September 12, 2024

Democracy Truly Does Die in Darkness

In February, 2017, the Washington Post adopted its now infamous mission statement: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Was it a coincidence that one of the nation’s most influential newspapers — the paper that broke the Watergate sc...

July 24, 2024

Tampon obsession: Kamala cares more about Gazan women than American women

As I turned to the second page of the Wall Street Journal on Monday, one headline struck me: Feminine-Care Costs Force Tough Choices for Women: More women across America are making a difficult monthly choice: Should they buy menstrual products ...

May 22, 2024

Biden’s Abuse of the Judiciary Has Extended to Israel’s Prime Minister

Every once in a while, there is a seminal article written that elucidates political calculations not obvious on their surface. In particular, foreign policy matters tend to be complicated to the point that most Americans focus little attention on und...

April 26, 2024

Joe Biden Comes to Town

President Biden is attending a fundraiser, hosted by Michael Douglas, Eileen Fischer, and a few other wealthy, liberal elites who live in my town.  The disruption to residents’ lives and local small businesses is intrusive and appalli...

July 16, 2023

God’s Children Are Not for Sale: Why the Left Hates Sound of Freedom

I recently went to see the movie Sound of Freedom. It was the first time I had gone to a movie theater since before Covid and it was well worth the wait for such a superb and important film. I was curious about a number of things including whether, i...

November 21, 2022

Reviewing the Republicans who spoke at the RJC Annual Leadership Meetings this weekend

It is always fun to attend the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership conferences in Las Vegas, but this year was particularly cathartic for those of us distressed over the results of the midterm elections last week.  As someon...

October 12, 2022

Biden: Black votes matter; Jews', not so much

The Biden administration has a new play to garner votes for the midterm elections despite his well deserved abysmal approval ratings and Democrats' failed policies — both of which are a result of the Biden Democrats' (unlike the "M...

August 24, 2022

Note to Liz Cheney: You're No Lincoln

Much has been written about Liz Cheney and her motivations for blowing up her congressional career over a seemingly psychotic obsession with Donald Trump.  But there are aspects to the analyses that are missing the larger point that Cheney ...

April 30, 2022

Why Biden pursues politically suicidal policies

The politically insane plan to divert resources away from the Veterans' Administration to care for illegal aliens is only the latest example of the unpopular policies that have driven Biden's approval ratings into the toilet. But...

August 31, 2021

Chase Bank just canceled General Michael Flynn –UPDATE

UPDATE: Chase Bank does about-face, apologizes for Gen. Flynn credit card cancellation letter, says it 'made an error' There's a new front in the progressive war to turn our nation into a dystopian society ruled by left-wing autocra...

July 25, 2021

Americans can lead the fight against antisemitism

Antisemitism is a unique form of hatred.  It has existed for millennia and manifested itself in the form of slavery, pogroms, torture, banishment, exterminations, terrorism, boycotts, and discrimination of the Jewish people the world over....

April 23, 2021

The Left’s Orwellian Perversion of Language

Lies and propaganda are now the mainstay of leftist communications. A twenty-first century reincarnation of George Orwell’s 1984 Newspeak is one of their primary mechanisms utilized to prevent critical thought and debate while expanding power b...

March 25, 2021

What Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Wrought

At less than 100 days in, Trump-haters have imposed growing disasters on the country. Trump-hating voters cared about one thing and it wasn’t the success of Operation Warp Speed, a strong economy, or peace in the Mideast. Bad Orange Man must go...

March 11, 2021

Democrat Hypocrisy: Capitol Wall for Me, No Southern Border Wall for Thee

Democrat hypocrisy has been on display for years, with recent offenses involving Democrat leaders breaching pandemic rules that apparently apply to the masses but not to the Marie Antoinettes imposing the rules on the rest of us.  There are...

January 10, 2021

Democrat Hypocrisy on Condemning Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Tiresome

As an American Jew who retired after 30 years of practicing law in order to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, including spending the past 15 years working with many Jewish and non-Jewish organizations on these issues, I am disgusted at the hypocr...

November 19, 2020

Biden/Harris Would be a Disaster for the Middle East and American Jews

Exit polls indicate that President Trump received a record-number of Jewish votes this year with 30.5% nationally (up from 24% in 2016) and 43% in Florida helping him win that swing state by a healthy margin. But as a pro-Israel advocate who has s...

November 9, 2020

The True Deplorables

With the manufactured “news” that Pennsylvania and Nevada have been called for Joe Biden by news media, liberals celebrating the supposed victory of the purported 46th president took to the streets in euphoria and revelry. It seems logica...

October 30, 2020

Do Americans Love their Country More than They Hate Trump?

Many NeverTrumps assert that they're voting against Trump, not for Biden. But the reality is that a vote against Trump is a vote for Biden/Harris and their progressive policies.  Biden promised that if he is elected, "I'm gonna...

October 27, 2020

How can any Democrat call Joe Biden the 'moral' candidate with a straight face?

For four years, we have listened to liberals attack Donald Trump for every word uttered, tweet sent, and policy implemented, no matter the substance.  With complete indifference if not outright disdain for every accomplishment from Middle E...

October 16, 2020

Biden/Harris: Muslim American voices matter

On July 20, Joe Biden spoke on video to the Million Muslim Votes Summit during which he promised to "end the Muslim ban on day one; day one."  Biden was referring to the Trump administration's policy, based on nation...

July 3, 2020

Americans have a clear choice in November: Patriotism or peril

A friend sent me a powerful video featuring military personnel from all over the country singing "God Bless the USA."  While I have felt a tremendous sense of patriotism over the past several years in particular — ...

June 26, 2020

Why Are We Letting Democrats Steal from Us?

Democrats' Robin Hood policies of taking from the rich to give to the poor are imbedded in the DNA of party members and loyalists.  From FDR's New Deal to Johnson's Great Society,[i] welfare programs were established to support ...

June 9, 2020

Special conference call today will feature Fox News personalities Deroy Murdock and David Webb

At 1:00 P.M. EDT today, I will be moderating a panel discussion featuring David Webb and Deroy Murdock, who will be discussing the race riots and race relations in the U.S., the Democrat Party's movement to the far left, and the implications of a...

June 7, 2020

D.C. Mayor and Democrats Take a Page Out of the Palestinian Authority's Playbook

In the Palestinian culture, children are taught from birth that Jews and their homeland, the State of Israel, are evildoers to be exterminated.  From the minute they enter pre-school, their teachers, textbooks, and class presentations revol...

March 5, 2020

G-d Is Testing American Jews. They Are Failing.

As I watch American Jews move farther left — and farther away from their Jewish heritage and connection to Israel — I am reminded of the story of the Exodus.  Moses ascended Mount Sinai in order to receive the Ten Commandments....

