Millions of voters braved the threat of bombs and bullets to participate in yesterday’s Parliamentary elections in Iraq. As usual, the terrorists tried to intimidate voters but again as usual, the sorry few cowards could not intimidate the courageous majority. What a triumph for democracy.
In the election’s aftermath, Mithal …
Oh, what a night–and what an Olympic season, indeed–for our neighbor to the North!
Tonight the 2010 Winter Olympics ended. Canada squeaked past the U.S. to win in men’s ice hockey, with Pittsburgh Penguins team captain Sidney Crosby scoring the winning goal.
Since Crosby has brought his great talent to Pittsburgh over the past several years, we are inclined …
My brilliant and beautiful writing partner and friend Jennifer Ginsberg is scheduled to appear tomorrow (Wed. February 24) night on the TV show EXTRA as an addiction expert discussing Charlie Sheen.
In addition to being an author, Jennifer is a clinical social worker and expert in addiction who has worked as …
Tonight on the Factor, Bill O’Reilly put forward an interesting, sobering argument regarding the classification of President Obama as a socialist by some conservatives.
“When you have a country starting to define a sitting President as a socialist, is that working? Remember how the far left defined President Bush, as a …
Today it was reported that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) acknowledges “the existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.” Although that’s hardly plain English, a close examination of the statement suggests that the IAEA is saying that, …
Last week at UC Irvine, a large group of extremist students repeatedly shouted down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. You can watch a video of this debacle here.
When appeals to the values of liberal education, free speech, and even threats of expulsion failed to quiet the disruption, Ambassador Oren appealed …
Late last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka have done nothing to investigate the incident.
Choudhury, who faces prosecution by his government on charges of “blasphemy, treason, …
Granted, he’s no Ph.D. But then again, he calls ‘em like he sees ‘em and is not influenced by partisan politics or ego. Who knows what the future will bring, but with a severe snowstorm on its way to New York City this weekend, we are battening down the hatches …
Last week the author J.D. Salinger died at age 91. I hesitate to eulogize him for fear, as Salinger once told Elia Kazan when the latter asked for permission to produce a play version of Salinger’s masterpiece “The Catcher in the Rye,” that “Holden wouldn’t like it.”…
President Obama’s self-imposed January 20th deadline for the closing of the U.S. Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has come and gone. Although the President is taking heat from the left for this action (or lack thereof), it seems to me one of his wiser moves (non-moves?) of late. After all, he does not want …