil, "led by London mayor Sadiq Khan, saw a procession of Muslims given the opportunity to first, and separately, lay flowers at the scene. While the group of men first laid flowers, othe...

  • June 2, 2017

    Chastising Simon and Schuster

    If you are disturbed about the gruesome photo shoot of Kathy Griffin depicting President Trump's severed head, then you will be equally disgusted at the comment of New York Times bestselling author of children's books Ken Jennings. ...

  • May 31, 2017

    European Ignorance of War

    Poet, novelist, essayist, translator and winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, Czeslaw Milosz died on August 14, 2004. He was born in Lithuania of Polish parents and lived under two totalitarian systems of modern history -- national socialis...

  • May 26, 2017

    Unadulterated Evil: Remembering Manchester

    In The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, radical evil is described in the following fashion: By the way, a Bulgarian . . . told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria[.]  They burn villages, m...

  • May 20, 2017

    Dilbert's Perspective on the Muslim Invasion

    In 1963, President Kennedy spoke to members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.  Kennedy asserted that "what makes editorial cartooning such a wonder" is the ability to "entertain and instruct us ... and ... plac...

  • May 19, 2017

    Must-watch video: 'Dishonorable Disclosures'

    In light of the ongoing manipulation and twisting of news that permeates far too much of the media – e.g., the Washington Post and the New York Times – this 2012 shocking piece entitled "Dishonorable Disclosures" needs to be vie...

  • May 14, 2017

    Ayn Rand, Altruism, and Jihad

    In fathoming the failure of Europeans to protect their own interests against the onslaught of Islamic jihadism, one is reminded of Ayn Rand's quotation that "[r]eason is not automatic.  Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. ...

  • April 28, 2017

    The Spreading Tentacles of Censorship

    The list of those who are "disinvited" to forums where free speech should exist keeps getting longer.  In some ways, it is a badge of honor to be included in that list; in other aspects, of course, it is the abject failure to respect t...

  • April 23, 2017

    The Outrages of Sharia

    As sharia continues to make inroads in America and Europe, we should take heed of Ralph Waldo Emerson who once wrote:   "[w]e began well.  No inquisition here. No kings, no nobles. No dominant church here, heresy has lost its t...

  • April 3, 2017

    Pacifism Kills

    In his 1941 review titled "No, Not One" of Alex Comfort's novel No Such Liberty, George Orwell explains that the protagonist of the story is put before a tribunal because he has "declared that he will not fight against the Nazis, t...

  • March 20, 2017

    Mingling with Foes

    On November 19, 2003, Phyllis Chesler wrote a searing piece recounting the time when she addressed a women's "networking" conference of "mainly African-American and Hispanic-American womanists and feminists at Barnard Col...

  • March 17, 2017

    What Message Can Be Gleaned from Contradictory Ideas?

    Recently, I was sent this piece about Robert David Steele who was a former Marine Corps infantry officer and then a spy for the CIA. At his own site, he claims to be "the Chief Enabling Officer CeO [sic] of Earth Intelligence Network, devoted to...

  • March 9, 2017

    ISIS Trading in Antiquities and People

    With the Jewish holiday of Purim approaching, it is incumbent upon all decent people -- whatever their religious persuasion -- to fully understand that ISIS jihadists are the lineal descendents of the cruel and ancient Amalekites with their bestial d...

  • March 9, 2017

    A day without brains – I mean women

    I truly wonder what other people from countries around the world think of us when they see pictures like the one below at this site.  This represents the "Day Without A Woman" rallies being held throughout the country.  These...

  • March 7, 2017

    How the Media Create the Culture

    Cultural messages surround us in ways that would be hardly imaginable in the days of our grandparents. Recently, I received a discount offer to subscribe to the Family Circle magazine. Over twenty-five years ago, I would regularly purchase this magaz...

  • March 3, 2017

    Islam, the Veil, and Oppression

    I am currently reading Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World by Katherine Zoepf. One chapter discusses the use of the veil or the hijab and it is a most telling revelation about the astonishing diffe...

  • February 28, 2017

    Guess which important person got the middle finger at Fashion Week

    Apparently, it is Fashion Week, and Julie Tong relates that "Italian favorites from Gucci to Prada filled their collections with opulent color, excess, and maximalist style.  While at Versace, powerful words like 'unity,' 'coura...

  • February 26, 2017

    Vaccines and Terrorism

      What better way to conquer your enemy than through the use of vaccine terrorism?  Apparently the country of Denmark did not consider the ramifications of the aforementioned question because it "recently sold its state-owned vaccine ...

  • February 20, 2017

    Charter Schools Are No Panacea

    Now that Betsy DeVos has been selected as secretary of education, it is important to consider the issue of charter schools in a reasoned and logical fashion. Parents should have the ability to choose the school they deem best for their children....

  • February 9, 2017

    Pity the Children of the Islamic World

    In April 2016, a video by Hamas was exposed showing "hysterical children in the company of exorcising preachers. It is a humiliating and invasive rite practiced at the Al-Nil School in Gaza City." It is, however, hardly a surprise for peopl...

  • January 1, 2017

    How Do You Stop Good People from Hurting Themselves?

    How do you stop good people from careening over a cliff?  How do you protect decent Jewish philanthropic women from aligning with groups who would be quite happy to hurt them in many ways? A Women's March is scheduled for Saturday, Januar...

  • December 27, 2016

    Obama's Hatred for Israel

    The anti-Israel U.N. resolution of December 23, 2016, which the United States abstained from, is the crowning glory of an anti-Semitic and anti-American administration.  It is the coda to a dismal eight years from a radical leftist regime that h...

  • December 26, 2016

    Dear Michelle: There Most Certainly Is Hope

    In her usual crass, coarse, and graceless manner, Michelle Obama epitomized the very worst of the America she so disdains when she opined about "hopelessness" regarding the election.  She conveniently forgets about the debt her husband...

  • November 26, 2016

    Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh

    Petrus Paulus Vergerius, (1370-1444) educator, doctor of medicine and canon law wrote what has become known as the preeminent Renaissance treatise on education wherein he asserted that "what can we do better than gather our books around us... to...

  • October 31, 2016

    Surrendering Our Birthright?

    How do you tell a cynical millennial that there is still hope and promise in America? How do you persuade a young person who sees a tattered American dream that there are ways to reinvigorate this country? How do we convince a young American to reali...

  • October 19, 2016

    Obamacare Is the Ultimate Death Panel

    Remember when Sarah Palin was excoriated for suggesting that ObamaCare contained death panels?  Then we learned that the nonexistent death panels were actually deleted from the law and then, oops, economist Paul Krugman let slip that "...we...

  • October 2, 2016

    Sacrificed on the Altar of Jihad Terror

    In 2009, author Lila Rosenbloom wrote about the act of remembrance in Judaism.  One of the most important ways that the State of Israel chooses to remember the Holocaust is to sound a two-minute long siren throughout the country.  Sirens th...

  • August 30, 2016

    How Many Ways Do You Say Liar, Hillary?

    In his 1978 paperback titled Word Power Made Easy, author Norman Lewis devotes an entire chapter to the number of words used to describe lying. Thus, "it was the famous Greek philosopher and cynic Diogenes who went around the streets of Athens, ...

  • August 25, 2016

    A Hillary Presidency: Who Will Be in Charge?

    In the 2012 book titled Stalin's Secret Agents by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein, there is a chapter detailing Franklin Delano Roosevelt's serious and obvious decline of health as he entered the pivotal Yalta talks at the end of...

  • August 14, 2016

    Fighting the Propaganda War and Winning

    An Israeli movement known as Im Tirtzu (IMTI) has been instrumental in publicizing the infiltration of Israeli organizations perceived as human rights organizations, but, which, in reality, are actually Foreign Agent organizations bent on destroying ...

  • August 1, 2016

    Is there a backstory about Khizr Khan and Donald Trump?

    What is one to make of the Democratic Convention speech of Khizr Khan, a Pakistani-born Virginia lawyer whose son Humayun was killed in action in Iraq in 2004?  According to Byron York: Khan's brief speech wasn't a finely-detail...

  • July 28, 2016

    Michelle Obama and the Content of Her Character

    Michelle Obama's 2016 speech to the DNC stands in sharp contrast to an essay written in the early 1990s by Glenn Loury titled "Free at Last? A Personal Perspective on Race and Identity in America." Loury recounts how, as a young black m...