March 3, 2020

Does America Suffer from an 'Emotional Illness' on Race?

Last Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on "Voter Suppression in Minority Communities: Learning from the Past to Protect Our Future."  The hearing was based on the premise that "today, many ...

January 12, 2020

The Democrat Party's Third Rail: Israel

A version of this column was originally published in the Winter 2020 edition of the Jewish Policy Center’s InFocus magazine The 2020 election is presenting the electorate with Democrats of both the extreme and “moderate” varietie...

December 16, 2019

Adam Schiff is Shameless

Last Thursday afternoon I boarded an Amtrak Acela train from Washington, D.C. to New York. While in D.C., I enjoyed spending time at the Trump International Hotel where people were happy - not just because of the holidays, but because of where they w...

November 12, 2019

Jews and conservatism: A growing relationship

The Tikvah Fund held its third annual Jewish Leadership Conference on Jews and Conservatism this past Sunday in New York City, and it was one of the best conferences I have attended in quite some time.  While the first conference ...

November 11, 2019

No Safe Spaces: What Happens When Common Sense and Values Disappear

The new documentary No Safe Spaces, starring conservative thinker, radio host, and writer Dennis Prager and liberal, comedian, and podcast host Adam Carolla, is a must-see for anyone concerned with the long-term viability of the First Amendment's...

October 16, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock, the End of the World, and Climate Change Hucksters

When I am unable to fall asleep due to the stress of worrying about the state of our country’s politics, rising anti-Semitism, and global conflicts (for instance), I have found a respite allowing me to escape for a brief period – MeTV is ...

August 13, 2019

The evidence is clear: Donald Trump is not a racist

With half the country apparently completely unhinged (that includes all of the Democrat presidential candidates, a seemingly large portion of the Democratic Party more generally, the mainstream media, academia, and much of Hollywood) due to their psy...

August 7, 2019

Rashida Tlaib's bulletproof hypocrisy and hate

Never missing an opportunity to politicize a tragedy, Rashida Tlaib has joined all of the Democratic presidential candidates in spinning the mass shootings of this past weekend.  And while many of the candidates were vile in their accusatio...

July 1, 2019

Democrats are Officially the Party of Derangement

It has been quite a week for the Democrat Party. Actually, it has been quite a decade. It began when, just seven years after Islamic extremists executed the worst attack on U.S. soil killing almost 3,000 Americans, destroying the World Trade Center, ...

March 19, 2019

The blame game of the Israel-hating troika

After eight years of a Barack Obama presidency, we are all used to the Democrats blaming their woes on everyone but themselves.  When they lose elections, it's Russia's fault.  But more often than not, Democrats love to bl...

February 20, 2019

Ilhan Omar's Hateful Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism

Watching the recent fallout from Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest anti-Semitic tweet, in which she claims that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee buys congressmen's support of Israel, several thoughts struck me.  The first was tha...

December 20, 2018

Trump's troop pullout from Syria is a terrible idea

In the wake of President Trump's announcement of a pullout of American troops from Syria, I was curious to see what his stand was on the Iraq pullout.  This article from 2016 is interesting, because it shows his flip-flops. ...

November 7, 2018

Hateful Dems and the longer term future

I'm very fearful for the future of a country that could elect so many hateful and ideologically closed-minded people. Obama at least spoke well and wasn't honest about his plans, so it's understandable why some would vote for him. But the...

October 13, 2018

You Are What You Eat...and Where You Worship

The well known expression "you are what you eat" implies that the food we ingest will impact our minds and bodies.  If we abuse our bodies, we risk impairing our long-term health and well-being.  If we eat healthy, we ex...

August 4, 2018

Rajneeshpuram: A Microcosm of Today’s Democrats?

For those who have not yet watched the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, it is a must-see.  The story of cult leader (AKA the "sex-guru") Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's takeover of a small town in Wasco County, Oregon in t...

July 4, 2018

Illegal Immigrants, Palestinian Refugees, and Their Liberal Cheerleaders: The Startling Similarities

The Democrat, left-wing media, and progressive activists’ current freak-out over what is at least a decade-long crisis on our southern border is not just hypocritical.  Yes, these same individuals taking to the streets in ugly mobs and thr...

June 22, 2018

Charles Krauthammer and me

The death of Charles Krauthammer affected me deeply, for he taught me by word and by example.  This article from four and half years ago explains why.  To my shock and delight, after it was published, he wrote me a personal note o...

July 23, 2017

Larrey Anderson: A Philosopher's Love of Life and Reason

I "met" Larrey Anderson, senior editor of American Thinker, in early November of 2008 just after Barack Obama won his first term as president. I was sick and appalled and sat down and wrote my first American Thinker column. It was a 2600-wo...

September 22, 2016

Did Christie’s ‘Islam Problem’ Lead to the Ahmad Terrorist Attacks?

In a recent column, Bret Stephens recognized that one of the lessons from this past weekend’s terror attacks is that “there is [a]… benefit in the surveillance methods that allowed police in New York and New Jersey to swiftly ident...

March 2, 2016

America is on the Road to Declinistan

In After America, Mark Steyn wrote, “...when you hit the expressway to Declinistan there are few exit ramps.”  We are now approaching the point of no return.  Future generations will attempt to understand how the most exceptiona...

February 15, 2016

Can Trump please explain?

Why on Earth did Donald Trump go after George W. Bush for 9/11 in Saturday’s debate rather than Hillary, whose husband not only allowed al-Qaeda to grow into an organization capable of pulling off 9/11 but who also allowed North Korea to go nuc...

January 19, 2016

Obama Dealing Terror

President Obama began releasing illegal aliens with criminal records from the early days of his presidency and well before the sequester that he used as an excuse for doing so. Despite Obama’s misrepresentation to the American people that these...

January 15, 2016

Obama's response to Iran's aggression: Remain calm; all is well!

In response to Iran's capture and humiliation of innocent American sailors, John Kerry stated, "I want to express my gratitude to Iranian authorities for their cooperation ‎in swiftly resolving this matter."  Granted, he made t...

January 6, 2016

Obama and the Insanity of the Liberal Mind

In his masterpiece, Common Sense, Thomas Paine observed: Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act i...

December 11, 2015

Trump is following 0bama's Script

It’s impossible to get through a day without hearing the name Donald Trump…over and over again.  His name is plastered across the pages of newspapers and magazines.  His speeches and interviews are continuously replayed on tele...

November 29, 2015

Coming to a City Near You: Islamic Terrorism

I often hear arguments in support of bringing in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees with no mention of the words “terrorist,” “Muslim,” “Islam,” “jihad,” or “Paris” by the proponent. It is...

November 11, 2015

American Jews' New Obsession: Transgender Rights

On my way back from David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend in Charleston, I opened up the Post and Courier newspaper to Section D, entitled "Faith & Values."  What struck me was an article on the second page reporting that the Un...

