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Did Obama Meet Chamberlain?

September 17, 2009
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Neville Chamberlain was by all accounts a kind and clever man, an idealist with the best of intentions. Eminently civilized, he always took high tea at the prescribed time. A confident and highly experienced negotiator, he truly believed that he could successfully appease Hitler and Nazi Germany. His desire for peace was profound and authentic. [...]

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Freedom vs. Tolerance

June 29, 2009

Transcript of a speech I delivered at the American Freedom Alliance and Council for Democracy and Tolerance annual “Heroes of Conscience” dinner on June 7, 2009. The event paid tribute to Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom, and Alan Craig, London councilor and campaigner in opposition to the planned Olympic [...]

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Alcatraz or NIMBY

June 13, 2009

Nancy Pelosi – our water-boarding, flip-flopping Speaker of the House – needs to rise to the occasion of her own making and offer up Alcatraz Island as the new home for all 241 inmates in GuantanamoBay. If Sarah Palin can see Russia from her Alaskan front porch, why can’t Pelosi enjoy her morning herbal tea [...]

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You Cannot Kill an Ideology

February 9, 2009

Deepak Chopra, the most prolific of New Age self-help spiritual gurus appears to have expanded his mandate to offer guidance in the angst-ridden realm of international affairs. His résumé speaks for itself—no political, economic, or military training, experience or prior erudition. He has, however, written a series of guaranteed self-help solutions for all our modern-day [...]

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The Exquisite Irrelevance of Proportionality

January 6, 2009

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and assorted other world leaders have roundly condemned Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ use of force in Gaza. Pandering to those who elevate Hamas’ unprovoked civilian targeting to a higher moral plane than Israel’s defensive response, blaming Israel seems (once again) to be the politics du jour on the Continent. Since Hamas took power [...]

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Islamism is Indeed Fascism

March 31, 2008

Islam can be a religion of moderation, of peace. If the majority of the one billion Muslims were not moderate and supported al-Qaeda, the Western World would be simply overwhelmed in spite of its technological, military and financial superiority. One billion radicals, martyrs, terrorists, Jihadists and their supporters would quickly reduce the world to ashes [...]

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Obama’s Peak is Past

March 19, 2008

Obama’s pastor of 20 years, the fiery Reverend Wright, would have us damn America for the many sins he so energetically and repeatedly points out. He further claimed in 2006 that racist America, run by rich white folk, could never countenance a black president. Now that he has co-opted brown Obama, born of a white [...]

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Militants?

March 7, 2008

8 Killed…by Palestinian MILITANT (pg 1, LA Times, Mar. 7, 08) Militants? Those are marchers in San Francisco shouting anti-Bush slogans Those are protestors scuffling with police at the G8 Summits in Seattle and Rome. Those are volunteers of The Minutemen patrolling our southern borders. However they are certainly not the terrorist who chose a [...]

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Obama!

January 22, 2008

Born in 1961 in Honolulu of a white American woman from very white Kansas, and a Muslim Kenyan father from that reasonably democratic and independent African country (his middle name coincidentally is Hussein). Obama also lived in Jakarta, Indonesia until age 10. Now how does that make him black? Suntanned looks but not American black. [...]

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Silver Lining in the Cloud

March 1, 2003

There is always a silver lining not always evident in the opaque world of international politics. Perhaps, France’s current power hungry assertiveness and Germany’s self indulgent pacifism have made it easy, nay even pushed, the rest of Europe into the broad transatlantic alliance against Saddam Hussein and terrorist groups, Europeans that for decades have been [...]

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