  • July 25, 2016

    Princeton and ‘Inclusion’

    In the brave new world of higher education, one finds that a Senior Diversity & Inclusion Specialist is needed for Princeton University in New Jersey. Thus, Princeton University's Office of Human Resources (HR) seeks to fill a newly c...

  • July 15, 2016

    We Need to Hate

    Quite frankly, Western civilization is losing the capacity to hate hatred. Far too many Europeans and Americans are engaging in outright denial of the most heinous and evil occurrences across the globe. Too many people will not truly acknowledge ...

  • June 15, 2016

    When Does the Learning Curve Kick In?

    It is beyond disquieting when warnings that have been issued for years are ignored, and as a consequence, innocent Americans are the sacrificial lambs for this evil disease known as Islamic jihad, or war against kafirs (infidels) to establish Islam...

  • May 31, 2016

    The Shame of Rep. Zoe Lofgen

    On January 12, 2016 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) "announced the creation of a Task Force on Executive Overreach to examine the historic breakdown of the separation of powers and checks and balances that has led to the...

  • May 22, 2016

    Who Am I? Gender and Locker Rooms

    The existential "Who Am I?" question is taking on a radical new meaning in light of the gender bathroom subject. Yet this issue is a lineal descendant of certain quarters of radical feminism which has always wanted to eliminate male/female ...

  • May 15, 2016

    Teaching While White

    Teaching While White (TWW) is becoming an occupational hazard these days. So is being a white student, for that matter. At the "Unofficial Scripps College Survival Guide," students learn that "white peers and faculty -- portray Claremo...

  • May 13, 2016

    Jihadists in White Coats

    In his 2008 book Jihad and American Medicine, Dr. Adam Frederic Dorin considers what "thinking like a terrorist" would entail in terms of attacks on our healthcare system. According to the blurb "Dr. Dorin's unique book offers the ...

  • March 30, 2016

    A Most Successful Experiment

    It is difficult to imagine that the largest ongoing social experiment on how to thwart natural instincts continues to reap such rich rewards. It is not only a psychologist's thought-provoking field of study, it is an anthropologist's most int...

  • March 29, 2016

    Beware Obama, the Benevolent

    When President Obama stages a photo op to publicize signing a measure he claims will “help” American workers, you can be almost certain that “unintended consequences” will outweigh any intended benefits.  Lacking even an ...

  • March 22, 2016

    How Can I Possibly Grade These Students?

    It's grade-grubbing season again.  With it come nervous, angry, and very rude students. How can I possibly grade the following actual unedited submissions? Attached is the actual outline for my ruff raft. Please, account this as cre...

  • March 11, 2016

    Enough with the Double Standards for Muslims

    If alleged Islamophobia causes Muslims to pillage, rape, and slaughter, then how come centuries of anti-Semitism have not produced a raging Jewish population hell-bent on murder?  Or if cartoons about Muhammad can cause homicidal riots, how come...

  • March 9, 2016

    Remembering the Brave

    I am disgusted by constantly seeing pictures of the San Bernardino murderers continually splashed across newspapers and on the internet. They represent the worst of humankind and deserve no visual recognition. They are the dregs of mankind and deserv...

  • March 7, 2016

    Muslim Responsibility and Western Inaction

    In the March 2016 issue of National Geographic it is noted that a marble dolphin with a fish in its mouth turned up at a site in the Negev Desert in Israel. The 16-inch statue was embedded in the floor of a seventh-century building. Although some arc...

  • March 4, 2016

    Muslims and the Maypole

    Since 2006, when Bruce Bawer wrote his illuminating book entitled While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, the situation has worsened tenfold.  Not surprisingly, when his book was first published, Bawer was accus...

  • February 23, 2016

    Authentic Rebellion

    In almost every venue today, we find that "new slogans, political and social [are] used often with calculated ambiguity. Extreme positions, on the right and on the left, are becoming more and more uncompromising. Moderation is taken for apathy, ...

  • January 26, 2016

    The Patience of the Jihadists

    The ongoing interpretations concerning natural-born citizenship may eventually become a moot point.  With the burgeoning immigration of groups of people who have little to no devotion to American ideals but who will have children born on America...

  • January 20, 2016

    Islam and Rape: Joined at the Hip

    Pamphlets being issued in Germany to Muslim male refugees that they are not to grope or fondle European women reveal the rank stupidity, ignorance, and sheer indifference of European leaders as they continue down a suicidal trajectory. Of course t...

  • December 28, 2015

    American Freedom or Sharia Compliance

    In 1965 Elizabeth Warnock Fernea joined her husband, a social anthropologist, in a southern Iraqi village.  Her time there is recorded in Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Although balking at first, she decides to wear the...

  • December 10, 2015

    Millennials Waking Up to the Threat of Terrorism?

    I often show the 2006 documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West to my college students.  For many, it is an incredible eye-opener.  With the latest terrorist attacks by jihadists in Paris and California, this movie is ...

  • November 29, 2015

    Is America on Its Way to Fascism?

    In his 1954 book entitled Today's Isms: Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Capitalism, Dr. William Ebenstein cogently describes the various "isms" that continue to convulse the world. As personal liberty is eroded in this country and Ame...

  • November 14, 2015

    Of Microbes and Climate Change

    In the unrelenting clamor about global cooling of the 1970s, global warming of recent times, and now the current renamed climate change, reasonable people would be well served to read the 1926 book entitled Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif.  As a lit...

  • October 20, 2015

    The Ivory Tower Continues to Crumble

    This semester I am teaching developmental reading at a local community college. This means that most of the students are reading at sixth-grade reading level. Their writing skills are, at best, very basic. Below is a sample of an unedited paragraph (...

  • October 12, 2015

    No Whites Allowed

    When it was written in 1986, a children's book entitled Living in Two Worlds attempted to highlight the various attitudes that reflect what biracial children might encounter growing up.  Pictures of biracial children abound in the book....

  • September 29, 2015

    Iran's Cynical Cooperation

    Like Cassandra who spurned the advances of Apollo and was forever destined to be ignored, those Americans who refuse to bow to the dictates of Obama are being sidelined as they valiantly attempt to stop the diabolical desire to strengthen the number ...

  • September 27, 2015

    Am I Still a Racist?

    To see the emptiness of liberal/Democrat logic, try the following at the next dinner party. If I vote for Ben Carson, am I still guilty of being a racist, considering the way you hurled that accusation at me when I told you that Obama was a very b...

  • September 9, 2015

    Strategic Lying and Obama

    In the chapter entitled "The Arts of Selling" from 1958's Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote that "[t]he survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the ligh...

  • September 7, 2015

    From the Ashes

    As a zamler, or book collector, I have been invited into the homes of people who, though they may not understand Yiddish, do not want to discard the Yiddish books that their grandparents used to read and cherish.  I collect the books and send th...

  • August 15, 2015

    Do We Destroy Life to Enhance Life?

    Years before Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, German scholars were advocating the killing of "worthless" people under the protection of the state. On April 7, 1933 the Nazis eliminated "long established ethical and administrative public superv...

  • August 10, 2015

    'Death to America' Falling on Obama's Deaf Ears

    We are well past the point where we can ever believe Obama the man because, as those prescient about Obama's background instinctively understood, whatever was taught  Obama the child is what is now being reflected in his dangerous anti-Ameri...

  • July 19, 2015

    The continuing age of Moloch

    Moloch was the ancient deity to whom child sacrifices were made.  And, in fact, biblical texts refer to the sacrifice of children in a number of passages – e.g., Psalms 106:37-38;  Jeremiah 7:31, Ezekiel 20:25-6; Jeremiah 19:5; Ezekie...

  • July 15, 2015

    What Is Your Child Really Learning in Middle School?

    Recently, ION Television cited Oman Frame in their "Everyday Heroes" segment for his work on race, gender, and class.  Those last three words caught my attention, since white privilege is a constant meme in the academic world.  ...

  • July 13, 2015

    Obama's Endgame

    In the winter of 1993, Colin Ferguson exercised his racial animosity against whites by shooting passengers on a commuter train from Manhattan.  Upon investigation, it was found that he had a vendetta against whites. After the Rodney King case...

