Category: Politics

The most frequent question that my non-Jewish friends ask me is: ‘why are Jews so liberal?’ The question is entirely legitimate since Jews (outside of Israel) are indeed overwhelmingly liberal and disproportionately left of liberal as well. For example, other

Natan Sharansky writes in today’s Wall Street Journal, that President Bush is indeed a dissident that is fired by a deep belief in the universal appeal of freedom, its transformative power, and its critical connection to international peace and stability.  However, he

The so-called War on Terrorism, as defined by President Bush, is having mixed results.  One of the problems appears to be that the war planners have dedicated a major portion of their resources to fight the insurgency in Iraq and have ignored

If you read this blog, you know by now how I feel about former US President, Jimmy Carter…  Michael Reagan writes today about the source of many of our problems:  “…south of our borders we have a nut job running

The Europeans never cease to amaze you with their inability to recognize simple facts (I won’t bore you with the Neville Chamberlain analogy)… A recent article in the Economist notes that “there will be no peace in Palestine until the

In Iraq, American troops no longer try to flee the attackers when ambushed.  Most troops have been instructed to stop and engage the attackers in a decisive battle. Previously, the attackers often got encouraged when American troops sped away from

According to the CIA, China is the world’s second largest economy; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has observed that China is becoming a military superpower; and Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte has testified before Congress that China is becoming

In a hairbrained scheme that was personally approved by then-President Clinton, the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons program.  The allegation, detailed recently in the book

George Will writes an interesting editorial about the confusion over global warming… “Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of ‘extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation.’ Science Digest (February 1973) reported that ‘the world’s climatologists are agreed’ that we must ‘prepare for the