Like the rest of the world, I have been transfixed by the discovery in Cleveland of three young women who were freed this week after a decade in captivity near their homes. As far as I am concerned, the three brothers can be let loose in an Ohio prison, especially one rife with Hispanic gangs. There they might get a real education in rape, pillage | Read More »
On Tuesday of this week, President Barack H. Obama told members of the American military forces that he’s got their back. Was he speaking about soldiers posted to the most dangerous areas? Benghazi, perhaps. No, forget that. On Tuesday, Obama told reporters that he spoke to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel earlier in the day to reiterate that the administration has “to not just step | Read More »
I live hundreds of miles from Chicago now. Tonight I was telling my middle child of life at his grandfather’s car business on that city’s South Side. When I was in high school, Father took the $300 from my bar mitzvah savings, a similar amount from my brothers’ account and the $300 he and Mom had saved, to open a used car lot on Ashland | Read More »
As the earlier diary entry made clear, the Thanksgiving blog post of my local rabbi posed a number of questions. I took the liberty there and here in answering those questions. Some time has passed and my comments at blogspot remain under moderation. The lack of response has led me to respond to one of his earlier postings: As a Rabbi, I am supposed to | Read More »
On Thanksgiving morning, the rabbi at my synagogue posed a series of questions on his blog. Today, I took the liberty of responding to them there. Following are his queries and my answers. Why have we, as lovers and supporters of Israel, found it necessary to flood social media like Facebook and Twitter with constant statements of support for Israel? It is truly heartening to | Read More »
To: Barack H. Obama, President of the United States John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Gentlemen: As you know only too well, the nation is facing a fiscal cliff at year end. In the absence of compromise legislation, tax rates in place for the past decade will rise to their previous levels and certain federal expenditures (principally defense) will be slashed. You, | Read More »
Memo to Mitt. Invoke Ozzie Guillen. Everyone in America, even folks who can’t speak English, will understand you. Stand up in the debates and explain the Benghazi attacks like this: It’s like you’re in a tight game and the other team’s pitcher throws at one of your guys. Beans him. Kills him. What are you going to do? What would Ozzie Guillen, manager now in | Read More »
Memo to selected Massachusetts voters: Pls note that your candidate for US Senate, Elizabeth Warren, describes herself as the Godmother of Occupy Wall Street. While she began the night on the defensive over her Native American heritage claims, Warren’s credibility was further damaged when Brown pointed out that Warren, the self proclaimed “intellectual godmother of Occupy Wall Street”and defender of the middle class against evil | Read More »
Just think. If you had had a second rate education, had just skated by an academic fraud charge for a book you had published and had pretended to be due an Affirmative Action designation, you could be a Senator. Or not
I base this on a small but realistic sample. For the past several weeks I have been going once or twice a week to make calls at a local Republican Victory Center in Michigan. Our function has been a simple one: calling on lists of swing voters to ask whether Mitt or they other guy will have their vote come the election. This weekend we | Read More »
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