  • June 25, 2015

    Are We Truly Surprised?

    Seven years of purposeful race-baiting, deliberate legal bias against white people, and executive decisions that engage in the soft bigotry of low expectations of black people create the very brew that would lead to the horrific events in South Carol...

  • June 6, 2015

    The Sham of the Ivory Tower

    Nothing more pointedly and poignantly describes the state of colleges in the United States today than the comment by Jen Lara in the March 16th issue of Community College Week wherein she writes "[o]ur job is to teach the students we have. ...

  • May 25, 2015

    Are We Running Out of Time?

    In writing about his beloved Cuba, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo asserts that "totalitarianism is as much about tyranny as about [the] manipulation of time."  He knows only too well how the Castro brothers have destroyed the hopes and dreams...

  • May 18, 2015

    I Don't Need No Daddy

    It's been a troubling semester, but not because many of my students passively and/or actively resist the knowledge that I try to pass on to them.  It's been frustrating not merely because government regulations and mandates have made me ...

  • May 7, 2015

    To Thug or Not to Thug

    As I expected, a number of the college students I instruct took exception to the use of the word thug as applied to the individuals who created mayhem and madness in Baltimore last week. That "their" president used the term was of litt...

  • April 20, 2015

    Obama's Three Premises

    Based on President Obama's actions of the past seven years, one can surmise that his worldview is based on three major premises.  His economic perspective is deliberately aimed at weakening the United States.  Thus, despite the disastro...

  • March 21, 2015

    Obama's Locus

    Analytical individuals keep asking how Obama can engage in talks with Iran, a country that makes no secret of its contempt for the United States. Discerning Americans of all stripes are horrified by Iran's never-ending screeds about wiping Isr...

  • March 13, 2015

    Obama Is Not Hitler

    Any comparison between Obama and Hitler trivializes the memory of those millions who perished as a direct result of Hitler's deep-seated anti-Semitism and hatred of the "other."  Obama is not establishing concentration or extermina...

  • March 8, 2015

    Refuse to Surrender

    Jewish time is not measured in years. It is measured in space; the transitions from one age to another continually merge with each other. Rabbi Hanina ben Teradyon casting a merciful last rite on his Roman executioner who chose to die with his victim...

  • February 19, 2015

    Euthanasia on the Horizon?

    In the article titled "Medical Science Under Dictatorship" printed in the July 14, 1949 New England Journal of Medicine, author Leo Alexander, M.D. noted that "[s]cience under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy...

  • February 18, 2015

    Cicero and Obama

    The importance of Cicero in Western thought cannot be underestimated. According to Garrett Lysford, the "American Republic is hardly a new idea and is in fact a mere innovation of a far more ancient political system: The Roman Republic." Th...

  • February 9, 2015

    Obama's Fanaticism

    When Obama burst upon the scene, prescient souls saw through the mask and asserted that, like all alleged utopian dreams, his would only result in inequalities and injustices. As world-renowned Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the Bri...

  • January 31, 2015

    President Gumball

    As a little girl, I was always reminded by my mother that gum chewing was in poor taste. She would recite this little ditty and it has stuck with me ever since. It seems so apropos when watching the spectacle of our President-of-Poor-Manners as ...

  • January 5, 2015

    ISIS and the Decimation of a Culture

    In the foreword to Catastrophe: The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past, Gil J. Stein, director of the Oriental Institute, writes that "when we think of the awful consequences of war, the deaths of the soldiers and civilians always remind...

  • January 3, 2015

    Obama and Cuba

    As a direct result of Obama's intervention in Cuba, "a large group of prominent Havana dissidents -- activists, civil society advocates and independent journalists -- were arrested as they headed for a pro-free speech... event." Amon...

  • December 27, 2014

    The Reason for Free Speech

    Walter Lippmann began writing The Public Philosophy in 1938 and completed it in 1955.  His words have particular relevance today when the Obama administration tries to "discredit stories and sources and reporters that the powers-that-be don...

  • December 10, 2014

    Obama's Monomania

    The mark of a good bully is to leave a trail of destruction behind him. Obama is quite practiced at this. The bully pulpit is his and he uses it to his utmost advantage to maintain the shrill rant that "[r]ace remains a factor in the society. Th...

  • November 30, 2014

    The Real Tragedy of Ferguson Is...

    In light of comments such as those by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, one needs to consider the context of recent events in Ferguson. Weingarten asserts that . . . the fact remains that on Aug. 9, an unarmed black tee...

  • November 24, 2014

    No Shame for Obama

    It is official: Obama has now ushered in the Age of the Dictator for America.  This man is, in essence, acting as emperor of this country.  Despite the will of the American people, despite the outright illegal usurpation of rights that the ...

  • November 8, 2014

    I Did Not Come to College to Read

    I recently found a 1984 edition of Comprehensive English by Harold Levine.  An Amsco publication, it was meant to "help students pass the New York State Comprehensive Examination with distinction."  At the time, the examination co...

  • November 2, 2014

    Her Name Was Chaya

    Her name means life in Hebrew but this Jewish Israeli-American infant had few precious days on this earth before the monster destroyed her and scarred her family forever. Her last moments were at the Western Wall, where this picture of Chaya Zisel Br...

  • October 30, 2014

    Obama and the Safety of our Blood Supply

    Each day another damning detail emerges about President Obama's deliberate assault on every facet of America's institutions and the potentially dire effects on Americans.  With the burgeoning host of diseases now entering the U.S., court...

  • October 27, 2014

    Disease and Obama

    When the Islamic jihadists struck on 9-11, it was clear that one of their main aims was to destroy the economic success that characterized American exceptionalism.  To that end, the airline industry was very adversely affected.   Thus:...

  • October 6, 2014

    Is This the Real Obamacare?

    The biblical prophets of old were constantly scorned for their prescience, and yet their understanding of human behavior and the outcomes of such behavior still speak to us moderns today.  The dizzying array of actions condoned by Obama is be...

  • August 23, 2014

    Just Moseying Around in BHO Land

    Last week when I went to peruse the shelves at Barnes & Noble and used my educator card for a purchase, I was asked to show a photo ID.  The next day, when I went for a planned medical procedure, I was required to display a photo ID.  A...

  • August 12, 2014

    IRS and Barack's Half-Brother

    In April 2012, Indiana's news station WTHR conducted a "Tax Loophole" investigation that attracted the attention of millions of Americans.  They discovered "a massive tax loophole that provides billions of dollars in tax credi...

  • August 7, 2014

    Obama and Billy Budd

    In Herman Melville's classic story "Billy Budd," the narrator ponders what could be the matter with the master-at-arms "who has an animus toward the young seaman known as Billy Budd."  Therein ensues a discussion about ...

  • July 27, 2014

    Why I am Proud to be a Jew

    The ongoing existential battle in Israel is a potent reminder that even after the vileness of the Shoah, better known as the Holocaust, there are those people whose sole purpose in life is to annihilate Jews and subsequently destroy Judaism. They see...

  • July 16, 2014

    La Raza Invades the Calendar

    In preparing next term's calendar for my classes, I use the At-A-Glance PM3-28 over-sized item. Sprinkled throughout the calendar are Christian, Jewish, and Muslim holidays, information about daylight savings, and the like. Apparently since at...

  • July 11, 2014

    The Signs of Dictatorship

    As is often bemoaned by scholars, genuine classical education in American schools is virtually non-existent. Whereas 100 years ago, university students learned Greek and Latin, today, remedial math and English instruction is the norm. Yet, if peop...

  • July 4, 2014

    Obama and a Warning from Abraham Lincoln

    Concerned about the "decline in patriotic feeling and civic engagement" in present day America, editors Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass and Diana Schaub have compiled a thought-provoking anthology entitled What so Proudly We Hail: The American So...

  • July 3, 2014

    Obama and the Culture of Death

    By its own admission, the Arab world loves death more than it loves life.  Consider that "during all periods of their history, the ancient Egyptians seem to have spent much of their time thinking of death and making provisions for their ...

  • June 17, 2014

    A Sorely Needed Civics Lesson

    One hundred and twenty years ago, Theodore Roosevelt wrote "True Americanism" in the Forum magazine. The piece is a striking contrast to the ongoing barrage of anti-Americanism that too often emanates from the media and the present White Ho...