October 2, 2015

Obama's perfect storm to destroy Israel

As the country’s electorate focuses on the Roseburg shootings, three very important items leaked onto the news wires on Thursday that deserve broad, nationwide attention. Sadly, I am not referring to the drip, drip, drip of Hillary’s e...

September 22, 2015

What the Nobel Peace Prize President has Wrought

The former director of the Nobel Institute regrets his decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. Recall this was prior to Obama accomplishing anything other than pulling the wool over the eyes of the Nobel committee and the majori...

July 27, 2015

Grassroots Activism May Very Well Kill the Iran Deal

As one of the organizers of the recently historic Stop Iran Rally in Times Square on July 22nd, I dedicated almost one month of my time to ensure its success. I was honored to work with an unbelievably dedicated group of passionate, selfless individu...

May 30, 2015

Obama's Iran Deal is Good for America: A Debate

On Tuesday evening, I attended a debate in New York City sponsored by Intelligence Squared U.S. focusing on whether or not Obama’s Iran deal is good for the country.  (The podcast is available at the website.) On the pro side of the deb...

April 23, 2015

Are Jews Finally Finding a New Home with the GOP?

Political analysts have been talking quite a bit about a new Gallup poll reflecting declining support of Obama among American Jews.  While 54% of American Jews still support Obama, that number has decreased from 77% in 2009 and 65% in 2013, fall...

April 7, 2015

History repeats itself When Civilized People Ignore its Lessons

In both the months leading up to and the days following last week’s announcement by Obama of his capitulation to the tyrannical Islamist Iranians (aka an outline for a possible deal paving the way for Iran to produce nuclear weapons and fulfill...

March 3, 2015

Obama Poses an Existential Threat to Western Civilization

We are living through historic times – and perilous times. However, the leaders of the Western world are oblivious to the imminence of the dangers as Islamic fundamentalism takes hold on every continent in the world. While the focus since 9/11 ...

February 27, 2015

Obama Brings his Gun to the Fight with Israel

In Philadelphia in 2008, Candidate Obama threatened his political opponents in stating, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” He continued, “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl.” ...

February 19, 2015

Obama administration attacks Egypt and UAE for ISIS raids

Where does one begin to parse the inane and irrational thinking that went into the Obama administration’s public rebuke of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates for attacking the Islamists who beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya? Penta...

February 6, 2015

Whether a Civilization Endures is Determined by How it Confronts Evil

On Monday, I read about a Syrian woman who was accused by ISIS of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning.  The barbarians carried out the punishment until they thought she was dead. She miraculously survived and attempted to flee.  As o...

February 6, 2015

The Democrats' boycott of Netanyahu

On Tuesday, Politico reported that the Democrats in Congress were considering skipping Israeli orime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress in March.  The reason why the speech is controversial is because O...

January 30, 2015

President Obama and 'Naked, Blind Anti-Semitism'

Last week, pro-Palestinian protestors disrupted a New York City Council meeting yelling slogans and brandishing a Palestinian flag. The demonstration was particularly offensive given that it occurred as council members were voting on a resolution com...

January 20, 2015

An American Hero... and Obama

I walked out of the movie American Sniper with a heavy heart. The senseless murder of Chris Kyle at the hands of a fellow veteran is a tragedy. But it is also appalling that the Obama administration chose to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in ...

January 20, 2015

On MLK Day, more Al Sharpton praise from an Obama Cabinet member

When Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, Americans had high hopes that he would be a unifying figure based on his campaign rhetoric – and his skin color.  While he was certainly expected to reach across the aisle and work i...

January 15, 2015

Coming to America: A Terrorist Cell Near You

British Islamist Anjem Choudary made one of the most important and revealing yet little-mentioned statements in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack last week.  The imam tweeted, “Muslims love the Messenger Muhammad more than the...

November 18, 2014

<em>America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder</em> -- A Review

At a recent event in New York City, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Wall Street Journal foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens was introduced to an audience of hundreds. As he introduced Stephens, the MC enthus...

October 23, 2014

Those 'Potty Mouthed Princesses'

It is not very often that I am speechless.  But after watching the video Potty Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism by FCKH8.com [not embedded, but click here if you have the stomach], I was pretty close.  Now, having watched it a c...

October 21, 2014

Metropolitan Opera opens anti-Semitic opera 'The Death of Klinghoffer'

In the face of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s decision to produce The Death of Klinghoffer despite pleas from thousands including Met Opera subscription holders, New Yorkers, clergymen, politicians, journalists, dignitaries and citizens, the...

October 15, 2014

Boots Finally on the Ground...to Fight Global Warming

Of all of President Obama’s failings – and there are too many to count – his abysmal performance as commander-in-chief is the most egregious.  Hillary Clinton’s 3am wake-up call ad was prescient (if not obvious), and yet ...

October 3, 2014

Religion of Peace? Hell No!

Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing, I sent an email to my newsletter distribution list with speculation about the perpetrators being of Muslim descent. One self-proclaimed “moderate” on my list told me that he was “done,...

September 18, 2014

Is Obama Wagging the Ebola Dog?

The anti-war president has finally found a way to wag the dog without upsetting his liberal base and war-weary electorate. Despite the beheading of two Americans, establishment of an Islamic caliphate, direct threats to the U.S. homeland, and the des...

September 10, 2014

Islamophobia? Hell Yes!

On a recent family trip to Santa Monica, an evening walk on the Third Avenue Promenade felt as if we had been dropped into a Middle Eastern country.  90% of the people strolling down the bustling walkways and lounging at the cafes were Muslim. W...

July 17, 2014

Rampant Anti-Semitism Is Flourishing across the World

Sitting in my office almost forty floors above ground level in midtown Manhattan last week, I was astounded to be drawn away from my work by chants of “Free free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free....

July 9, 2014

Obama's Narcissistic Delusions about Peace in the Mideast

Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl recently observed, “The Obama administration has developed a bad habit of founding its Middle East strategies on wishful thinking.”  “Wishful thinking” is kind.  Delusions of g...

June 17, 2014

No Mr. President, <em>You</em> are the 'Serious Threat to Everybody's Future'

At the University of California Irvine’s commencement last Saturday, President Obama took to the teleprompter to announce that climate change deniers are a “fairly serious threat to everybody’s future.” Alas, we are truly scre...

May 9, 2014

Charles C.W. Cooke's Shameful Screed on Holocaust Denial

With much disgust, I discovered that National Review Online has officially mainstreamed Holocaust denial. By publishing Charles C.W. Cooke’s blog that pronounces that it “is a damn shame” that a California school district caved to p...

April 28, 2014

The Three Little Kosher Pigs

It is always amusing to see the look on the faces of fellow American Jews when they discover that I am a Republican. Lacking originality, they typically say, “A Republican Jewish woman? Now that’s an oxymoron!” Well no, not at all. ...

