According to Fox News, Mel Gibson may have a problem with Jews — he says that they’re responsible for all the wars, they’ve inflated the number of dead in the Holocaust, etc. But Gibson likes one Jewish person a lot.
Category: Politics
Hezbollah’s PR Machine
Clifford May, a former New York Times foreign correspondent writes in National Review, “… give Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, and other Islamist fascists credit: They understand the perverse psychology of their enemies, the infidels. They know how to confuse us, how
Democrats Without Direction
You may be aware that three-term incumbent Joe Lieberman and Edward “Ned” Lamont will vie for the title of Connecticut’s Democrat Senatorial Candidate in that state’s primary next Tuesday. Even though Lieberman was the Democrat’s Vice Presidential candidate in 2000
The Story Behind Social Security
This little story was sent to me from Mark Clower. Neither he nor I can vouch for its accuracy, but it’s interesting reading: Here is a little history on the Social Security Program. Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Politics and Reality
Stephen Colbert recently interviewed Washington DC’s shadow member of Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton. The YouTube web site has the very funny video, especially the part where Colbert argues with Norton about discrimination, sexual harassment, etc.
Middle Eastern Update
Hezbollah is a group of 15,000 well-armed terrorists that are accountable to no one except the rogue nations of Syria and Iran. The concepts of “disproportionate response”, “moral equivalency”, or other inventions of western culture are simply not applicable. You
German Views on the Middle East
An interesting editorial in the German newspaper/site Der Spiegel… Matthias Kuntzel indicates the reasons “Why Israel’s Reaction is Right”. For a European, he highlights some interesting observations and conclusions: In 2003, 59 percent of all Europeans pointed to Israel as
Myths of Moslem Superiority
There appears to be a popular myth that at one time the Arab Moslems contributed greatly to modern culture, science, and technology… well, there is an article in the Brussels Journal that claims otherwise: When the Arab Muslims, a collection
US Congressmen Who Declined to Support Israel
On Thursday the US House of Representatives voted 410 to 8 in favor of a resolution “condemning the recent attacks against the State of Israel, holding terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for such attacks, [and] supporting Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Voinovich Changes His Position on Bolton
You may recall that I had a posting in April about the US Senator from Ohio, George Voinovich. I shared the fact that I would vote against Voinovich (even though he claims to be a Republican) based on his opposition