  • June 1, 2014

    A Most Successful President

    If one sets out to destroy the core pillars of a society, to incrementally break down the values of a country, and to dishearten its inhabitants, then Barack Hussein Obama has been a sterling success.  He is no amateur; he is not a feckless i...

  • May 23, 2014

    The Tragedy of the Democracies

    In 1938 Dorothy Thompson, known for being the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, penned the following: "Write it down that the democratic world broke its promises and its oaths, and capitulated, not before strength, but ...

  • April 22, 2014

    Individualism vs. Obama

    The cacophony of irrational anti-Semitism from all quarters of the world is breathtaking.  It is increasing so rapidly that pundits from all walks of life are indicating that what is happening in the world today shows "eerie parallels to 19...

  • March 21, 2014

    Obama and the Jewish State

    In August 2008, then-Senator Barack Hussein Obama put forth a list of actions he had taken to support Israel in the U.S. Senate and the Illinois Senate.  In light of Obama's consistent vacillations on so many important issues, it is worth co...

  • March 19, 2014

    Benjamin Rush, Fiery Founding Father

    In the preface to the 1942 Pocket History of the United States co-authored by Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager, one reads that from its earliest beginnings, [America's] people have been conscious of a peculiar destiny, because upon it ...

  • March 12, 2014

    ObamaCare Meets Kafka

    In Franz Kafka's "Before the Law," so ably recorded by Orson Wells here, a reader learns of the tribulations of a man who seeks access to the law.  But over the span of his lifetime, he is never permitted admittance as a single doo...

  • February 17, 2014

    A Destructive President

    President Barack Obama never admits to a mistake. Instead, egregious lawlessness is fluffed away as "not a smidgen of scandal" in relation to the IRS targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups. Instead of being a great leader, Obama distanc...

  • January 27, 2014

    Are We Still a Good Country?

    It is important to remember some guiding principles as we fight back against Barack Obama's crude and coarse behavior against our country.  Though the fight will be long and arduous, what Henry Gregor Felsen wrote in his 1961 book entitled Lette...

  • January 25, 2014

    The National Association of Scholars

    Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), was kind enough to alert me to an error made in my January 6, 2014 article entitled "More of Those European Dead Guys."  I quoted Cathy Young of the Boston Globe, who wrot...

  • January 19, 2014

    ObamaCare's Domino Effects

    Adjunct instructors at colleges are only one of the many groups whose hours were arbitrarily cut as a direct result of ObamaCare. The ObamaCare mandate defines "full-time" work as averaging 30 hours per week.  Afraid that they would be fo...

  • January 14, 2014

    Cuba: Cemetery of Hopes

    It is with deep melancholy that one reads about the ongoing suffering of Cubans under communism. January 1, 2014 marked the 55th anniversary of Cuba's communist revolution. In fact, Cuba is "the only full-blown dictatorship in the Western hemisphere"...

  • January 6, 2014

    More of those Dead European White Guys

    In his blog post of January 5, 2014, Rick Moran highlights the piece by Heather McDonald concerning the destruction of the traditional humanities course of study. In line with this, at The Chronicle of Higher Education dated December 4, 2014, one is ...

  • January 3, 2014

    How Craven Art Thou, Professor

    It is troubling that the term academic has become a term of opprobrium. But after reading the fourth volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom (JAF) published by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), it is abundantly clear why thi...

  • December 29, 2013

    Mock Evictions and Moral Blindness

    You cannot get a good education if your instructor is telling you only half the story. The following was found in an English composition classroom at a university where I teach. Hundreds of "eviction" notices were slid under Rutgers dorm and apartm...

  • December 3, 2013

    Does Obama Think He Is Lying?

    In Michael Agar's book entitled Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation, he asks "[h]ow do you speak and act a lie at the same time?" Agar maintains that there are three characteristics of an act that tell ... whether a lie occurr...

  • November 20, 2013

    Obama and His Village

    Obama, the prevaricator and ideologue clearly has no shame when it comes to lying. But the ObamaCare "Got Insurance: Let's Get Physical" ads that are now being targeted to the millennial generation hit a new record for sordidness. I have heard that ...

  • November 17, 2013

    Dysfunctional Literacy

    In the two and four-year institutions of higher learning where I teach, they have "purchased access [so instructors can] attend a live online seminar on "helping Unprepared Students Succeed in the College Classroom." With "more and more students arri...

  • November 3, 2013

    Obama and a Jewish Legend

    When Noah was told to bring two of everything into the ark before the great Flood, each animal brought a mate in order to begin a new family when the Earth would be dry again.  Thus, truth came in with peace, and love came in with good deed...

  • October 27, 2013

    Tying the Knot Under ObamaCare

    The heinous intrusions into our lives as a result of ObamaCare swell each day. Now, in true Marxist form, the ludicrously named "Affordable Care Act" mounts an all-out attack on marriage. In 2010, in a Web Memo, the Heritage Foundation pointed out th...

  • September 24, 2013

    The Wrecking Ball Known as ObamaCare

    It is mindboggling that so many people are totally unaware of ObamaCare, have no interest in discussing it, and are dismissive and rude if someone attempts to have a rational conversation about a law that will drastically change the landscape of...

  • September 17, 2013

    What Happens After the Book of Life Closes?

    As Jews the world over hearken to the sounds of the shofar marking the hope for a new beginning, it behooves people of all persuasions to be reminded, yet again, of the unique role Israel plays in humanitarian efforts worldwide. Historically, the ve...

  • September 16, 2013

    Obama Nods to Putin

    The pundits have expressed shock, dismay, disgust, and embarrassment concerning Obama's apparent hapless handling of the Syrian situation.  There appears to be widespread astonishment that an American president would permit a Russian ex-KGB lead...

  • September 4, 2013

    UNRWA and Palestinian Hatred

    We in the West think about child abuse in terms of physical and sexual brutality. In all totalitarian societies, however, child abuse also takes the form of intense psychological manipulation. And no better example can be found than this recent You ...

  • August 24, 2013

    What Animates Barack Hussein Obama?

    In a 2013 fund-raising letter, Allen West wrote that "Obama's completely incoherent foreign policy is putting our strongest allies in grave danger.  His extreme ambivalence is simply unacceptable." But is it really incoherent?  Obama's me...

  • August 19, 2013

    America's Tyranny Threshold

    As he finishes up his Martha's Vineyard vacation, Barack Obama would be well-served to recall the fiery words of Jonathan Mayhew, who is famous for his sermons "espousing American rights -- the cause of liberty, and the right and duty to resist tyran...

  • August 13, 2013

    Obama Promotes Racism

    A distinct pattern of racial bias can be seen in three recent actions that have President Obama's blessings. The first was the Executive Order of July 26, 2012 wherein Barack Hussein Obama "establishes a government panel to promote 'a positive school...

  • August 11, 2013

    The Continuing Brutal Legacy of the Religion of Peace

    As Barack Hussein Obama enjoys his vacation, he should ponder the brutality of Muslims against so many groups in the world, including other Muslims.  Instead of his fawning at the recent White House iftar dinner, he should remind these co-religi...

  • July 28, 2013

    Please, Let's Have that Honest Conversation about Race

    So let's have that honest discussion about race that people keep clamoring for. Someone please explain the brainwashing of a 5th-grade African-American girl who, when she was introduced to  Duke Ellington's music, said, "I don't wanna hear no ...

  • July 27, 2013

    To Cry for Cuba

    In his book entitled I Was Cuba: Treasures from the Ramiro Fernandez Collection, author Kevin Kwan writes  that "oppression becomes intolerable for the poet because the absolute expression of freedom is in the imagination.  The poet who doe...

  • June 28, 2013

    Lidice Revisited via Muslim Brotherhood

    Seventy-one years ago, The German Government, on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler proudly and formally announced to the world that it had razed the tiny village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, to the ground; destroyed ever...

  • June 24, 2013

    The God That Continues to Fail

    In response to an article that I wrote about Coptic Christians in Muslim countries, Cuban poet and translator Juana Rosa Pita contacted me. An author of over 20 published books of poems, her poetry has been featured in literary magazines and antholog...

  • June 12, 2013

    College President Gives His Blessings for Illegal Act

    In the Spring 2013 Lehman Today magazine of Lehman College, a CUNY 4-year college located in the Bronx, New York, one learns that Melissa Garcia-Velez, class of 2014, has been "advocating for the rights of undocumented immigrant youth" since early in...

