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  • BIANNUAL BUDGET LEADS TO ISRAEL’S ECONOMIC SUCCESS


    At a time Barack Obama celebrates the passage of a two month tax holiday extension after 2 years of failing to pass a budget, Israel’s finance minister’s attribution of Israel’s economic success to a move to a biannual budget should have a particular resonance in the US. Yuval Steinitz explained in an interview [...]
  • IN MEMORIAM: A Year in the Death of Richard Holcrooke


    It has been a full year since the earth was relieved of the weight of one Richard Holbrooke on December 13, 2010. I wanted to mark the one-year anniversary of his overdue death, since it is still many years before the world will recover from his life. While I feel I’ve already [...]
  • Why the world sucks


      There have been 18 homicides in my town so far this year. That includes the assassination of a policeman in the line of duty last month, and the stabbing death of a 22-year-old kid who died today, on Christmas Eve. Why do they keep killing each other? Why can’t we stop behaving like barbarians? On one hand, I don’t [...]
  • My meeting with Newt; other impressions from the RJC candidates’ forum and last debate


    Covering the Republican Jewish Coalition’s candidates’ forum a couple weeks back, I had the (brief) opportunity to meet Newt Gingrich (pictured above with his wife Callista, South Dakota Senator Dan Lederman, and yours truly). Since the gathering was off-the-record, I can’t divulge what was discussed. Let’s just say it was wild [...]
  • Poop on a pedistal


    To get an audience with a head of state, typically, one must have accomplished or been party to something of significance, and I guess that’s true with “Palestine,” too. It’s just that it seems that what qualifies as a significant achievement there diverges considerably from what most other cultures would find appropriate. News agencies reported recently that [...]
  • The U.N funds Hitler glorification to kids


    So, UNESCO, an arm of that failed experiment known as the United Nations that recently voted “Palestine” into its ranks as a full member, will bring to the Palestinians’ attention that they’re producing a children’s magazine that that glorifies Hitler. I’m sure they don’t already know this perfectly well and that mentioning it will be very [...]
  • Freedom and Tyranny


    Over the past day or so, we’ve gotten the news of the deaths of two prominent global leaders: former Czech president Vaclav Havel and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. The two men could not have been more different. Havel was a brave voice in the wilderness of communist hell. Locked and brutalized behind the Iron [...]
  • Sharansky calls for support for reformers; Alusi cautions U.S. troop withdrawal a blow to human rights in Iraq; Havel, champion of democracy, dies


    The Washington Post just ran this thought-provoking piece on the Arab Spring by former Soviet dissident refusenik and Israeli Parliamentarian Natan Sharansky. As I wrote last spring, Recent upheavals across the mideast from Egypt to Tunisia to Syria can be viewed through the prism of Sharansky’s ideas on democracy and even as [...]
  • Potpourri


    1. After the latest GOP debate, the race is still Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich, but the other candidates really helped themselves with strong, confident performances—with the exception of Ron Paul, who really hurt himself with his dovish answers on Iran, which revealed that he’s living in a bizarre, dangerous unreality. 2. A new Gallup poll [...]
  • Call Me Ishmael


    For forty years, his passion was teaching Moby Dick. Mr. G was my high school English teacher and for six weeks each year, he would parse “The Great American Novel” with a obsession like that of one-legged Captain Ahab pursuing the Great White Whale. Our eyes glazed over as he attempted, vainly, to captivate [...]

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