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Maybe Borat Should Interview Christiane
November 7, 2007
Last month in The Jerusalem Post, Jay Tcath, executive director of the Chicago Jewish Community Relations Council, described how he was manipulated into participating in Christiane Amanpour’s “God’s Warriors,” a documentary...
Bringing People Together, One Snack at a Time
November 2, 2007
October 31 2007
If people from different backgrounds can find common ground, according to Daniel Lubetzky, it’s food – and the desire to prosper.
The founder of PeaceWorks, a food and condiment company, Lubetzky, 38, has promoted over...
Stern Warning
October 18, 2007
In June, I wrote a story for the New York Sun of which I am particularly proud. I covered a talk by Dr. Jessica Stern, a Harvard terrorism expert, at a conference of the EastWest Institute, a Manhattan think tank. The subject of the lecture...
Fox and Friends
October 7, 2007
Hello Fox viewers and other readers. Some of you may have seen attorney and filmmaker Brooke Goldstein on “Fox and Friends” this morning.
I had the opportunity to interview Ms. Goldstein last summer for The New York Sun about...
‘I Don’t Know What I Can Give This City, But I’ll Do My Best’
October 3, 2007
October 3rd 2007
It’s Wednesday afternoon, and Shadin Hossain is surrounded by people. A friend named Joe runs in to ask if anyone wants coffee.
Alam, Hossain’s brother and his co-manager of Galleria – an art and framing store in...
McCain in Manhattan This Morning: Defeatism Will Not Buy Peace in Our Time
September 27, 2007
Just returned from a Hudson Institute briefing at The Four Seasons restaurant this morning given by John McCain. He seems a little tired, and who can blame him? The man is 71, has survived torture at the hands of the Viet Cong and, worse...
Bollinger: No Badass, but not Bad as, He Might Have Been
September 24, 2007
It’s never wise to debate a nut job, especially a vicious one. The very act of debate implies there is something to be discussed, some shred of basis to the attacker’s position which, if in fact there is none, gives that unreasonable and...
A Smart Cop
September 24, 2007
You gotta love New Yorkers. Tonight on the corner of 46th and Second Avenue, I saw a bunch of roadbloacks and cops. Knowing I was near the UN, I asked one young cop, “So officer, what’s going on tonight? You guys getting ready for that...
Go Steelers: One for the polydactyl thumb in 2008!
September 23, 2007
Go Steelers! The Steelers just beat the San Francisco 49ers by 37 to 16. They are now 3-0.
“They and the New England Patriots seem to be the class of the AFC, and the Steelers haven’t been accused of cheating,” according to James...
Go Steelers!
September 23, 2007
Go Steelers! So far the Steelers are 2 and 0. They haven’t played the best teams, but they “totally blew out” Cleveland and Buffalo, according to James Taranto. “I just hope they win by less than 9, because I have the 49ers in the...