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What Difference Does It Make? 21 Aug 2013 | 11:50 am
“What difference, at this point, does it make?” Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shrieked that now-infamous question during her “testimony” earlier this year about the 9/11 Benghazi te...
The Pacifist And The Citizen-Soldier 20 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
President Kennedy, himself a World War II naval hero, once said, “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind…War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objecto...
Book Stores Need To Be Preserved 15 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
How often does someone ask, “What do you want first, the good news or bad?” What do you want to discuss first about how publishing gets a book to you? Good short-term receipts – or long-term angst? Re...
Ikhwan’s “Urban Jihad” Wages Terror War on Egypt’s Secular Revolution 15 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
On June 30, according to BBC, thirty-three million Egyptians marched against the Muslim Brotherhood regime, accusing Morsi’s elite of oppression, militia enabling, backing Jihadists, suppressing women...
21st Century Medicine Or Mom, I Want To Be A Doctor 9 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
Scene: Family dinner table, a middle-aged couple and their son, home from college. Father: “So, boy, have you figured out what you want to do with your life?” Son: “Yes dad, I’ve talked to my counselo...
Bogus Jasmine 7 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am
At the risk of being a critical minority of one, I have to point out that “Blue Jasmine” is a movie in which we are asked to take seriously and empathize with characters who are mostly cardboard ...
THE DATE 6 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
I always get a chill when I write today’s date, August 6th. To young Americans it may mean nothing. But to those of us of a certain age, it is the anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 194...
A Convenient Coincidence 5 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Isn’t it ironic? Just when criticism of America’s vast surveillance program is growing stronger by the day, the government announces it has discovered a serious terrorist threat. Thanks, of course, to...
Dear IOC, sorry yet on Rio choice? 5 Aug 2013 | 03:14 am
Dear International Olympic Committee: Howdy! Long time no talk to. Four years. Where does the time go? I know you’ve probably forgotten about Chicago, ever since you gave us the backhand in fall 2009,...
No Benghazi justice is scandal 5 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am
Following the attacks on our Benghazi consulate almost a year ago, President Obama said in a radio interview that “my biggest priority now is bringing those folks to justice, and I think the American ...
