Articles filed under Commentary
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Why did Brian Williams do it?Feb 12, 2015 12:00 am - These are tough times for NBC's Brian Williams - and tougher times for journalism. The NBC newsman was suspended Tuesday night for six months amid charges that he misre...
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Condemning Islam is the wrong courseFeb 11, 2015 12:00 am - Days after the video appeared of a Jordanian pilot horribly burned to death by an Islamic State death squad, President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast that all ...
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Pretty lies, ugly truths and ISISFeb 11, 2015 12:00 am - Unable to address the ugly truth, masking it with pretty lies, and substituting subtle innuendo for courage have become operational standards for this White House. Thoug...
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Netanhahu, Boehner - the bad boys of diplomacyFeb 10, 2015 12:00 am - From the days, centuries ago, when Tatar and then French were the languages of diplomacy, there was another language even more important than the spoken word. This was t...
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2016: Bumpy roads ahead to the nominationsFeb 08, 2015 12:00 am - Less than a year from now, voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere will gather in town centers, gymnasiums, local libraries and school cafeterias to kick off the 201...
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Unmasking Rand PaulFeb 08, 2015 12:00 am - It has become the Rand Paul pattern: A few weeks paddling vigorously in the mainstream, followed by a lapse into authenticity, followed by transparent damage control, fo...
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A real plan for economic growthFeb 06, 2015 12:00 am - “Today, thanks to a growing economy, the recovery is touching more and more lives.” So said President Obama in his State of the Union address. At first glance, this appe...
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Seeking a vaccine for ignoranceFeb 05, 2015 12:00 am - Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled th...
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Do liberals really have a free-speech problem?Feb 05, 2015 12:00 am - This just in: "Study Finds Fruitcake Right, Anti-gravity Left Share Similar Traits, Tactics." OK, so I made that up, although I'm confident that there's no end of psycho...
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Anti-Semitism: The most durable conspiracy theoryFeb 04, 2015 12:00 am - The title of my recently published book is "Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?" When I started writing it I did not know how I was going to answer that question. The more ...