by Henry Oliner | Oct 31, 2009 | Business, Politics, Republicans
The Race in NY District 23 has become a pivotal fight for the soul of the Republican Party. Dede Scozzafava was run by the Republican machine but has been so thoroughly rejected by the Republican grass roots that she has effectively resigned from the race rather than...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 30, 2009 | Foreign policy
Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create the League of Nations. The United States did not join the League of Nations . This precursor to the United Nations was powerless to stop the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the other events...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2009 | Israel, Middle East, Terrorism
Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe Peace vs the ‘peace process’ October 14, 2009 Excerpts: In an important article in the current Middle East Quarterly, Daniel Pipes reviews the terrible failure of the 1993 Oslo accords, and homes in on the root fallacy of...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 27, 2009 | Politics
Much was made of Olympia Snowe being the sole Republican to sign on to the Senate health care bill. Harry Reid has emerged from a closed door session with a health care bill WITH a public option despite the Senate Finance Committee’s vote not to include a public...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 27, 2009 | Anti Semitism, Israel, Random
“More than that, no country in the world, not even Germany, would respond “proportionately” if some nonstate militia started rocketing their towns from across some border and killing German citizens. If a government could not get the state from...
