Here’s to your name being written in the Book of Life for this coming New Year! You have until Yom Kippur, 10 days from now, to seal the deal. May you be inscribed! Read more.
Happy Rosh Hashanah
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 7:18 AM
Archives for 2015
Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi Courting Totalitarian Power at the Expense of Democratic Principles
Monday, September 14, 2015 at 10:01 AM
It’s arguable that Nelson Mandela of South Africa was the only political leader who commanded more universal admiration and respect over the past 50 years than Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar. Of course, they seemed bonded by an uncompromising commitment to democratic principles, which they honored by spending 27 and 15 years as political prisoners,… Read more.
Serena Gets Cold Feet on Center Court!
Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 8:44 AM
During the earlier rounds of this US Open, players seemed to be bowing out to make Serena’s ascension to the throne of Women’s Tennis as easy as possible. Everything seemed set for her – not only to become the first woman to win a calendar Grand Slam since Steffi Graf did in 1988, but also to… Read more.
Homo Naledi: Desecrating Ancient Graves in the Name of Discovery…?
Friday, September 11, 2015 at 4:37 PM
The guardians of Western civilization are hailing the desecration of ancient graves in South Africa with as much passion as they’ve been damning the demolition of ancient ruins in Syria. The team is calling this new species of human relative ‘Homo naledi,’ and they say it appears to have buried its dead — a behavior scientists… Read more.
Remembering 9/11: a Moment of Silence Will Do
Friday, September 11, 2015 at 7:35 AM
I applaud NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg for decreeing this week that, henceforth, the area where the twin towers were destroyed shall no longer be called ‘Ground Zero.’ Instead, it shall revert to its original name, The World Trade Center. But I urge him to decree also that, henceforth, the city shall no longer mark this… Read more.
Hail, Marx! Capitalist and Communist Economies Now Indistinguishable
Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 7:50 AM
Little is more hypocritical in public life than American capitalists championing the virtues of free markets, while depending on the government to ensure (i.e., privatize) their profits and insure (i.e., socialize) their losses. Far worse though is that the government actually sanctions this hypocrisy, primarily by having the Federal Reserve prop up the U.S. economy with monetary… Read more.
Re NFL: God Has Forsaken Tim Tebow. Hallelujah!
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:37 AM
The Philadelphia Eagles are a no-go on Tim Tebow… USA Today blames the cut on Tebow’s inconsistent performance in the preseason, despite his much-ballyhooed reworked throwing motion. The former Heisman Trophy winner and 2010 first-round draft last appeared on an NFL roster in 2013, when the Patriots signed, then cut him – also in the preseason.… Read more.
Europe’s Migration Crisis: Sowing Seeds of Unintended but All Too Foreseeable Consequences
Monday, September 7, 2015 at 8:04 PM
History is replete with great migrations. Notably, in modern times, they have included: Blacks from the rural South to the urban North/West in the United States (1915-60) Jews from Europe to Palestine (1931-39) Muslims from East to West and Hindus and Sikhs from West to East in the Punjab (1947) Cubans from Mariel to Florida… Read more.
Earth to Putin: He-Man Stunts Make You Look Stupid, not Strong
Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 8:28 AM
Yes folks, he’s at it again…. Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft Tuesday to check out an ancient sunken ship found recently in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea — the peninsula annexed by Russia last year from Ukraine… On previous trips deep underwater, Putin has explored the Gulf of Finland… Read more.
Media Frenzy Over Hillary’s E-mails Missing the Point
Friday, August 21, 2015 at 11:54 AM
For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids… Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include… Read more.