March 24, 2014

Putin's Iran Threat is good for Israel

In a column analyzing Russia’s recent threat to rethink its position on Iran, Walter Russell Mead and his staff at The American Interest postulated, “Linking the Ukraine crisis with the Iran negotiation is an American nightmare; it might ...

January 21, 2014

Obama marks 'National Popcorn Day'

There is almost no need to spell out what is coming your way. Readers already know from the headline what is to follow: another picture of President Obama, this time showing The Lightworker posed with popcorn.  Weasel Zippers spotted the tweet ...

January 15, 2014

Obama, Principles, and the Breakdown of the Family

Last week the Wall Street Journal remembered a fallen Marine known as the "Lion of Fallujah." The heroic Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec kept a notebook compiling various axioms and thoughts, one of which was read at his 2007 memorial service, as it was embl...

January 13, 2014

Who Will Obama Blame for his Failed Iran Policy? The Jews, of Course

As the Iran sanctions bill gains bipartisan and expansive support in the Senate, the Obama White House is in panic mode.  From threatening to veto the legislation to accusing Senators who support the new sanctions bill of pushing for war with Ir...

January 7, 2014

The Insights of Charles Krauthammer

One Sunday night in early November I watched Bret Baier's Special Report in which he interviewed Charles Krauthammer. In responding to a question about his inclusion in his book, Things That Matter, a 2007 column about baseball player Rick Ankeil's f...

January 3, 2014

Hezb'allah Upgrades Missile Threat to Israel

As Obama bungles Syria, the seeds are being planted for a bloody and broad conflict on Israel's borders. Adam Entous, Charles Levinson and Julian E. Barnes of the Wall Street Journal have broken a story citing previously undisclosed US intelligence, ...

September 13, 2013

The Legacy of Iraq: America's Credibility Was Lost Years Ago

How many times will Americans be told that "the legacy of Iraq" has taken its toll on a war-weary country and stymied our ability to project strength and determination in the Mideast generally and military intervention in Syria specifically?  Si...

September 10, 2013

Elections Have Consequences...

Several years ago, a rising politician asked me to write a policy paper on why Israel was a strategic asset to the United States. While the subject matter seemed commonsensical, explaining it to the average American, which was the purpose of the...

July 18, 2013

Obama Fails his People Again

In March, 2011 Eric Holder testified before a congressional committee, feigning outrage at the insinuation that dropping voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panthers was racially motivated. After carefully distinguishing...

July 2, 2013

Jihad in America: The Grand Deception

Steve Emerson and The Investigative Project on Terrorism's documentary Jihad in America:  The Grand Deception is a powerful film that should be shown across America -in high schools, on college campuses, in our houses of worship, and most import...

May 21, 2013

'Let Me Be Clear'

While Obama hit the links for his 123rd round of golf since entering office (Sunday's foursome included Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary and the subject of one of the week's non-scandal scandals), White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer hit the Sunda...

May 17, 2013

Has the Obama Team Finally Lost the Juice?

For those of us who have been writing about the Obama administration from the beginning, the past several days of the news cycle have been a gift from heaven.  Recent headlines include: It's a Special All Scandal Edition Scandal Politics Swee...

May 10, 2013

Is Benghazi Obama's Watergate?

While political pundits and media analysts who live in an alternative universe (also known as the left-wing) scream conspiracy theory from the rooftops, we are witnessing an historic event playing out in the form of the Benghazi hearings. Reminiscent...

April 23, 2013

Can a President Who Has Promised to Stand with the Muslims Protect Americans?

In Obama's Audacity of Hope, he insinuated that he would stand with Muslim Americans should the political winds shift in any ugly direction."  He also asserted in Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack."  T...

April 8, 2013

Cardozo Law School Awards Jimmy Carter in the Shadow of Holocaust

In a recent article, I quoted Professor Richard Landes who, in a very profound and insightful sentence, articulated his theory that American Jews "are subtly engaged in a proxy honor killing of Israel." Prof. Landes was describing the apathetic, prog...

March 7, 2013

A Government to be Feared

With each passing day of President Obama's second term he continues to consolidate power and undermine any notion of conventional democratic governing norms. Not only did Obama make history as the first black president, he made history by winnin...

January 31, 2013

Chuck Hagel, Anti-Semitism, and American Jewish Apathy

"Israel Firster," "Jewish Lobby," "Fifth Column," and "Dual Loyalty" are several of the terms used to describe American Jews who care about Israel's survival in the face of very real and imminently dangerous and existential threats to her long-term v...

January 10, 2013

Flexibility Comes Home to Roost

Political analysts, pundits, journalists, and even some lay people across the globe are questioning Obama's choice of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Hagel's impending nomination has been the subject of radio talk shows, cable news panels, and c...

December 1, 2012

Obama and Abbas Are Destructive to the People They Represent

The disgraceful and immoral Jay Carney once again took to his soapbox and admonished Republicans for their irresponsibility for not caving to Obama's blackmail.  Yes, Obama is blackmailing the Republican Party.  He is doing so in the hopes ...

November 17, 2012

Opening the Gates of Hell

In the face of Israel's latest attempt to protect its citizens, Hamas sent a warning that Israel has "opened the gates of hell."  Put aside Hamas's threats of retaliation and war in response to Israel's targeted assassination of a known terroris...

October 23, 2012

Living with Divisiveness

(See also: The Relationship Legacy of the Obama Cult) "Commie" Sean Penn and "troglodyte" Kid Rock have united to make a "public service film" titled Americans.  The ten-minute video ends with the two former foes riding bikes together as the mes...

October 15, 2012

Sheldon Adelson Understands that Obama is a Threat to Israel's Security

The most recent Jewish scapegoat for the anti-Israel progressive culture is Sheldon Adelson. While perhaps best known as the billionaire chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Adelson is actually one of the world's most philanthropic in...

September 14, 2012

American Jews Face Their Days of Awe

As we enter this holiday season of personal reflection, I find myself pondering several existential questions pertaining to the survival of Israel and, by extension, the Jewish people.  What will American rabbis choose to talk to their congregan...

August 10, 2012

Will Israel Help Re-Elect Obama?

"There's a crisis in the White House.  And to save the election, they'd have to fake a war."  So begins the trailer for the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, in which a political spin-meister and Hollywood producer conjure up a scheme to produce a fa...

August 5, 2012

A New Documentary Exposes the U.N.'s DNA

When I was in grade school, I was given a UNICEF collection box every year with marching orders to solicit donations from family, friends and neighbors. My parents always had me toss the box in the garbage explaining that the United Nations was an an...

