I have a question for the New York Times. On Wednesday, the Times ran a lead editorial titled “Israel\’s Unworkable Demands on Iran”, in which it attacked Israel\’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for criticizing the “deal” cooked up by President Obama and Secretary Of State Kerry – a “deal” which, in Mr. Netanyahu\’s view...
I hope, by now, that readers of this blog know I do not like using profanities and, other than when I am quoting someone else, you rarely see them here. Be forewarned that this blog is an exception. Today\’s quote comes to us from zubeidat tsarnaeva, the mother of convicted murderer dzhokhar tsarnaev – who deliberately blew up hundreds of innocent spectators at...
Excellent column today by Deroy Murdock, showing how poorly Black citizens have fared under President Barack Obama. You can read it by clicking here, and I urge you to do so. But I thought I\’d post the last four paragraphs, because – subject, of course to what happens in his final 21 months in office – they so well sum up the Obama legacy as it now...
Today\’s quote comes to us from Iran\’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Speaking of the “deal” cooked up by Barack Obama and John Kerry, he said this: “The White House put out a statement just a few hours after our negotiators finished their talks…this statement, which they called a \’fact sheet\’, was wrong on most of the...
Interesting. According to Hunter Walker at businessinsider.com, Hillary Clinton has decided – pretty suddenly, it seems – to announce her candidacy for President this weekend. Could it have anything to do with the last several polls, most recently the newly-released Quinnipiac poll, which show her tumbling in trial runs versus various Republicans? And that her favorability...
This for anyone who has deluded him/herself into believing that Barack Obama gives a damn about Israel — but especially for the “Lost Tribers” who, with increasing desperation, try to rationalize supporting Israel and supporting Obama anyway. First, we have a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu, during his speech to the United Nations on September 27, 2012, using a “bomb”...
m. marc kelly is a Superior Court Judge in Orange County, California. And every day he sits on the bench is an affront to decency. From James Nye\’s article for London\’s Daily mail: A California judge has reduced a child rapist\’s mandatory 25-year sentence down to only 10 – saying anything longer would be \’cruel and unusual punishment\’. Superior...
Let me start with the fact that, barring someone even worse on the Democrat side, I do not intend to vote for Rand Paul (please, God, don\’t stick me with a Hillary/Rand contest). Forgetting his stands on issues (I agree with some, disagree with others), Rand Paul is a first term senator with no executive experience and no foreign policy experience – a set of...
To many of us – certainly to me – the Iran “deal” looks horrible now. But what will it look like years from now? Larry Elder, the always-worth-reading syndicated columnist has some thoughts on this. Here is the beginning of his latest commentary: Barack Obama is a young man. By the time he leaves office, he will be in his mid-50s. Based on life expectancy, he...
This is the first of what will no doubt be a good many blogs about the killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina by Police Officer Michael T. Slager. Let me start with the most important point of all: that we do not yet know all the circumstances of this case. We have not heard Officer Slager\’s side, we have not seen the video angle provided by his patrol...
Everyone knows that most people support abortion. Yeah, some people don\’t want it after 20 or 24 weeks, but they\’re mostly those rightwingers, and who cares what they think anyway. A woman\’s right to choose is a woman\’s right to choose, and that is inviolable. Well, not exactly. Actually, “everyone knows this” because, despite massive...
As you of course know, Benjamin Netanyahu\’s consistency regarding a two-state solution has come into question. With that in mind, I thought you might be interested in this clip from January 17th, 1988 – 27 years ago– when the young Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations – fella named Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked about his country\’s willingness to engage in...
dzhokhar tsarnaev, the sack of crap terrorist who, with his brother, killed and maimed so many at the Boston Marathon, has been found guilty on all 30 counts. Sentencing will probably take place next week. I am against the death penalty in almost all cases, largely because there is no way to undo a wrong verdict. (So is the state of Massachusetts, where it has been banned since...
Apropos of nothing political…. How would you like to be able to send this kind of RSVP card? With congratulations to www.happyplace.com for making me laugh multiple times, here it is: A little overdone? Sure. But funny as funny can be? Even more sure. Ok, back to politics, where I\’d much rather be writing au revoirs than RSVPs.
Did you know that it is sexist to call Hillary Clinton Hillary? Personally, I didn\’t. I thought calling her Hillary was an advertising/public relations strategy; a way of ingraining the idea that she has something of a personal ownership of that name in the public\’s collective mind, so that when people see or hear it they think of her and only her. In...
