"Palestine will be free!" chant the protesters. "From the river to the sea. Some says that's a call for genocide -- another holocaust -- elimination of Israel and all Jews. So, should the chant be illegal? The House of ...
I look forward to the day when news organizations start to ban anonymous comments on their Web sites. Maybe that’s the foolish optimist in me, but I want to believe that we will finally admit—to ourselves and ...
Self-evident Truths: For Barack Obama on the Eve of His Inauguration as President of the United States. "¢ Israel has the inalienable right to pursue terrorists in the Gaza Strip and everywhere else they are ...
New York America’s diminished intellectualism has made this interminable election period as boring as a Nat Rothschild Corfu party for respectable folk. Part of the problem is that presidential candidates try ‘to reach ...
To watch the contortions over that New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas is to understand whom it is impermissible to offend in the America of 2008. The cartoon is a caricature of Michelle as an urban terrorist in an ...
The exposure of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as a hoaxster boasting of a nonexistent record of service in the Vietnam War is a splendid example of what is known as the Taranto Principle. Someday the ...
New York. April in the Bagel is as good as it gets. The girls are back in their summer dresses, people are crowding the outdoor cafes, and Central Park is an explosion of greens and pinks. Spring, as the song says, is ...
Within hours of Time magazine's announcement that it had chosen Vladimir Putin as it's "Person of the Year," the GOP's Team America began competing with one another to see who could be the most outraged. Musing ...
The Empire State Building was once the world’s tallest, until the World Trade Center came along. While other buildings elsewhere eventually topped it, the Empire State Building remained the second-tallest ...
I crossed the river last week and went into the heart of darkness. Unlike Conrad’s hero, it took me about 15 minutes by train, and there I was, right in the midst of a city bloated with squalor, oily storefronts, ...
The unilateral declaration of independence by the Kosovo Albanian government on Feb. 17, followed closely by the Bush administration’s enthusiastic endorsement of the breakaway state, has been roundly ...
Politically, Republicans are rudderless. Morale among activists is the lowest it's been since Watergate's nadir. Many conservatives have resigned themselves to the inevitability of Madam President. And barring sundry ...
As someone who originally got engaged in politics because of the Life issue, it might sound strange that I am desperately eager for the issue to be rendered moot. Or at least non-partisan. I am always happy, for instance, ...
Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the Free World, one arrives in the middle of a far more ...
What happened to the Age of Obama? Glancing over the New York Times Book Review Sunday, one finds three of the top four non-fiction best-sellers were written by conservatives—columnist Michelle Malkin, talk-show ...
Members of the Congressional committee investigating the insurance giant A.I.G. can certainly posture. The righteous roar rising from those quarters drove home the vast differences between our elected officials and the ...
Bush saw a terror crisis and spent like there was no tomorrow. Obama sees an economic crisis and spends pretty much the same. Conservatives are rightfully saying “no” to Obama’s “generational ...
Humour-challenged US officials take Iranian utterances at face value, causing them to ratchet up the pressure. Their Israeli counterparts"who live in the region, after all, and a considerable number hail from Iran's ...
In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson asked a penetrating question: What would have happened had Britain remained neutral during World War I? Agree with his answer"history would probably have turned out better"or not, ...
Does the public demand trash talk or not? If truly the public is sick and tired of garbage, or if the public is sick and tired of the way our culture has been destroyed by our toleration of sick and indecent humor, of evil ...
What’s the most popular boys’ name in Britain? If you guessed “Jack,” you’d be right. That’s a pretty common British name—in fact, it’s been the most popular ...
Israel can now safely be called the Bernie Madoff of countries, at it has lied to the world about its intentions, stolen Palestinian lands continuously since 1948, and managed to do all this with American tax payer’s ...
Perhaps the greatest compensation for trading cramped digs in Rome for a spacious house in the U.S. is that I have my beagles back. Susie and Franz-Josef are out back now, sniffing the trails of long-scampered squirrels, ...
The frightfully prosaic rash of sexual indiscretions among Republicans has cast an unflattering light on the Party of traditional marriage, and returns us to Mitt Romney and his fledgling presidential campaign. Alone among ...
