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Easily Manipulated People
October 21, 2015
With the recent news from Israel, I can’t help but think about how easily manipulated some Palestinians are. And they’re not the only ones.
Most Palestinians are indoctrinated from childhood to hate Israelis and all Jews,...
Ben Carson Point Was on Target
October 12, 2015
Last week, according to The New York Times, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson suggested the Holocaust would have been “greatly diminished if German Jews had been armed with guns.”
Actually, after watching the tape...
South Sudanese Women’s Plea to Sudan’s Leaders: Stop the Violence
October 5, 2015
When the Elephant Fights, the Grass is the One That Suffers: South Sudanese Women Plead for Leaders to Stop the Carnage
Last Saturday Riek Machar, South Sudan’s former vice president, addressed a group of South Sudanese-Americans at...
Rubio strikes back
September 25, 2015
In the aftermath of the second Republican debate last Wednesday, Carly Fiorina and and Ben Carson have gained ground in the polls, while Donald Trump has fallen a bit. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have also gained ground, though less...
Against the Will of the People
September 11, 2015
It looks as if President Obama, and the Democrats he has pressured into going along with it, are likely to override the will of the American people and push through Congress a deal with the Iranian regime, arguably this country’s worst...
Will Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush Put The Donald in his Place?
September 1, 2015
Today brings the news that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has finally taken a swing back at Donald Trump for the various insults Trump has thrown his way, including referring to him as “low energy.” Bush shot back this week with a...
Can Anything Tender Survive on Tinder?
August 18, 2015
There’s a very good new piece in September’s Vanity Fair magazine about the collision of “hookup culture” with dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Happn, and how this technological explosion is affecting...
The Real War on Women
August 16, 2015
by Heather Robinson
Terrible and distressing information has emerged about the fate of aid worker Kayla Mueller, an American woman who was kidnapped in Syria by ISIS after she went there to help provide humanitarian aid, and who died in February of this...
Donald Trump: America’s Putin?
August 8, 2015
By now most of America has seen or heard about Donald Trump’s theatrics in the first Republican debate Thursday night, from his refusal to pledge he won’t run as an Independent to his Rosie O’Donnell crack in response to...
Obama, in Africa, Echoed NYC Activist’s Plea
August 2, 2015
On his trip to Africa last week, President Obama called upon combatants in South Sudan’s bloody civil war to halt their violence. In demanding that South Sudanese leaders cease stoking the bloodshed that has claimed 70,000 lives in...