From the yearly archives:

2008

Gilad Shalit: 900 days in a Gaza Prison

December 30, 2008

A series of boats, stocked with reporters and (on second thought) presumed medical and food supplies have plied the waters of the Gaza coast, hoping to provoke a strong Israeli reaction. The ongoing blockade by Israel’s small but efficient navy prevents shipments of TNT, rockets, bombs, guns, ammunition and assorted other war/terrorism materials from reaching [...]

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Green Christmas Gifts

December 24, 2008

What if President Bush had the opportunity to grant the free world a final Christmas gift: 10 cruise missiles for the world’s 10 worst dictators, terrorists and/or murderers? I would imagine Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea’s maniacal Kim Jong-il, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (currently ensconced in Damascus), Sudan’s Omar Hasan al-Bashir, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah [...]

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10 Rules for the Future: An Obama Suggestive

December 17, 2008

Cap tax-deductible CEO remuneration at a maximum of 30 times the salary of that public company’s lowest paid worker. Thereabove, salaries will not be tax deductible as an operating expense for an employer. In addition, no bonuses (in cash or shares) for top management of a public company will be tax deductible if the company [...]

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Mumbai Media Machinations

December 1, 2008

Hypocrisy drips heavy from the broadcast towers of the Western media. The tragedies in Mumbai set in stark relief the variation in media labels for those that kill Jews in Israel and those that kill innocents of other creeds in other places. You will note that “militants” hardly exist in this horror, but “terrorists” abound. [...]

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Pirates’ Heaven

November 21, 2008

Off Somalia’s vast Indian Ocean coastline, a set of entrepreneurial Somalis have found gainful employment in one of the world’s most impoverished settings. The Horn of Africa is the setting for a latter day “Barbary Pirates,” where ragtag groups equipped with GPS devices, rocket-propelled grenades and assorted machine guns roam at will, boarding supertankers and [...]

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Thomas L. Friedman on Energy

November 17, 2008

Friedman writes eloquently of a seemingly radical yet eminently sensible and largely ignored concept that could potentialize the most important issues of our day: – immediate energy conservation (oil) – sizable development of alternative sources – reduce oil funding to Jihadist/terrorism supporting countries – directly reduce funding thereby for terrorist organizations – reduction of our [...]

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Leaving Chicago

November 3, 2008

A most interesting report from CBS2Chicago.com informs us that during the recent summer months (May 26th – September 1st, 2008), more Americans were shot and killed in Chicago (an estimate of 125) than in the whole of war-torn Iraq (65 U.S. soldiers). This astounding statistic begs the question: When will we hear a strident call [...]

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Obama “Heavy”

October 31, 2008

Obama “lite” was all about messianic change – equality, fraternity and perpetual hope for all of America’s citizens and non-citizens. Now – courtesy of the financial crisis – we are getting a large dose of Obama “heavy:” bigger government and increased taxes for the wealthy. A perfect ploy to rustle up votes amongst the masses. [...]

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Hunter to Hunted

October 10, 2008

As Saturday Night Live and Tina Fey have most humorously confirmed, Sarah Palin looked out every morning from her Alaskan home and could see Russia. What they failed to conversely postulate was that Obama likely looked out every morning of his remarkably well planned career and instead saw the White House, clearly illuminated and in [...]

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Regeneration of the Biblical Dead Sea

October 6, 2008

Amid the constant turmoil and angst boiling over in Israel and the West Bank, at the center of the Middle East, lies the Dead Sea. [3] This salt-laden desert sea is rapidly diminishing in size as its source, the Jordan River, dries up: the Syrians (via the Yarmuk, a source for the Jordan), Israelis and [...]

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