July 18, 2012

Lethal terror bombing of Israeli tourists

On the 18th anniversary of Iran's terrorist attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina that killed 85 people, the Islamic Republic of Terrorism has apparently struck again. On Wednesday, a bus about to transport a group of Israeli...

July 15, 2012

Obama's Unserious National Security Policy

President Obama's latest abhorrent pronouncement that the actions of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez have not had "a serious national impact on us" is a strong indication that the electorate should focus long and hard on Obama's incompetence in the f...

June 29, 2012

History in the Making: The Decline of America

While many Americans took pride in electing the first black president of the United States, some of us questioned the wisdom of taking an inexperienced blank slate and elevating him to the most important and powerful position in the world.  That...

June 20, 2012

Obama's Patriotism

Last week, I attended a luncheon hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, at which I sat next to former Navy SEAL, Leif Babin.  Among Leif's numerous and impressive accomplishments is his completion of three tours in Iraq, earning a ...

June 1, 2012

Sybil Hussein Obama?

On the same day that the Polish foreign minister called Obama ignorant and incompetent for referring to a "Polish death camp" during a ceremony intended to honor a Polish war hero, the POTUS substantiated the accusations as he declared before an audi...

April 13, 2012

Race-Baiting in the Era of Obama

On my train ride to work this week, a black man sat near me.  He was listening to his music loud enough for anyone in the vicinity to hear.  As I pointed out to him that he dropped his ticket, I asked him if he would please turn his volume ...

March 28, 2012

The World According to Obama

President Obama recently toured the Korean demilitarized zone and, according to reports, stared disbelievingly into North Korea.  "It is like you are looking across 50 years into a country that has missed 40 years or 50 years of progress," he st...

March 26, 2012

The Empathizer-in-Chief Needs to Do Some Serious Soul-Searching

As a mother, my capacity for empathy does not stop at only those who physically resemble my children.  Sadly, the president, who touts empathy as one of the most important qualifications for a Supreme Court justice, signals  that his capaci...

March 9, 2012

Obama's Political Expediency Is Hurting Our Nation

As a candidate, Barack Obama's devious political machinations were one of his many character flaws available for public scrutiny yet continuously ignored.  For instance, he spoke at the AIPAC Policy Conference in 2008 at which he promised the ov...

March 5, 2012

Breitbart's Legacy: The Vetting of Barack Obama

Beginning today and continuing through Election Day, November 6, 2012, Breitbart.com will be performing the job that the mainstream media has continually refused to do: vetting the president. Today's column on Big Government explains: Prior to his p...

March 3, 2012

Andrew Breitbart and Liberal America

The journalistic community was in shock on Thursday morning with the news of the sudden passing of Andrew Breitbart.  Conservative writers eulogized the brilliant icon who helped build DrudgeReport with Matt Drudge, worked with Arianna Huffingto...

February 17, 2012

Thank you, sir! May I have another?

Every time I open up the Internet I feel my blood pressure rise. News of the latest catastrophic Obama pronouncement, failure of the GOP to produce a strong, viable candidate who can win in November, and distortion of the truly horrific state of the ...

January 22, 2012

Barack Obama: The World's Most Powerful Person

At the end of last year, Forbes Magazine anointed Barack Obama as the most powerful person in the world. In summarizing their reason for choosing Obama, the editors stated, Despite faddish American declinism, the U.S. remains, indisputably, the most ...

January 20, 2012

A GOP Candidate's Bitter Ex-Wife Receives More Coverage Than a Video of Obama Dining with Terrorist-Supporters

As I watch the media circus surrounding Marianne Gingrich's interview regarding her relationship with her ex-husband and GOP candidate, Newt Gingrich, I am once again reminded of the double standard afforded to the Democrats and Barack Obama in parti...

December 8, 2011

The Second Coming of JC: That Would Be Carter, Not Jesus

Comparisons between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter began well before Obama was elected. Analysts and pundits on the right recognized that Obama would amount to the second coming of the Carter presidency and wondered how the electorate could make the s...

December 3, 2011

Gingrich vs. Romney: And the Winner is....

For months I have listened to friends and family share their frustration over the lack of qualified candidates fielded by the GOP.  There is earnestness among conservative voters as they understand the urgency in defeating Barack Obama yet fear ...

November 9, 2011

Female Intuition, Sexual Harassment, and Herman Cain

As the theatrics and accusations surrounding Herman Cain's purported sexual improprieties play out, I have concluded that, if the best that Cain's accusers can come up with is that he made a pass at a female companion, then Cain will continue his upw...

November 3, 2011

Herman Cain's Foreign Policy Muddle

Many Herman Cain supporters view the upcoming election through a narrow prism focused on repairing the economy, and they believe that the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza is just the man to accomplish that feat.  Ironically, these are many of the...

October 19, 2011

Obama and the OWS Protesters

While it is not surprising that Barack Obama has come out in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it is quite disturbing that the president has remained silent as the anti-Semitic protesters' offensive howls grow louder and more consistent. ...

October 5, 2011

Who Will Be the First Victims of Obama's Decision to Lead from Behind?

With the news that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have stolen dozens of surface-to-air missiles from Libya and hidden them at bases in southern Sudan, one cannot help but wonder when and where the first commercial jetliner carrying hundreds of inno...

September 20, 2011

Are suicide rates increasing due to Obama's failed economic policies?

In an affluent New York suburb, community members spent this past weekend mourning the loss of a fifty-three year old resident who took his life. Apparently, the father of three and Harvard Business School graduate became so despondent after recently...

August 31, 2011

Obama Ignores Israel's Daily Hurricanes

The day before Hurricane Irene swept through New York, I received a concerned email from a cousin in Israel asking if we were properly prepared to weather the storm.  I responded that I was not too concerned and thought the media and politicians...

July 12, 2011

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy

This past week, the Obama administration informed Congress that it had approved the sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams Tanks to the government of Egypt. The question of just who is running the government of Egypt was apparently insignificant to the decision-mak...

July 8, 2011

A Commander in Chief in Need of Serious Self-Reflection

I spent a portion of my Fourth of July holiday in a local shopping mall.  It was not my first choice for a day meant for barbeques and fireworks, but as a working mother, national holidays typically serve as errand days for me.  Apparently,...

May 21, 2011

'Obama Sides with the Palestinians' - Again

So I read the headline on Drudge Report just moments after President Obama delivered his second Middle East (and hundredth campaign) speech on Thursday.  Of course, this should be no surprise to anyone paying attention to Obama's Mideast policy ...

May 13, 2011

Yes Mr. President, I Do Want Alligators in My Moat

In yet another one of Obama's highly touted campaign speeches (are there any other type?), the President once again chose to use derisive rhetoric to whip up the masses against those horrible Republicans.  Obama attempted to put the GOP on the d...

