Right: Father Jacques Hamel, at his church in St-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Rouen, Normandy. When priests have their throats slit while celebrating Mass, no one is safe in France. Father Jacques Hamel was murdered because the French security services … [Read more...] about Father Hamel Didn’t Have to Die
2016
The Coming Clash with China*
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the fall of 2011 used the buzz word "pivot” three times to announce a major shift in the Obama foreign policy, putting a major emphasis on South and East Asia. But the reality – as detailed in a report from … [Read more...] about The Coming Clash with China*
How To Stop The Killing
Foreward: Merely a week after addressing the murderous attack on police officers in Dallas, Tx. President Obama was condemning a similar killing in Baton Rouge, La. The attacks on the police In both instances were unprovoked and pre-mediated. Today, … [Read more...] about How To Stop The Killing
Newspeak II*
George Orwell, the brilliant political writer and philosopher of the 1950s, saw the possibility we might drift into a seductive totalitarian society. Orwell wrote that it would be with the help of a new language; “Newspeak” he called it. That … [Read more...] about Newspeak II*
July 4th, 1941- July 4th, 2016
In his radio address to the nation on July 4, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt acknowledged the growing global threat to human freedom and to democracy. He spoke of the new tyrannies that have "been making such headway that the fundamentals … [Read more...] about July 4th, 1941- July 4th, 2016
Free Speech, Libel Tourism and the Little Sabra Who Could*
How a feisty Israeli-American scholar faced down a Saudi billionaire banker and an arrogant British judge-and strengthened free speech rights in the process. I first heard of Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld in the spring of 2005. A New York-based, Israeli-born … [Read more...] about Free Speech, Libel Tourism and the Little Sabra Who Could*
Special Relationship II*
Back in 1887 the famous poet and storyteller Oscar Wilde quipped: ‘We [English] have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. We got another example of this malediction in the blah-blah-blah which has attended … [Read more...] about Special Relationship II*
The Emperor’s Iranian Clothes
The unfolding misrepresentations of Obama Administration’s “deal” with Iran, suggest that either the President or the Iranians or both, have been avid readers of Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Emperor’s New Clothes." As in Andersen’s tale, the vain … [Read more...] about The Emperor’s Iranian Clothes
US Powerless as “Europe” Collapses*
The British vote in midweek looks more and more like endorsing withdrawal from the European Union. But the process looks increasingly messy. The U.S., whose sponsorship of a united Europe has played a huge role in the past six decades, now appears … [Read more...] about US Powerless as “Europe” Collapses*
Mr. Obama’s Conscience*
Left: President Obama delivered the remarks after a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida left more than 100 people dead and wounded. June 12, 2016. (YouTube) The schizophrenic nature of the Obama Administration continues to run … [Read more...] about Mr. Obama’s Conscience*