My first wife, Renee, died in 1995. In the 1980’s she played a very small part in the Neil Simon movie, The Slugger’s Wife, starring Michael O’Keefe and Rebecca de Mornay. Renee was one of the baseball player’s wives and
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3 days before September 5, 1999, Israel made a premature switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time in order to accommodate a week of Slihot, Jewish prayers for forgiveness recited before Yom Kippur. Palestinians refused to “live on Zionist
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I hear the economy is bad. Stocks are down. The financial sectors are in a depression, and housing is as bad as its been in decades. High gas and food prices are causing problems. Outside of that my eyes are
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by Henry Oliner Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich want the president to draw down the strategic reserve of oil to help lower oil prices. When these two agree on anything it may be time to be suspect. Newt argues it
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And Obama is offended by a satire on the cover of the New Yorker? Is he ready for public life? credit American Thinker article by Rick Moran
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by Henry Oliner Three people in the last 24 hours have forwarded me an e-mail from the leading CEO’s of the major airlines asking for public support to curb the speculation which is driving up the cost of fuel and
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From the July 8th WSJ Political Diary – Has Obama Learned Anything from Tax History? New data from the IRS will be out in a few weeks on who pays how much in taxes. My contacts at the Treasury Department
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by Henry Oliner While Doug Feith in his excellent, “War and Decision” analyizes what went wrong ( and what went right) in the war on terror, he does not spare his own boss Rumsfeld or Bush. While Rumseld was brilliant
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by Henry Oliner Do all ideas deserve equal coverage? Should we spend as much time studying creationism as we do evolution? Should polygamy be granted as much public discourse as monogamy? Does the theory of a flat earth require equal
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During the fall of Bagdad Doug Feith was watching the famous scene of the toppling statue of Saddam, live on television. He noticed the US soldier draping an American flag on the head of the fallen statue. He recoiled seeing
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(CNN) — Phil Gramm, a top adviser to Sen. John McCain, on Thursday stood by his comment that the country is in a “mental recession,” and said he was trying to say the nation’s leaders, not its people, were “whiners.”
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Nicole Kidman just had a daughter named Sunday, who was born on a Monday. Actress Tuesday Weld was born on a Friday. I looked it up just so you could sleep better. HKO
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Doug Feith’s “War and Decision” tries to set the record straight as he saw it up close about the decision to send troops into Iraq and what went wrong. There was general agreement between the agencies that Saddam had to
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With little fanfare compared to the tired old “Bush lied; troops died” refrain, we now know that Saddam had stockpiled 550 tons of yellow cake. It has recently been in the news as sold and shipped to a Canadian company.
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If Obama is elected I predict he will have the lowest Jewish voter response since Jimmy Carter’s second run. In sheer numbers the Jewish vote pales in comparison to the Evangelical Christians. If Obama wins, the Jewish and the Evangelicals
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I realize that it is absolute heresy not to jump on the bandwagon of all the people who are embarrassed that George W. Bush is our president, but just to compare: Are the French at all embarrassed about selling Saddam
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Reverend Robert Sirico, a Catholic Priest, is the founder of the Lord Acton Institute; an organization dedicated to teaching free market principles to clergy. The clergy he had encountered most of his life were largely socialist and ignorant of capitalism.
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I get a lot of e-mails about Obama and his wife that are very suspect, and upon minimal checking on Snopes fact checker are either blatantly not true, or at least taken enough out of context to totally distort their
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Does McCain’s military experience qualify him for president? Not according to Obama’s advisor, Wesley Clark. By itself it certainly does not. But when we are in a war I want the Commader in Chief to know first hand the agony
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Like ‘The Truth About Chuck Norris’, ‘Stuff White People Like’ started out as a whimsical to nonsensical collection that became so popular on line that publishers sought to bring the content to the printed page and pursued the creators to
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