May 4, 2011

How Obama Bungled the Aftermath of the OBL Mission

Bret Stephens writing in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday labeled me and people like me who write "right-wing commentary" as "unbecoming" inhalers of "a whiff of sour grapes" during "Obama's Finest Hour" -- the ...

April 26, 2011

The Obamas Silent in the Face of Race Atrocity

For the average human being, it was not possible to watch the video of two black women beating the life out of a defenseless white woman at a McDonald's in Baltimore and not feel complete and total revulsion.  Adding to the horror was the knowle...

April 24, 2011

Where is Moses When We Need Him?

My fifteen year old son recently told me that he decided he is an atheist.  My first reaction was that this must be part of a healthy and normal stage of teenage rebellion against a mother who is a very proud Jew and vociferous supporter of Isra...

April 8, 2011

Terrorism in Their Backyard

Yesterday's bombing by Hamas of a school bus outside Kibbutz Sa'ad in southern Israel was only the latest in an escalation of terror inflicted upon a population of innocent civilians by a hateful people who have proven time and again incapable of bec...

April 6, 2011

Will Ignorance Lead to a Second Obama Term?

There is a wonderful quote that has been making its way around the internet over the past year. It apparently was translated from an article published in the Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung last April and reads as follows:"The danger to ...

March 17, 2011

Congressman Anthony Weiner is the Democrats' Court Jester

I watched in fascination last night as Sean Hannity interviewed Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann and Congressman Anthony Weiner in a segment of his show discussing the budget and the difficulty for Democrats to find areas in which to make cuts.  ...

March 5, 2011

History's Repetitions: "Never Forget"

Earlier this week, the last surviving American World War I veteran died at the ripe old age of 110. Frank Woodruff Buckles enlisted in the Army at just 16 years old and was discharged in 1920. However, while working as a civilian for a shipping compa...

January 11, 2011

Separation of Journalism and Politics

A question that I have been asking for quite some time was brought to the fore once again with the pervasive and obnoxious liberal bias in the so-called news reporting of the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  Why does a...

January 5, 2011

Israel IQ at UCLA with Comedian Mark Schiff

StandWithUs, "an international organization dedicated to bringing peace to the Middle East by educating about Israel and challenging the misinformation that often surrounds the Middle East conflict," has produced a very funny, yet enlighten...

December 7, 2010

Power Corrupts

The Obama administration's actions and policies epitomize the veracity of Lord Acton's famous proposition that "[p]ower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." From the passage of ObamaCare to the offensive TSA screenings...

November 12, 2010

The House Should Curb Obama's Extravagant Lifestyle

Pundits, political analysts, and politicians on both sides of the aisle have offered their recommendation for items which should be placed at the top of the 112th Congress's legislative agenda. Surprisingly, in light of the negative press the Obamas ...

September 26, 2010

The Complacency and Complicity of America's Jews

Recently, I had a conversation with an Israeli cousin who asserted that all the world's Jews should live in Israel. Recognizing that there is no other place in the world in which Jews are truly welcome, he argued that if all the Jews of the Diaspora ...

September 23, 2010

Defeating the Obama Machine

PoliticalFables has an excellent video out entitled "Defeating the Obama Machine."  It includes various quotes from our favorite politicians and political players including George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, An...

August 30, 2010

Obama's Foreign Policy Flies in the Face of Reason

A person does not need to be a military expert or have a Ph.D. in foreign affairs in order to understand the disastrous implications of Obama's foreign policy for America's national security. And while it was certainly clear that Americans were not e...

August 25, 2010

Dhimmis are Dummies

If someone had taken a poll on September 12, 2001 asking Americans if they believed there was any possibility that less than a decade later America would be governed by a president of Muslim descent, with a Muslim middle name, surrounded by Muslim fr...

August 25, 2010

Beware falling into the 'Demonization' trap

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August 20, 2010

What is wrong with Mayor Bloomberg?

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has endorsed Representative Joe Sestak for Senate. Sestak is a controversial candidate for several reasons and it is well known that, unlike his opponent Pat Toomey, Sestak does not support Israel or policy sympathetic ...

August 5, 2010

US To Gaza: A Charade that must be Stopped

Today, USTOGAZA, the organization that is planning to launch a Gaza-bound ship named The Audacity of Hope that is intended to "break the blockade of Gaza," is hosting a fundraising event in New York City. The organization is the brainchild ...

June 19, 2010

The Novel Presidency

"I know there's been a lot of talk around town lately about the value-added tax -- that is something that has worked for some countries. It's something that would be novel -- for the United States." - President Barack ObamaAs Obama pon...

June 1, 2010

The Unwarranted Castigation of Israel

Once again, Israel is at the center of an international crisis with world leaders, the UN, and citizens across the globe who are quick to jump on the Blame Wagon at the first opportunity to condemn the Jewish state.The most recent episode involving I...

May 16, 2010

Comedy Central and Anti-Semitism

Question:  What do Comedy Central and the Palestinian Authority have in common?Answer:  Children’s programming designed to indoctrinate the masses into believing that Israel is a baby-killing, immoral machine.Apparently, Comedy Centra...

May 6, 2010

The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism

In a recent Shabbat sermon, the senior rabbi at one of Baltimore's largest congregations explained why, whether he liked it or not, he felt compelled to talk about Israel. He suggested that due to the voluminous number of e-mails he received discussi...

April 18, 2010

Hope amidst Threat

The Israeli national anthem, which is called "Hatikvah," means "hope" and describes the two-thousand-year-old hope of the Jewish people to be a free and sovereign people in the Land of Israel. Although it was first published as a ...

March 28, 2010

The Obama Zone

The past fifteen months of living under the Obama presidency bring to mind the 1950s television series "The Twilight Zone." Unfortunately, as America and the world watch Obama ignore constitutional limitations that have been in place since ...

March 20, 2010

The Exploitation of Israel's Vulnerability

At the Republican Jewish Coalition's recent leadership conference, President George W. Bush recalled his first official visit to Israel:I was also struck by Israel's vulnerability and convinced that America must always be Israel's closest ally. That ...

March 11, 2010

Obama through the Looking Glass

If there was ever a question as to what President Obama meant when titling his autobiography "The Audacity of Hope," he certainly offered Americans a peek through the looking glass during the televised health care debate two weeks ago. Amer...

February 9, 2010

No More Rock Stars!

Why is it that Americans are so hung up on rock stars, Hollywood celebrities, and anorexic models? Our culture is caught up (and brought up) in the influences of "America's Next Top Model" and "American Idol" hysteria. The obsessi...

February 5, 2010

Do Democrats Lack a Conscience?

If only a White House reporter would ask Barack Obama this one question: "How do you look in the mirror every day?" As a majority of Americans watch in horror at the Democrats consciously driving the country on a collision course with disas...

