Archive for: March 26, 2008

On March 19th, I found a story on The Jerusalem Post detailing an attack by Muslim youths on a rabbinical assistant that occurred at a Brooklyn, New York subway station. The youths grabbed Uria Ohana’s yarmulke off his head …

How utterly clever of the great state of New York, having just expunged all manners of decadence and moral rot from the governor’s mansion following the abbreviated, but hilarious, term of Eliot Spitzer, to turn around and install another defective …

The Chinese crackdown in Tibet, the mobilization of Chinese troops against the independence-loving Tibetan people, cannot be categorized as shocking. We have known since the Dali Lama fled in exile some 50 years ago that this was inevitable.

An avid reader, I’ve learned much about individualism and freedom by reading about what life is like when these are taken away from groups of people. I recently finished The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini, which tells the story …

In recent times, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has fouled the air on the floor of the U.S. Senate by calling a proposal to make English the official language “racist.” “This amendment is racist. I think it’s directed basically to …

Big speech in Philadelphia for Barack Obama today (March 18). Big for what it could mean for his presidential hopes, which had been going very well, until his pastor‘s rants tripped him up. Perhaps even for race relations in America, …