  • June 8, 2013

    Orwell goes to College

    As yet another edition of the text titled Writing and Reading across the Curriculum edited by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen is rolled out, I am faced with a serious dilemma concerning academic integrity. In chapter 11 entitled "Have You Heard...

  • June 1, 2013

    Jew Hatred Again at the 92nd Street Y

    Jacob H. Schiff, his son-in-law Felix M. Warburg and Judge Joseph M. Proskauer must all be turning over in their graves at the news that Israel-hater Alice Walker will be a guest at the 92nd Street Y. Nurtured by these "visionary Jewish leaders," the...

  • May 27, 2013

    Could a Mayor Weiner Pose a Threat to New York City Security?

    Huma Abedin is back in the spotlight again, as her husband Anthony Weiner has announced that he is running for mayor of New York City.  The Daily Mail of the United Kingdom claims that "Huma Abedin [is] deemed her husband's greatest political as...

  • May 26, 2013

    You Think You'll Get a Free Pass?

    Our empathetic president and his vice president took time out to see well-dressed individuals "who are in the country in violation of U.S. immigration laws but who have received "'deferred action' allowing them to stay in the country," as per Homelan...

  • May 19, 2013

    Hope and Fear: Obama into 2014

    In the days before the 1905 Russian Revolution, there was great discontent with the Tsar's dictatorship.  The revolution was a "wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directe...

  • May 10, 2013

    BDS and the Intellectuals

    As a graduate student of English literature, I was constantly dismayed to discover that far too many literary luminaries held deeply anti-Semitic beliefs. Mary Ann Evans a.k.a. George Eliot was a notable exception and it was her book Daniel Deronda t...

  • May 8, 2013

    Coptic Christians Need Help Now

    If Obama were truly interested in the downtrodden of the world, he would be publicizing the plight of Egyptian Coptic Christians who are being decimated as a result of ongoing pillaging and murder by Muslim jihadists. In Raymond Ibrahim's new book, t...

  • April 15, 2013

    How Barack Obama Is Using Health Care to Balkanize America

    Last week, adjunct faculty at a local college were asked to sign a petition to the White House to "explore options to prevent colleges/universities from cutting adjunct and contingent faculty hours to circumvent [the] PPACA," better known as ObamaCar...

  • April 7, 2013

    Roger Waters and the 92nd Street Y: An Update

    Much has happened in the intervening week concerning the appearance of Roger Waters, BDS supporter, and his scheduled event at the 92nd Street Y.  The event was canceled because Mr. Waters "has a conflict." But the 92nd Street Y has remained m...

  • April 1, 2013

    ObamaCare Bites Unionized Educators

    As the proverbial offal hits the fan, adjunct instructors and their union leaders are understandably panic-stricken as they finally realize the impact of ObamaCare on their livelihoods. Union representatives are now sending their members letters sta...

  • March 31, 2013

    Should Roger Waters of Pink Floyd Appear at the 92nd Street Y?

    Inspired by the 2001 Durban UN Conference against Racism, the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS) Movement refers to an ongoing campaign by over 150 Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGO's) aimed at inflicting economic hardship on ...

  • March 26, 2013

    Ich bin ein Israeli

    I have no illusions about Obama, master of manipulation and deceit.  His latest affront to Israelis and Americans when he stood under Yasser Arafat's picture while mouthing pious words about peace should surprise no one. It behooves every free...

  • March 11, 2013

    The Most Open Administration in History

    In 1939, Konrad Heiden, an influential Jewish journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, wrote The New Inquisition. In the introduction to this book, Hendrik Willem Van Loon wrote: Adolf Hitler, I regret to say, does not yet belo...

  • February 28, 2013

    Racism as an Antidote to Racism

    In her essay "The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action," Gail Heriot, professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, highlights the "mismatch" of race-preferential admissions policies.  Basing ...

  • February 25, 2013

    Life without Father

    The research continues to affirm it.  The statistics highlight it.  But actually reading what young people have to say about the reality of missing dads and overworked but caring mothers confirms it.  There is no pretense, and the pain...

  • February 9, 2013

    Timbuktu and the Nazis

    The calculated destruction of libraries and cultural artifacts has a long history. Reading about the recent and deliberate destruction in Timbuktu, Mali by al Qaeda-backed terrorists who had governed Timbuktu reminds one of the relentless zeal of dic...

  • January 22, 2013

    Diversity and Racism

    On January 18, 2013, Rush Limbaugh had a caller who explained that she was "going to school to become a teacher ... and from the first class that [she] took in education[, she and the other prospective teachers] were being taught as teachers that [th...

  • January 20, 2013

    Educators Hit by ObamaCare

    Far too many teachers are uniformly uninquisitive.  And, sadly, their vote for Obama is coming back to bite them as the consequences of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) are finally dawning on many of them. When ObamaCare finally goes into eff...

  • January 19, 2013

    Does a Film Mirror America's Future? A Review of Barbara

    The horrors of living in communist East Germany in the 1980s are subtly and exquisitely conveyed in the 2012 German drama Barbara, written and directed by Christian Petzold.  Watching this film, I was reminded of Eva Hoffman's introduction to Ex...

  • January 15, 2013

    Lazy, Shiftless... Democrat

    Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on NBC's "Meet the Press" with David Gregory stated that "When I see another former Governor, after the President's first debate when he didn't do very well, says that the President was 'lazy' -- he didn't say h...

  • January 8, 2013

    Erasing Israel from the Map

    The denial of Israel's right to exist by erasing it from maps is a regular component of Palestinian children's schoolbooks. In September 2011 the official PA map of "Palestine" featured the PA areas and all of Israel (excluding the Golan Heights) wra...

  • January 8, 2013

    The Revenge of Obama

    During World War II, a group known as the Monuments Men, "attempted to minimize [Nazi] damage to European monuments and architecture and then track down stolen works of art. In the end Allied Forces located more than 1,000 repositories of art, sculpt...

  • December 27, 2012

    EEOC Protected Classes

    On September 19, 2012, the Newark, New Jersey Municipal Council passed Ordinance 12-1630, "which limits employers' ability to conduct criminal background checks." The ordinance went into effect November 18, 2012 and "prevents employers with five or m...

  • December 19, 2012

    Why Are Some People Prone to Obey?

    Despite mounting evidence indicating that the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, will, in fact, harm seniors; that the "stimulus" has been "nothing more than a political slush fund"; and that the myriad of regulations by Obama has stymied the econom...

  • December 5, 2012

    Jihad for Julia

    Remember the "Life of Julia" advertisement that Obama posted before the election?  It documented how the government would take care of Julia from the age of three until she was 67 years of age.  Even MSNBC's Willie Geist asserted that "[n]o...

  • November 29, 2012

    Militant Socialism in America

    Despite his "colossal economic failures" and a national debt "above $16 trillion" Barack Obama was given a second term. It is not because the conservative message was wrong; it is because Obama is a master of marketing his message. Seductive and fals...

  • October 28, 2012

    Tackling the Totalitarianism of Islam

    As the Arab Spring model implodes in the Middle East, it is even more urgent that the West understand that behind this ongoing violence is the inexorable Muslim adherence to sharia law.  Sharia is the unremitting lodestar for their actions. In ...

  • October 24, 2012

    Thank You for Re-Electing Obama

    As a soldier, I want to thank you for ensuring that I will have less than adequate protection in a field of military action now that the president has reduced military expenditures.  In fact, "Aerospace Industries Association, a trade group, rel...

  • October 7, 2012

    What I Miss About Amer!ca (a review)

    Humor is often used to mask pain, to give hope, and to "momentarily extract ourselves from the misfortunes of existence."  In order to understand the joke, irony or satire, it is necessary to put the situation in context.  Enter Stella Paul...

  • August 19, 2012

    Huma Abedin and Security Clearances

    It is still unclear whether Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's closest aide, has been properly vetted or not.  This issue rose to prominence after Michele Bachmann and four other congressional representatives expressed concerns about Huma's family's...

  • August 8, 2012

    To Vet or Not to Vet Huma Abedin

    In light of Rabbi David Saperstein's recent condemnation of Michele Bachmann's concerns about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, it is important to offer proof that Bachmann's concerns both are appropriate...