January 13, 2010

It's Time to Play Ball

In discussing the Obama administration's failure to act on the "bits of information that were available" to prevent the Christmas Day terrorist from boarding the flight to Detroit, National Security Adviser James Jones stated that "[t]...

January 7, 2010

The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Democrats

This past week, I was having lunch at a restaurant in midtown Manhattan when my colleague noticed Al and Tipper Gore dining across the room with another couple. It was a frigid day, with record-breaking temperatures keeping most people indoors, and w...

December 25, 2009

Planting the Seeds

The holidays are likely the busiest time of the year for many people -- and the most stressful. With work deadlines that must be completed by year's end, shopping for our loved ones, remembering the important people who regularly touch our lives, hel...

November 27, 2009

Obama Is an Impediment to the Mideast Peace Process

From the outset of his presidency, Obama foolishly made Israeli settlements the focal point of his administration's admonishments of Israeli policy. Beginning with his refusal to confront Iran on its nuclear weapons program, Obama barked orders at th...

November 21, 2009

Another snub to American Jews

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November 18, 2009

Hit the Reset Button on Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda

With ObamaCare barely passing in the House of Representatives last week, a federal deficit hitting unprecedented levels this past month, and unemployment rates achieving highs not seen in decades, few Americans seem focused on the direction of this a...

November 17, 2009

Previews of Government Run Healthcare

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published guidelines on breast cancer screening on Monday, which completely overturned previous advice by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, a...

October 24, 2009

It's Time for Obama to Get a Clue

If the Obama administration took as much time to focus on the issues of the day as it does to attack its critics, this country might actually be headed in a different direction - the right direction. It is becoming tiresome to open a newspaper, sign ...

October 13, 2009

Credibility for Conservatives

"Credibility is like a baseball diamond in a cornfield. If you build it, they will come." -Dennis MillerObama's descending poll numbers are a reflection of the determination by American citizens that his administration is taking the co...

October 8, 2009

Civil Rights in the Age of Obama

One of my liberal friends looked at me the day after Obama won and gleefully declared, "We finally have our civil rights back!" Perhaps it was the remnants of the bottle of champagne she drank with her husband the night before in celebratio...

October 8, 2009

The Indoctrination Continues with the Help of CNN

Will freedom of thought survive the combination of mass media bias, politicized liberal education, and left-wing liberal organizations infiltrating the country’s previously respected institutions? After watching this video, I fear not. Welcome ...

September 27, 2009

The History Lesson Obama Missed

"The memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil;...the memory of death will serve as a shield against death." - Elie Wiesel,  Nobel Laureate 1986I was watching FoxNews after Obama's UN speech and Dick Morris was the interv...

September 25, 2009

Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail

It has been confirmed. If you do not buy insurance under ObamaCare you may go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, and do not collect $200. And there you have it. It’s as simple as a game of Monopoly. Follow the rules of the “Ch...

September 18, 2009

General Electric: Obama's Halliburton?

The hypocrisy permeating the policy decisions emanating from the Obama White House continues. General Electric will directly benefit from Obama’s decision to renege on a deal to provide Eastern Europe with missile defense systems (the obvious i...

September 11, 2009

Inexperience and Obama's latest Foibles

Obama’s lame response to the Iranian crackdown after the fraudulent election of Ahmadinejad to a second term of dictatorship was dubious at best. Many of us in the blogosphere questioned Obama’s failure to support the Iranian people who p...

September 2, 2009

Republicans are What?! (Updated)

According to Obama’s Green Job’s Czar, Van Jones, Republicans “are a**holes.” And guess what? “Barack Obama is not an asshole.”So there you have it in a nutshell. Barack Obama, the non-asshole wearing the white hat...

September 1, 2009

Indoctrination through Education has Begun

In a recent article that I wrote for AT, I stated that while I feared it imminent, the Obama administration had not yet turned its attention to controlling the public education system. Little did I know that my fear would come to fruition so quickly...

August 25, 2009

The Tin Ears of the Bully-in-Chief and his Comrades in Arms

Two years ago, my 9 year old son was pushed against a wall in the boys' bathroom and told that he better not try out for the football team if he knew "what was good for him." Not surprisingly, my son came home distraught and unsure as to wh...

August 23, 2009

Government Knows Best?

A reflection of the first seven months of the Obama presidency reminds me of the 1950's sitcom Father Knows Best. The sitcom originally debuted as a radio show in 1949 and was entitled Father Knows Best? - ending with a question mark that was later r...

August 20, 2009

The Messiah AKA God's Partner

Barack Obama’s egocentric personality never ceases to amaze me; however, he outdid himself today. On a teleconference with some American rabbis, Obama reportedly said, “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”...

August 19, 2009

Napoleon and Squealer in the White House

I read the various articles and blogs concerning the Obama administration seemingly backing off the public option requirement under proposed healthcare legislation. I was reminded of one particular scene from George Orwell’s Animal Farm in whic...

August 1, 2009

Liberalism and the Dumbing Down of America

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." - William F. Buckley, Jr., Great American ThinkerAs Barack Obama spend...

July 31, 2009

A Green Light to Invade Israel?

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the Obama administration is supporting the implementation of a United Nations doctrine that would approve military action in order to prevent genocide. While not legally required to act, the countries ...

July 14, 2009

Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie and... Obama?

Is nothing sacred to Team Obama? Does the most anti-American president in the country's history have to turn everything we true blooded Americans hold dear into The Obama Show 24/7? Wasn't Chevrolet enough? Does the POTUS who built an indoor basketba...

July 12, 2009

Alan Dershowitz, American Jews, and the Religion of Liberalism

At a critical juncture in the formation of this country’s Mideast policy, Alan Dershowitz has taken a public stand portraying Obama as a friend of Israel. Dershowitz recently stated in Frontpage Magazine that he “will continue to give Pre...

July 2, 2009

Dershowitz's Weak Analysis of Obama's Support for Israel (updated)

Against the background of increasing world-wide anti -Semitism, Alan Dershowitz has been a helpful advocate for Israel, particularly given the paucity of Israeli support from the left. His piece in today's Wall Street Journal, however, falls far shor...

June 30, 2009

Obama's Attraction to Human Rights Violators

"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." - Barack Obama's Inaugur...

June 30, 2009

Monopolizing media

Thousands of Venezuelans over the weekend protested the possible shut down of a television station critical of the Chavez government. As I read this article describing the situation there, I was struck by certain disturbing parallels with the situati...

June 9, 2009

Who Has Lost Their Way?

In the first five months of his presidency, Obama has traveled the world apologizing for the transgressions of America committed by the 43 previous administrations.  He has used terms such as we "went off course," "lost our way,...

June 4, 2009

The Nature of the Scorpions in the Mideast

As I read the news and analysis surrounding Obama's recent meetings with the Israeli Prime Minister and Palestinian Authority President, I am reminded of the insights of Si Frumkin, a Holocaust survivor who recently passed away.Mr. Frumkin wrote an a...

