Despite spending more than half a billion dollars over the last quarter century, U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba have gained only a tiny audience and have had virtually no effect on the island's politics, according to a new report by the Senate Foreign Relations...
Hullabaloo in Times Square
I often walk through Times Square where the Incompetent Bomber parked his 1993 Nissan Pathfinder last Saturday with the alarm clocks wired to the M88 firecrackers in the canister between the five-gallon gasoline containers and the three propane tanks, the bags of...
Tuesday: 2 US Soldiers, 5 Iraqis Killed; 21 Iraqis Wounded
Microsoft Scapegoat 1.0
The Pentagon's lame-excuse directorate has a new reason why we're not winning our woeful war on -ism. The “Blame Cell,” in its various ad hoc and formal manifestations, has been successfully warding off culpability for the Defense Department's failures since the...
Return Our Weekend Warriors
If George W. Bush – notorious for skipping his Texas Air National Guard drills during the Vietnam War – were in the Guard today, he'd be up in the air without a propeller. That's because today's National Guard has become virtually indistinguishable from the nation's...
Monday: 1 US Soldier, 7 Iraqis Killed; 22 Iraqis Wounded
A Realist Breakthrough?
Now don't get all excited, or anything, but there is a real chance that the Obama administration may be on the way to a general Middle Eastern peace settlement, one that bypasses the relatively narrow Israeli-Palestinian question, and cuts right to the chase. As...
A Cloud Over Jerusalem
Everyone has the right to change his or her mind. Even Danny Tirzeh. Col. Tirzeh was responsible for planning the wall that "envelopes" Jerusalem – the one that cuts the city off from the West Bank in order to turn it into the United Capital of Israel for All...
The Wiesenthal Center’s Bait and Switch
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's stated purpose is "confronting anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaching the lessons of the Holocaust." Rabbi Marvin Hier established...