  • August 6, 2012

    Obama and the Ethics of Public Speaking

    In a popular public speaking college text[1], my students are enjoined to be honest in what they say because "public speaking rests on the unspoken assumption that 'words can be trusted and people will be truthful.'"  Clearly blatant contempt fo...

  • July 30, 2012

    No Buyer's Remorse for Dershowitz Over Obama

    What happened to Alan Dershowitz?  He has changed his tune about President Obama.  Dershowitz who was a key supporter of Obama in 2008 recently has written that, in almost four years in office, Obama has turned out to be a: pragmatic, cent...

  • July 29, 2012

    More Obama Disingenuousness on Israel

    On July 27, 2012, Barack Obama said he was "releasing an additional $70 million in military aid for Israel."  This was in anticipation of Republican rival Mitt Romney's trip to Israel the following day.  Last week, Congress passed S. 2165 w...

  • July 28, 2012

    Obama and Aesop

    After learning that the students in my public speaking class at a local college never heard of Aesop's Fables, I found my tattered 1946 edition of Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry. The book originally commissi...

  • July 25, 2012

    Proof that Huma Abedin Has Muslim Brotherhood Connections

    Michele Bachmann and four other Republican congressional representatives requested  "that no Muslim Brotherhood-associated entity or individual [be] placed into a position of honor or trust within the programs and operations of the Department of...

  • July 22, 2012

    How Immigrants Viewed American Citizenship circa 1939

    Recently while cleaning out the basement of our house, I came across a letter of commendation written on January 12, 1939 from the Principal of Seward Park High School at 350 Grand Street, New York, New York.  On the 6" x 8" stationery, Princi...

  • July 19, 2012

    Obama Continues to Despise American Energy

    The recent Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare gave sufficient cover to the administration to release a five-year plan for offshore drilling which will continue to depress the economy and eliminate energy independence in this country. This new plan "...

  • July 8, 2012

    Frederick Douglass and Chris Rock

    When Chris Rock made his deprecating and crude remark on July 4, 2012, I was reminded of the truly eloquent words of once-enslaved Frederick Douglass, whose lyricism still astonishes in the 21st century. On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass penned the...

  • July 5, 2012

    Pandering to the Black Voter

    According to DeWayne Wickham, who writes for USA Today, on June 23, 2012, Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, met with a small group of black columnists at the National Association of Black Journalists and "decried Republican obstruct...

  • July 1, 2012

    Jewish Tradition and War

    Some societies, such as the Quakers, do not approve of war under any circumstances.  On the other hand, "ancient Roman religions valorized warriors as heroes"1.  Jewish tradition, for its part, "lies somewhere in between these stances"2. Ev...

  • June 28, 2012

    The Specious Logic of the Left

    Does MSNBC's Ed Schultz really believe the nonsense that he spouts?  His never-ending rants that anyone disagreeing with Obama is a racist are base and irresponsible. Together they form a screed that appears to have no end. Given this insulting ...

  • June 17, 2012

    Firefighters and Racism

    In June of 2009, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled that two firefighting written examinations administered in 1999 and 2002 "unfairly excluded hundreds of qualified people of color from the opportunity to serv...

  • June 16, 2012

    Excluding Israel from Counterterrorism Conference

    In a letter penned on June 11, 2012, Senators Joseph Lieberman and Mark Kirk wrote to Secretary of State Clinton to "express [their] surprise and disappointment of the absence of ...Israel, from the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF)" which she att...

  • June 7, 2012

    Best Buy, CAIR and Boycotts

    With Father's Day  just over a week away, it is important to publicize the ongoing situation with Best Buy and CAIR.  Best Buy was founded by Richard Schulze in 1966 and the first store opened in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Listed in 2008 as...

  • June 3, 2012

    Muslim Outrage, Intimidation, and Blackmail

    In 1997 a huge Muslim outcry ensued that forced Nike to "recall 800,000 shoes because the Muslims claimed the company's 'Air' logo resembled the Arabic script for Allah."  Mind you, the decoration was not the name for Allah.  As a result of...

  • May 27, 2012

    Whitewashing Religious Law for Youngsters

    Respect, a "newsletter about law and diversity," is a publication of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.  It is geared for middle- and high school students.  The recent Spring 2012, Vol. 11, No. 3 article1 entitled "Fear Propels Religious ...

  • May 20, 2012

    Obama's Moral Compass

    On July 2, 2011, Rep. Trent Franks, a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, denounced the Obama administration's policy of "limited contacts" with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.  Franks emphatically stated that "the [Obama] administratio...

  • May 7, 2012

    Muslim Brotherhood Wants to Re-Elect Barack Hussein Obama

    In this YouTube video from Walid Shoebat's site, Tom Trento, of United West, describes the recent collusion of the president of the United States with the terrorist group known as the Muslim Brotherhood.  Besides heading United West, Tom Trento ...

  • April 28, 2012

    A New Declaration of Independence

    When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary to ensure that a President, who has led the country to near ruin and who is working to discard the basic principles upon which this Great Country rests, be peaceably removed it is incumbent upon...

  • April 16, 2012

    If I Were Black

    If I were black, I would be cringing in shame at the latest photo of Attorney General Eric Holder praising the likes of Al Sharpton, a man on record for very odious words and vile actions. I would hear my now-deceased grandma when she intoned that yo...

  • April 6, 2012

    Child's Play: Antisemitic Board Games

    The Simon Wiesenthal Center has written a letter to Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship requesting the removal of a board game entitled "The Settlers of the West Bank" because of its antisemitic o...

  • April 4, 2012

    Musings of a College Instructor

    The following represent the swirling conversations I hear as I travel to various colleges where I am an adjunct instructor. ** I was hurrying to my classroom when I overheard the following.  A female professor smilingly says to a student that sh...

  • March 28, 2012

    Show Me the I.D.

    Students will soon have to "upload photos of themselves when they register for ACT and SAT exams."  This new regulation is intended to "close a gaping hole in standardized-test security that allowed students to cheat and steal admissions offers ...

  • March 27, 2012

    George Washington, Barack Obama, and Civility

    Between the ages of fourteen and fifteen years George Washington wrote the slim volume entitled Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation. According to the Applewood Books edition, "[t]hese rules were drawn from an English ...

  • March 25, 2012

    Jonestown and Obama

    In the January 2012 Commentary article entitled "The Left's Great Crime" by George Russell, the protagonist of the piece is described in the following manner: He had a gift for charismatic preaching and took it to black neighborhoods ...where he pre...

  • March 21, 2012

    Suicidal Democracy

    Islamic sharia law continues its subtle and menacing march into Europe as well as into the United States. According to Soeren Kern of Stonegate, "[a] radical Islamic preacher in Spain has been arrested for calling on Muslims to use physical and psy...

  • March 18, 2012

    Pop Quiz for College Students

    I thought it would be instructive to give a quick quiz on one very current topic -- one that will have an enormous impact on your future.  Hyperlinks and footnotes are provided.  How much do you know? 1.      ...

  • December 31, 2011

    Intellectual Freedom Buried Yet Again

    In third century B.C. China, Emperor Chi'in Shi Huang Ti "buried in the Great Wall, up to their necks, numerous scholars, writers, and artists who wrote poems, history books, and painted pictures, and sliced off their heads."  This barbaric act ...

  • December 20, 2011

    Iceland Recognizes Palestine

    On November 29, 2011, Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, voted to recognize Palestine as a state.  The resolution was adopted without objections, with 38 votes in favor and 13 abstentions. Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson stated ...

  • December 4, 2011

    The Righteous Israeli

    Since beginning to write for the American Thinker, I have "met" some incredible people via e-mail.  I was recently sent this letter that reflects the poignant thoughts of an Israeli citizen-soldier who must battle the physical toll of incessant ...

  • November 13, 2011

    Coptic Christians Reach Out to Hillary Clinton

    Coptic Christians living in the United States have sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pleading for her to take more action to save their brethren in Egypt, as Egyptian Coptic Christians face increasing persecution and annihilation by...

  • October 3, 2011

    Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani

    It is my moral obligation as a Jew to speak out on behalf of an Iranian Christian whom I have never met. Imprisoned since October 2009, Yousef Nadarkhani was first accused of apostasy against Islam by the Islamic Republic of Iran.  In 2010 he wa...

