
I write this while American unmanned flights and 18 American "specialists" are looking for those 200 unfortunate girls abducted by Boko Haram, a group our very own Hillary ...
Like many pundits opining upon French economist Thomas Piketty's new book about how the rich always get richer and something has to be done about it, Capital in the Twenty-First ...
Back in 1961 a CIA agent and I approached Thomas Lejus, who won the 1959 boys" singles championship for the Soviet Union at Wimbledon. We took him to Café Royal, where ...
Even his homespun-sounding name"Cliven Bundy"hints that he is part of a dying breed. Reputed to be the “last rancher in South Nevada,” he locked horns with the ...
Patriotic effusions, whosever they may be, seldom please citizens of other nations, because they are generally so self-congratulatory; and self-congratulation, which is no doubt ...
Young Jewish Man: "Is there a proper blessing for the Czar?" Rabbi: "A blessing for the Czar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Czar… far away from ...
One of life’s safest bets is that following a visit by a Japanese premier to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors the nation’s war dead, a lot of Chinese mega-crooks and ...
By the time August rolls around there will be hundreds of books, thousands of articles, and millions of words spoken by mostly pompous people about who was responsible for ...
During these holidays we should take a second and send our best wishes to the neocons, poor dears, who are having a bad time during this holy season because their plans have gone ...
When the kind-faced mocha Yoda named Nelson Mandela passed into the great beyond last week, the world joined hands like one big giant Coca-Cola commercial to canonize and lionize ...
Here's a funny coincidence. Just as Netanyahu is hyperventilating against the interim deal Uncle Sam has struck with Iran in Geneva, a poster campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal ...
There is no doubt in my mind that we wish our destruction. What else could it be? An Elders of Zion plot? Hardly. They would be among the first to go down, although unlike us, ...
I estimate that a crowd of 1,400,000 gathered in Paris on May 26 for a rally in favor of traditional families and against France’s newly enacted legal extension of civil ...
"We don"t need another hero," sang Tina Turner in an otherwise forgettable Mad Max franchise outing. The 1985 song was a hit for reasons I"ll never fathom. Like ...
I write this during the weekend that finally saw the end of those two dreadful Chechens who were described by many newspapers"starting with the Times, of course"as typical ...
On the brilliant summer's morning of June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a technical research ship lying in international waters about 25 miles north of the Sinai Peninsula, was ...