That a nation bred out of Diaspora would deny refugees entry to their land is ironic. Considering Israel’s paranoia of its predominately European make up becoming a minority particularly with the ominous pressure of Palestinian’s “right of return,” in addition to being a very small country, it is understandable despite the besmirched image. Nonetheless, Israel is allowing 500 from Darfur while deciding to expel 1200 to Egypt, but so far only 48 as Egypt is not keen on the idea, having already 2 ...
Forget about military and political shortcomings; perhaps more important is that only ten Iraqi factories are functioning minimally while the other 190 are still dysfunctional. Obviously this gaping hole contributes to the 70% unemployment, leaving millions to get sucked into the malcontent insurgency. This is in face of millions of American dollars spent on startup funds to industries, not to mention billions of occupation dollars for infrastructure with barely a spark at the end of the tunnel....
Bush’s equation of Iraq and Vietnam was only for the enhancement of the image of the chaotic exodus of the final days of the latter and thereby run fear through America of an inevitable slaughter in Iraq as in any civil strife. This is purely non-sequitur, for in Vietnam the chaos stemmed from thousands of South Vietnamese who feared for their lives under communist rule, and not the withdrawal of our troops which had not been abrupt but had steadily progressed over years. The military strateg...
Democrats should desist from urging the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison and as an alternative propose intensified international organizations to assess conditions there and perhaps suggest more humane conditions along—in the spirit of Nuremberg trials—with prison rights to habeas corpus and right of military or Arab-speaking counsel for swift, but fair military court hearings for alleged violent terrorists. For those cases not clearly involved in violent terrorism should be given civilian trial...
Admittedly Move On went over the top with the use of “Betray us,” which is as bad as Senator Joe McCarthy's utterance to a respected General, “Sir, you are unfit to wear the uniform.” However, it is fair to say that under the orders of his Commander in Chief, Petraeus surely did way lay us with charts and statistics on the edge of dishonesty. Taking credit because of the surge in Anbar when the sheiks and marines had the situation in hand before then--that is, till four sheiks were blown...
The argument human activity is causing global warming is rather difficult to deny or accept in a whimsical planet driven by geological time. What is certain is the population and industrial explosion worldwide taxing the natural balancing act of the globe because humans—and there are more of them coming—make greater demands on the planet’s resources and stripping it of sensible and necessary conservation.Back in the ’50s and ’60s California, in particular the major cities, it was blanketed in sm...
It used to be that an Our Father and a Hail Mary would go along way in soothing the conscience by overriding the sin of gluttony. In the early ’60s to rebel against conspicuous consumption one bought a Beetle to flaunt and prick the conscience of the Cadillac driver. But the current lunacy rivals even the Vatican’s dishonor in commercially offering indulgences in the middle ages.This lunacy is in voluntary carbon offsets to counter the gluttonous energy user who guzzles down the planet’s resourc...
A recent Washington Post editorial points out that the 150 th anniversary of Dred Scott decision spurred in Maryland new protests that the chief justice [Taney] who wrote the decision: “… beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations.” Yet Maryland on public grounds has three statues of Taney causing activists to demand removal of these statues at the State House and City Hall. The Post’s view that in spite of this...
You really have to hand it to Hillary’s acumen to be so into the gay thing and still remain straight. Or is it simply Hillary being Hillary, like I’m for the war but against it?
It breaks my heart to see on TV so many beautiful women—Kellyanne Conway and ilk—boasting their Republican positions. ’Tain’t fair! I’m bad on names who are some others?
Fred Thompson should get off his fat rump and declare his manhood or dropout and let his young wife run.
Should the rest of the nation follow these states by proportionately—based on statewide voting—by dividing up its electoral vote? What’s your take on it? And is it any different from a general popular vote?
The best thing for curbing global warming in lieu of countless esoteric alternatives would be nationwide commitment to drive less, slow down, attend to air tire maintenance, keep distance and brake less. At home light switch works both ways, buy fluorescent bulbs, adjust thermostat to stoic level, minimize opening refrigerator-freezer, shutdown computer and TV when not in use. Moreover does stores have to be 24/7, close them down at dusk and Sundays, shut down the damn Internet one day a we...
Obama’s untiring reminder that he did not vote for the war as though a state senate vote was equivalent to one in Washington, I find glaringly ironic that he would be in favor of his own brand of unilateral action on the border of Pakistan.
Congress—more accurately the dems—should end its fetish over Gonzales and simply let him fade away, along with his president, into irrelevance. With the administration on its last legs it’s pointless to harp on its obvious incompetence. What’s done is done; instead legislators should focus on how to make the Justice Department whole again for ensuing administrations.