  • September 18, 2011

    Michelle Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood

    With the news that "[i]nfiltration of the federal government by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned," it should come as no surprise that while Obama has been courting Muslim Brotherhood operatives, his wife has al...

  • August 15, 2011

    Obama is a Calculating, Not Stupid Individual

    More and more people are writing about Obama's alleged stupidity.  J.R. Dunn of American Thinker penned the piece "How Stupid is Obama?" and Brett Stephens' Wall Street Journal article asserts that "the president isn't very bright." I respectful...

  • August 14, 2011

    The Sacrifice of Women Continues

    The story of the Akedah or the near sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham's son, has been discussed, debated, and pondered for years.  Most moderns are aghast that such a request was made by God and even more disturbed that Abraham would, in fact, conside...

  • July 24, 2011

    American War Museum and Al-Jazeera

    Located in Maine, the General Henry Knox Museum finds itself in the news lately as it is slated to honor Al-Jazeera's Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara at its 2011 Gala event.  According to the museum, "Foukara completed a BA in English...

  • July 8, 2011

    Obama's Animus Toward Israel and Jews

    Lists have a way of coalescing important ideas into a clear and easy-to-remember format.  What then is the track record of Barack Hussein Obama with regard to Israel and Jews?  Listing the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, as a ...

  • July 4, 2011

    Obama's 4th of July gift

    Each time he brazenly breaks the law, Obama emboldens the patriots among us who want to reclaim our country.  Even though there is a ban against federal funding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, better known as ACORN,...

  • June 19, 2011

    The Muslim Brotherhood and Weiner

    Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner's dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Furthermore, Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, "is listed as a fellow and partner with a num...

  • June 17, 2011

    Sharia Finance Wins in Great Britain

    In an attempt to stop the encroachment of Sharia-compliant courts, British Baroness Caroline Cox has introduced the Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill into the House of Lords.  It is meant to halt the encroachment of sharia law i...

  • May 29, 2011

    Scotland and Jews

    Jewish-Scottish scholar David Daiches stated in his 1956 autobiography entitled Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood, that one can assert that Scotland is the only European country which has no history of state persecution of Jews.  Scots h...

  • February 7, 2011

    Appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood -- Obama's Rubicon Moment

    Signed on September 17, 1978, the Camp David Accords ushered in a peace between Egypt and Israel.  This peace is clearly in jeopardy now that Obama has shown that America can no longer be trusted to aid its allies, let alone its own interests....

  • January 17, 2011

    Last Gasp of Affirmative Action?

    In his 2004 book entitled Affirmative Action Around the World, Thomas Sowell reviews affirmative action programs in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and the United States.  The book "addresses the empirical question of just what does an...

  • January 15, 2011

    Watch Those Bullseyes and Crosshairs

    Once again, I am reminded of the 1999 John Leo piece entitled "A waspish, niggardly slur" as we witness the hysteria when people engage in political linguistic correctness.  Thus, the language muzzle rears its ugly head again.  He...

  • January 10, 2011

    Too Much Constitution?

    Critics of the reading of the Constitution in the House of Representatives overlook the incredible power of ritualized readings.One of the most amazing aspects of Judaism is the never-ending reading of the Torah.  The lengthy scroll is read from...

  • January 7, 2011

    Iberia and the Muslims -- Down a Deadly Path

    Spain has become a major battlefield between the forces of tyranny and the forces of freedom.  In September 2010, La Meca, a popular discotheque in Aguilas (Murcia), southern Spain had to "change its name and architectural design because of...

  • December 29, 2010

    How's That Religion of Peace Doing These Days?

    Only a few days remain until 2011, and still there is no end to Islamic hatred in the world.Christmas was celebrated in an unusual way in Indonesia this year.  Since sharia forbids the construction of any new churches, hundreds of members of Sai...

  • December 26, 2010

    Historical Illiteracy

    I am busy updating my English composition syllabi for the next semester and I came across the following 2008 Civics Quiz.  Although I teach English literature and composition, historical events are often alluded to in the texts and over the year...

  • December 21, 2010

    Sharia Graphically Displayed

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  • November 14, 2010

    Update on the Synod of Bishops

    After reading my article entitled "Sister Rose and the Vatican Synod," a well-meaning reader asked that I peruse the English version of the Synodus Episcoporum Bulletin Concerning the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bis...

  • November 10, 2010

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Israel

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  • November 8, 2010

    The Victims Have Faces

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  • October 31, 2010

    Sister Rose and the Vatican Synod

    In 1986, I was proud to play a very small part in the completion of the documentary research survey report by Sister Rose Thering entitled Jews, Judaism & Catholic Education. Sister Rose had prepared this work for the twentieth anniversary of the...

  • October 30, 2010

    Sister Rose and the Vatican Synod

    In 1986, I was proud to play a very small part in the completion of the documentary research survey report by Sister Rose Thering entitled Jews, Judaism & Catholic Education. Sister Rose had prepared this work for the twentieth anniversary of the...

  • October 24, 2010

    Indict Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    The World Council of Churches has enthusiastically embraced The Kairos Palestine Document. It is a diatribe replete with Israel-bashing, false accusations, and misleading information which actually legitimizes Palestinian terrorism against Israel. As...

  • October 16, 2010

    If George W. Bush Had...

    If George W. Bush had doubled the national debt in one year, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within ten years, would you have concurred?If George W. Bush had criticized a state law that he ad...

  • October 4, 2010

    Islam in France; Harbinger for America?

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  • October 3, 2010

    We Allow Them to Blackmail Us -- Islam vs. the West

    The Muslim world does not have to fire a single shot; the Western world is capitulating to the Islamists' every demand. Three recent events show the continuing and relentless interplay among Islamists worldwide. The latest assault is playing out...

  • September 25, 2010

    Liberty or License

    This amazing video from July 2010 shows a group of illegal immigrants who have broken American law being protected by an American police officer as they have the audacity of equating the American flag with the Nazi swastika.  They were not attac...

  • September 16, 2010

    Islamic Mosque Raises Money for Terrorist Group Hamas

    This 13-minute You Tube Investigative Report highlights the nefarious actions of Islamic leaders bent on destroying the West and Israel. Entitled “Busted: Orlando Mosque Finances Hamas Fundraiser” it shows the collusion of the Muslim Bro...

  • September 13, 2010

    Sharia Degradation of Women

    The unremitting degradation of women in most of the Mideast, Africa, and other parts of Asia where Islamic law plays a huge role is horrifying and appalling. Islamic law endorses slavery, demands executions for apostasy, and condones the repression o...

  • September 5, 2010

    Sharia -- Women at Risk

    In this video entitled "Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: Sharia and the US Constitution are the Same," Rauf's words are juxtaposed against pictures which reflect the reality of sharia law for the vast majority of Muslim women. Besides the viciousnes...

  • September 2, 2010

    Hillary's Choice

    Though never a fan, I used to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. I saw her as the epitome of a woman who was used by not one man, but two.  Her philandering husband shames her in front of the nation, but in good Southern tradition, Hillary is deter...

  • August 30, 2010

    America to Be Reviewed by Thugs of U.N. Human Rights Council

    On May 11, 2009, Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, expressed his deep concerns about the United Nations Human Rights Council. Havel had led the dissident movement in then-communist Czechoslovakia during the 1970s and 1980s and...

  • August 28, 2010

    Debt, Depression, Default. America is in Deep Trouble

    Consumers are spending less.  Small retailers are closing shop -- even cable television subscriptions are seeing a loss in revenue. Mike Shedlock of  globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com cites reports by Jacqui Cheng of Ars Te...

  • August 27, 2010

    Synagogues Burning

    On November 9, 1938, nearly two hundred synagogues were set afire throughout Germany under the direction of Josef Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister. Known as the "Night of Broken Glass" or "Kristallnacht," it was a time of ho...

  • August 26, 2010

    Obama's Arabic Teleprompter - Imam Rauf!

    In a stunning revelation, it appears that the controversial Imam Rauf has been quite instrumental in the crafting of the speech that Obama gave in Cairo.  This report comes from Walid Shoebat who speaks fluent Arabic.  It is a shocking audi...

  • August 26, 2010

    Tax Dollars for Mosques!

