What’s Wrong With Israel?
Some of you may have gotten this but a number of subscribers called in to let me know that hey didn’t so I am sending it out again. Sorry. This week the right wing majority in Israel decided that they weren’t going
growls from Manhattan
Some of you may have gotten this but a number of subscribers called in to let me know that hey didn’t so I am sending it out again. Sorry. This week the right wing majority in Israel decided that they weren’t going
A couple of weeks ago the right wing majority in Israel decided that they weren’t going to give up building settlements and thereby torpedoed Obama’s peace attempt making our President and our country look like suckers for trying to help them. What’s
Once again the Republican congressmen are displaying their infantile ability to be obstructive without having any idea why, or indeed, having any serious or logical counterproposal. This week Republican Senator Kyl (shouldn’t that be pronounced kill) of Arizona went on the offensive
I’m looking at the front page of the NY Times today and I see a chart of the big donors to the current election campaigns. Over $180 million bucks and that’s just the top 10. What a monumental waste. Just think of
After listening to many experts, reading hundreds of opinion pieces and engaging in far too many discussions on the subject, it is more than clear that there are limited but very specific ways to conquer the recession. None is simple or easy
Was having coffee this weekend with an ultra-conservative friend. The discussion was, naturally, about the recent election and the Republican promise/threat to lower taxes and cut spending. I was naive enough to point out that as much as I hoped they were
I understand that for some unknown reason, many of my subscribers didn’t get this post published on 11/10. I am, therefore sending it our again and since I have no way of knowing who got it and who didn’t I’m sending it
People keep emailing me nostalgia, great charts where I can pick out music of the ‘50s, photos of the immigrant sections of NYC in the 1880s, lists of stuff that we don’t use anymore like glass milk bottles, steel roller skates and
The definition of insanity is continuing to repeat the same action and always expecting a different result. It may also be the definition of stupidity. Two columns in today’s NY Times, one by Ross Duthat and the other by Paul Krugman, although
That seems to be the question of the hour because whoever answers it correctly will come away with a November 2 victory. But is what America wants, really what America needs? There are as many answers to that as there are people