Antisemitism, American Style

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An effective way to curry favor with an irascible benefactor is to scold its critics at a public event those critics don’t attend. Uncontested accusations tend to stick and the speaker gains a point with the benefactor. Joe Biden did this in his “antisemitic” speech delivered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance on May 7. The charge: antisemitism. The accused: the students holding pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses across the country protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza since Hamas’s attack on Israel October 7, 2023. The question: who’s the benefactor? Continue reading →

A Child’s Greatest Good Fortune

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Having a child is arguably the single most momentous event a woman can experience — whether good or bad. It triggers a transformation that consumes everything she has to offer physically, mentally, emotionally, often financially. And, as we all know, the event does not end, but only begins with the birth of the child. Some women are not ready for that. Continue reading →

Forked Diplomacy

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We little guys of democracy, the billion wiggling arms and legs, hands and feet, fingers and toes of today’s behemoth governments, must expose their treacherous double-talk as the deliberate attempt to deceive us that it is. If we do not, they will exploit our confusion to encroach further on our rights, fracture our societal bonds, and expropriate our collective wealth until the power, discretion, and orientation we once had to stop them has been stripped from us as well. Two examples suffice. Continue reading →

Putin’s Torment

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Aleksei Navalny’s choice to return to Russia had been sheer stupidity. He had climbed back into Putin’s ring. To have the man once again in his power so intensely delighted the Russian potentate that he did not trust himself to be near him, to pronounce his name, even to know who he was. Wisely, Vladimir Putin outsourced his cherished prisoner. Continue reading →