    This U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs document itemizes the six million American tax dollars being spent to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including Islamic mosques and minarets all over the world....

  • August 23, 2010

    Another mega mosque going up - this time in Tennessee

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  • August 21, 2010

    Hospitals vs. ObamaCare: Care to Guess Who's in the Middle?

    For those who knew at the outset that ObamaCare was a deliberate means to curtail American health care, drive costs up, and destroy the best health care system in the world, the headline in the Modern Healthcare supplement of August 9, 2010 will come...

  • August 21, 2010

    Disturbing Trend -- and Worse to Come

    As the economy continues to worsen under Obama's "recovery" plan, more disturbing news emerges.  A record number of workers made hardship withdrawals from their 401(k) retirement plans.  In fact, "the number of workers borrow...

  • August 20, 2010

    Why Reagan was, well, Reagan

    Ronald Reagan was more prescient than anyone could possibly have imagined. Please view this video.  It shows the stark contrast of the policies of Obama and the Congressional democrats with the traditional American values of liberty and choice...

  • August 18, 2010

    What Would a Jihadist Do?

    Would a jihadist:Cosponsor a United Nations resolution in 2009 imposing "shariah blasphemy" laws that utterly conflict with the American First Amendment's protection of free speech  After all, free speech is prohibited within the Musli...

  • August 18, 2010

    How Should We Understand the Al-Arabiya Editor?

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  • August 16, 2010

    We've Come a Long Way. How Come the Muslim World Has Not?

    Mr. Obama, This is no longer in our country.  Thank goodness. So why do you turn a blind eye to this? ...

  • August 15, 2010

    American Muslims Debate Loyalty to America

    American Muslims are debating key questions of loyalty to America, a debate in which the stakes could not be higher. Alarmingly, "no fewer than four United States citizens and a permanent U.S. resident have risen to senior leadership posts withi...

  • August 15, 2010

    Iranian Holocaust Denial Cartoons

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  • August 13, 2010

    Will the Real Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Please Stand Up?

    So now the American people learn that the State Department will be "footing the bill for Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the controversial ground zero mosque, as he embarks on a tour of the Middle East." The publicly funded trip intends ...

  • August 9, 2010

    Muslims Speak Out Against the Ground Zero Mosque

    In the Ottawa Citizen published on August 7, 2010, two Canadian Muslims write that "Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation."  Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah, both authors in their own right, sit on the...

  • August 8, 2010

    Sharia Law in Canada and Britain

    The spread of sharia law to the entire world is part of jihad. In Canada and Britain, jihad is advancing.A June 2010 report entitled "Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights" begins with Secretary General of the ...

  • August 7, 2010

    Thanks, Mr. President

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  • August 4, 2010

    Be Careful What You Believe

    I was recently sent an email about a shopkeeper in Houston, Texas who had posted a sign that stated "We will be closed on Friday, September 11, 2009 to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Ali."  The message accompanying the email read ...

  • August 4, 2010

    With Fox News seated up front, how about some real questions?

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  • August 2, 2010

    This Will Make You Sicker

    In addition to the grave medical concerns pertaining to the appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is another issue that speaks to his political perspectives. Berwick has been actively involved with ...

  • August 2, 2010

    Palestinian Corruption and 'Humanitarian Aid'

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  • July 28, 2010

    More Journolist Fabrications

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  • July 27, 2010

    Cartoonists Draw Islamic Death Threats--Again

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  • July 26, 2010

    German city fathers refuse to meet visiting Iranian delegation

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  • July 22, 2010

    Is This Another Teachable Moment for Americans?

    Friends of Barack are active in attempting to break Israel's blockade of munitions sent to Gaza.On June 14, 2010, James Lewis penned a piece "The Gaza Flotilla Ambush: What Did the White House Know?" He wrote that "for decades the netw...

  • July 16, 2010

    Tentacles of Hate

    The Palestinian Authority has long presented terrorists as role models for their children.  Summer camps feature training in the use of grenades, guns and rockets.  PA summer camps are named after terrorists and the children are taught that...

  • July 16, 2010

    In Obama's Own Words

    The pictures and words speak for themselves.  This is a You Tube montage that highlights the 44th President's affinity for Islam. It clearly shows Obama's one-sided allegiance to Islam and his distortions of historical truth.  As time passe...

  • July 12, 2010

    Hezb'allah cell rolled up in ... Tijuana

    As Obama dithers about homeland security and presses on with a lawsuit against Arizona, the terrorists continue to plot this country's destruction.  In a Daily News editorial dated July 11, 2010 there is a report that "Mexican authorities h...

  • July 11, 2010

    Corrupting Hatred

    To the followers of the Reverend, the Imam, and the Minister:If I could meet you personally, this is what I would say.I do not come classified as a member of the third-world community, yet my people have much in common with those in that category. So...

  • July 5, 2010

    Burma and Nuclear Weapons

    A month ago, Burma was back in the news, with U.S. Senator James Webb, Chairman of the East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, abruptly postponing his June 3 visit there -- this after learning of a report...

  • June 30, 2010

    Censors In, Liberty Out

    We are learning that Elena Kagan would be quite comfortable subverting the First Amendment's right to free speech.  In May of this year, activist Nat Hentoff, renowned authority on the First Amendment, sounded the alarm when he wrote that "...

  • June 29, 2010

    Obama's Wonderland Is No Fairy Tale

    As we continue to tumble down the road to economic ruin, security vulnerability, and reduced health care benefits, things become "curiouser and curiouser." While President Obama speedily demands that General McChrystal zoom home to be dismi...

  • June 29, 2010

    The Serial Double-Crosser

    Our 44th president did it again.  He suckered another group into his spider's web, promised them that they would be immune to any adverse results to their respective interests and then Obama turned on them with a pointed viciousness.So it happen...

  • June 22, 2010

    The Oldest Disease

    On January 7, 1939, author E.M. Forster published a piece entitled "Jew-Consciousness" in the New Statesman and Nation. He considered the "Jew mania" of World War I and contemplated the rabid antisemitism then beginning to emerge ...

  • June 12, 2010

    Rosie O'Donnell in All Her Glory

    Is she merely uninformed or interminably stupid? Anti-Semitism from every corner of the world is deafening, and yet Rosie O'Donnell cannot seem to understand the negative connotations of Helen Thomas' latest retort about sending Jews back to Eur...

  • June 9, 2010

    Narcissist in Chief?

    As Charles Krauthammer has pointed out, Obama "has never been overly modest about his own powers." Obama certainly has an inflated sense of his own importance. After all, he declared that history will mark his ascent to the presidency as th...

  • June 5, 2010

    Death Panels and Mom

    My mother was a vibrant, spirited individual who died six months ago in the throes of late-stage Alzheimer's disease. Many years before, she had made it very clear that she did not want "unnecessary" life support systems, and I was fully aw...

  • May 30, 2010

    American Jews and Israel

    As a nightmare scenario of escalating anti-Semitism plays out, commentators struggle to cope with the indifference of so many Jews to the threat. In the June 10, 2010 New York Review of Books, Peter Beinart pens an article entitled "The Failure ...

  • May 27, 2010

    Escalating problem of terrorist infiltration via the southern border

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  • May 26, 2010

    Nazis in Arizona?

    Allusions to Hitler and the Nazis are incessantly and recklessly employed concerning the Arizona immigration law SB1070. The name-callers merely prove, yet again, how a disregard for history leads to hysteria but not to any real solutions to a genuin...

  • May 26, 2010

    Just another day at the UN trying to delegitimize Israel

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  • May 21, 2010

    Calderon's 'Chutzpah'

    Chutzpah is a Hebrew word meaning "insolence", "audacity" and "impertinence". Generally it is used to describe an individual who has overstepped the boundaries of accepted behavior and shows no shame in doing so. So Am...

  • May 2, 2010

    O, Such Sad Deception

    In his book entitled Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer recounts the tragedy of a town whose hopes were abysmally dashed when they discovered that the man they deemed the messiah was, in fact, a fraud. The novel begins with gruesome descriptions o...

  • April 14, 2010

    Frank Rich's Reckless Slander

    A funny thing happened to me after I sent in my annual donations to GMHC and God's Love We Deliver. I was very graphically told by Frank Rich of the New York Times that because I oppose Obama's health care law, I must be homophobic By the way, the af...