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Here is what I wrote a few years ago when the Israelis struck a deal with the Palestinians which called for Israel to release 199 Palestinian prisoners in return for two dead Israeli soldiers: Such deals reflect the value Israeli leaders place on the lives of Israelis relative to Palestinians that is simply untenable. After all,… Read more.
Nothing demonstrates what a double-edged sword Twitter can be quite like the spectacle Demi and Ashton have made of themselves by exposing every nook and cranny of their daily lives to the millions of twits who follow them. They clearly should have known that when things go bad (as was inevitable), those millions of followers would feel… Read more.
Just watched, in-flight, a press conference by Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, during which they laid out a chilling and admittedly thrilling (foiled) plot by senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (the Quds Force) to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States and bomb both the Saudi and Israeli Embassies.… Read more.
Few things political have given me more perverse pleasure in recent years than commenting on the way Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez kept thumbing his nose at U.S. President George W. Bush. Remember how he began his address before the UN General Assembly in 2006? The Devil came here yesterday. [He crosses himself, then clasps his… Read more.
Chris Christie claimed during his bloviating press conference on Tuesday that he decided not to run for the Republican presidential nomination because he did not want to pull a Palin and abandon his job as governor less than two years into his first term. But every political insider knows the real reason is that Christie faced the simple fact… Read more.
On January 30, 2010, in a tongue-in-cheek commentary entitled Technology is God. Jobs is Moses. And iPad is His 4th Commandment, I wrote the following: Technology’s Commandments … (according to Apple): * Thou shall buy a Mac * Thou shall buy an iPod * Thou shall buy an iPhone * Thou shall buy an iPad…… Read more.
Think what you will of Sarah Palin, but she made a really good first impression on the national stage: remember her VP-nomination speech in 2008? Of course, she’s been such an unmitigated embarrassment since then that Republicans can be forgiven for thinking that speech was just a political wet dream. Which makes watching her flirtation… Read more.
The schadenfreude is palpable among those who think [the 2008 financial crisis] heralds the belated comeuppance of rich investment bankers who have been living easy on Wall Street for far too long—primarily by ‘racking up big profits and then sticking it to the taxpayer when things go sour’. And even though some glee over their… Read more.
It would be an understatement to say that I became indignant when someone posed this question to me yesterday during a water-cooler chat with three colleagues. Like everyone else we were gabbing about the release of Amanda Knox. And, trust me, it was clear that he asked it more in disdain than in jest. I ignored… Read more.
[Author’s Note: On the odd occasion interest in one of my commentaries is such that my webmaster prevails upon me to run it for two-consecutive days. It will probably come as no surprise to any of you that this is one of those occasions. The commentary below was originally published yesterday, Tuesday, at 5:28 am.] [A]nti-Americanism was… Read more.