May 30, 2009

Patriotism in the Age of Obama

During the presidential campaign, many citizens (and potential voters) took offense to the fact that candidate Obama refused to wear a US flag pin on his lapel as had become customary for many politicians after 9/11. Upon winning the nomination of th...

May 29, 2009

Can Holocaust Deniers Be Partners in Peace?

I spent the past week reading the novel Night by Elie Wiesel with my 7th grade son. Mr. Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who chronicled his experience as a Jewish teenager who barely survived the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald d...

May 25, 2009

Land of the Free Because of the Brave

I recently met a Jewish man who was born in New York but has been living in Israel and raising his family there for most of his adult life. He has dual citizenship, while his seven year old son is an Israeli citizen. When I noted that he had some tim...

April 29, 2009

How to Lose a Friend in 100 Days

Israeli strategy is all too often constructed, if not dictated, by American foreign policy and in particular, the American President. How then could American Jews risk the survival of the State of Israel on a man who they knew befriended and listened...

April 9, 2009

A Lesson from our Friends the Israelis

While driving through the West Bank on my family's recent trip to Israel, our tour guide shared an interesting story that helps explain the core issue in the struggle for peace in the Middle East -- and in the rest of the world. Our Israeli tour guid...

April 5, 2009

A Country under Siege

"This whole country is a big army base." -- Photographer, Captain in Special Forces of the Army, Israeli citizen.Imagine living in the State of New Jersey and being surrounded in all directions by enemies desiring your destruction. Ima...

March 12, 2009

The Other Right to Choose

I was standing in the elevator heading up to my law office last week when I glanced up at the nifty television screen. The screen allows people on the elevator to avoid eye contact with their colleagues -- and to watch the latest plunge in the Dow Jo...

February 17, 2009

The Audacity of the Obamas

Who would have thought that a CEO position would be tiring? And not just any CEO but the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the Commander in Chief and the Messiah. Apparently Barack Obama had no idea that all of that hard w...

February 14, 2009

Promises Are Meant to be Broken

In these first few weeks of Obama’s reign, our fearless leader has kept so many of his campaign promises that no one can argue Obama is not a man of his word. From shutting down Gitmo and ending the torture of terrorists whose sole purpose in l...

February 13, 2009

Obama's Letter to Ahmadinejad

SatireDear Mahmoud,I won! (I just love saying that.) And as promised throughout my historic campaign, I am now reaching out to you Mahmoud, Holocaust denier, funder of terrorism, despotic ruler of Iran. This symbolic gesture of my respect is just the...

February 10, 2009

Cha Cha Change

Two items struck me today in the Wall Street Journal. In response to a comment that Obama made in January regarding the need for action by the government in order to jumpstart the economy, the Cato Institute ran a full page ad which reads as follows:...

February 10, 2009

Schumer's Arrogance

As the Senate voted 61-37 (thank you Senators Snowe, Collins, and Spector) to pass the porkulus bill earlier today, Senator Chuck Schumer gloated:And let me say this: To all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, por...

February 9, 2009

The 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition

Our Congress is scheduled today to hand itself a trillion dollars for spending on porkbarrel earmarks and socialist programs. According to a Rasmussen poll , 62% of America’s citizens do not favor the porkulus bailout bill. To help make th...

February 7, 2009

Pakistan Releases Abdul Qadeer Khan

For the terrorists the world over, this week was one celebration. In Pakistan, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who helped develop Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, was freed from house arrest. Khan admitted to leaking atomic secrets to ...

February 6, 2009

Biden and his Overwhelming Optimism

Our Veep has done it again. He must be the most limber 66 year old around. Somehow he is able to constantly keep his foot in his mouth. Today’s pronouncement was released by Congressional Quarterly.  Biden is quoted telling House Democrat...

February 5, 2009

The Road to Obama's Socialism

This video clip, from Glenn Beck’s FoxNews show aired Wednesday, is a must see. Obama has put the fear of God in the 46% of Americans that knew better than to cast a vote for a Saul Alinsky/Frank Marshall Davis trained socialist. Here’s ...

February 3, 2009

Is Ignorance a Prerequisite for Acting?

I had hoped that the election of the One would cause Hollywood liberals such as Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and the rest of the American traitors to settle down for awhile and go back to the stage where they belong. Not unlike the empty h...

January 23, 2009

Life in the Russian Underground

Underground, a Memoir by L.D. AndersonAgainst a background of raging contentiousness -- with liberals hating conservatives, Muslims hating Jews, and an otherwise endless list of ideologically incompatible segments of society in seemingly constant con...

January 16, 2009

The Cancer known as Anti-Semitism

The escalating conflict between Hamas and Israel has served to highlight the disturbing prevalence of antisemitism throughout the world. Attacks on Jewish interests across the globe in the form of physical violence and hate rallies are occurring regu...

January 9, 2009

Respect for Life Begins at Home

"We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."  - Golda Meir, 1957While on a recent vacation, my thirteen-year-old son stepped onto the railing of a bridge and prepared to bungee jump into a 2...

December 10, 2008

It's Time for Obama to Lead by Example

I opened the Drudge Report several nights ago to a blaring headline reporting that Barack Obama would be purchasing a $30,000 ring for his wife Michelle. Since that report, Obama's handlers have denied the rumor; however, I still wonder where and how...

December 7, 2008

What We Have to Fear

During the election campaign and several months prior to the downward spiral in the economy, I entered into an email exchange with a relative who supported Obama. In responding to concerns that I raised regarding an Obama administration's support of ...

December 5, 2008

Wisdom

Photographer and filmmaker, Andrew Zuckerman, has published a book entitled Wisdom. The book includes photographs and quotes from various luminaries who have made their mark on the world. A brief summary and film are available on the Internet and wel...

November 26, 2008

The man who should be Treasury Secretary

While we watch the country's top economists flounder to and fro in their various stabs at fixing the troubled economy, one has to wonder where they were two years ago when perhaps steps could have been taken to avoid the turmoil which we are now faci...

November 22, 2008

Time to Wake Up

As the Obama transition begins to unfold, the public is starting to get a look at what Barack Obama really means when he talks about the "Audacity of Hope." Since this was the theme on which he campaigned, it's worth taking a look at the re...

November 20, 2008

Obama is a roll of the dice on Israel

To many American Jews, the future survival of the State of Israel was a major voting issue in this past presidential election. While both candidates pledged unconditional support of the State of Israel, Jewish voters pinned their blind hope for that ...

November 13, 2008

How the voters bought into Obama

"And you may ask yourselfAm I right?...am I wrong?And you may tell yourselfMy god!...what have I done?"  - Once in a Lifetime     Talking HeadsAs the end of this never ending presidential campaign approached, I kept...