I mean Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recently asked a question regarding “Arab lands” in Israel. The PM’s response was that there was no such thing because, “It’s our land”.
People much smarter than me have rendered up answers to the question and I was particularly careful to ignore all of them – it [...]

THE PROGRAM TO ELIMINATE POVERTY:
FROM THE NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS UNION.
At a recent retreat/conference of the NWRU, the following eight position points were drafted and unanimously voted upon. We respectfully submit them to the Presidential Candidates as the foundation on which to start dismantling poverty in the U.S. The National Welfare Rights Union also believes that [...]

I normally hold to a strict policy of “if everyone else is saying it [or will be saying it], don’t add to the cacophony.” However, today I am making an exception.
This is Sonia Sotomayor’s now well-known comment that appellate courts are “where policy is made:”

Apologists for the Honorable Justice insist that the full clip shows [...]

Michael Jackson, that is. At least, I find it unlikely.
Nevertheless, New York Representative Peter King wants to know if I would let my (hypothetical) child spend time in a room alone with Jackson. The answer is certainly no, but that is due to a general policy I have about not allowing my future progeny to [...]

(And why the Beatles will be forgotten by 2064)
I hate popular music.
Since I met and married Rachel – the Center Of My Universe and the Reason For My Existence – I have been subjected to a particular genre of popular music each morning as she and I drive to some useless location in an effort [...]

In 2000, Walt Disney Studios released “Remember the Titans”, the story of  Coach Herman Boone (played by Denzel Washington) and his first year as head football coach at T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.  One of the things that makes this a great movie is that it never overtly states the movie’s theme:  [...]

In a recent piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, columnist Jay Bookman praised greed the way I am going to praise Jay Bookman.  Mr. Bookman is an artful wordsmith; his prose is always a pleasure to read, marred only by the fact that his ideas are usually rubbish.  I believe that I have complimented Mr. Bookman [...]

Where politics is involved, I have strict standards of exposure to which I rigidly adhere.
DIRECT MAIL DURING PRIMARIES:  Democratic candidate submittals are trashed without review.  Republican offerings are scrutinized with great care.
TELEVISION ADS AT ANY TIME IN THE PROCESS:  Like most American males, the television’s remote control is my scepter.  It is always close at [...]

Last week the dunces driving America’s automobile industry down the washboard road to oblivion, left their corporate jets in Motown and drove hybrid cars to Washington, DC to once again plead their case for a bailout. Having seriously misjudged the symbolic (and, therefore, political) importance of modes of transportation, these transportation moguls were, for [...]

History is made! For the first time since 1961, small children will live at the White House. Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but neither was really a child anymore, and neither was (at the time, at least), particularly photogenic. Some social scientist somewhere should examine why three [...]