The President’s Deadly Obsession
Posted on November 16, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
A common conclusion in the commentary on President Obama’s denigration of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the G-20 summit conference in France two weeks ago – in which Obama said he, too, was “fed up” with Netanyahu after French President Sarkozy called Netanyahu a liar – is that it revealed Obama’s true feelings not only [...]
Read More..>>The Longstanding Mendacity of Colin Powell
Posted on September 8, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Jennifer Rubin, who blogs for the Washington Post, has written a devastating critique of Colin Powell’s conduct during and after the investigation of the leak revealing Valerie Plame’s employment at the CIA. Even though he knew the leaker was his deputy, Richard Armitage. Powell, to his eternal disgrace, remained silent even after Lewis Libby, Vice-President [...]
Read More..>>Speaking Loudly, and Carrying a Small Stick – or No Stick at All.
Posted on August 1, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
“Terrorists.” As in Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. As in Hezbollah and Hamas. That is what the Vice President of the United States called supporters of the Tea Party today. The absence of any sense of proportion – not to mention common human decency — in his characterization is typical of how the Obama administration [...]
Read More..>>Another moral equivalence from the left
Posted on August 1, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
What follows is the most recent column by Susan Campbell, who writes regularly for the Hartford Courant. My reply follows: Where’s The Outcry Against A Christian Terrorist? Susan Campbell July 31, 2011 Some days, I miss the black-and-white world of my religious upbringing, where right was right, and wrong was Satan. I miss, too, having [...]
Read More..>>Interview after the death of Elena Bonner
Posted on June 25, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
What follows is the text of an online interview I did with Frontpage Magazine shortly after the death of Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, on June 18. —– Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Jay Bergman, Professor of History at Central Connecticut University and the author, most recently, of Meeting the Demands of Reason: [...]
Read More..>>How Many Palestinian States are There and How Many Should There be?
Posted on May 31, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Largely absent in the extensive analyses of President Obama’s recent pronouncement that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own – without their having to agree that Israel should remain a Jewish one – is acknowledgment that there already is a Palestinian state. It is called Jordan. Jordan has been ruled since its creation in [...]
Read More..>>Another Act of Cowardice in Academia
Posted on May 31, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Readers of Democracy Project may recall the brouhaha in which the trustees of the City University of New York [CUNY] took their oversight responsibility seriously and tabled a resolution originating in the faculty giving an honorary degree to Tony Kushner, a rabidly left-wing playwright whose condemnation of atrocities he imagines Israel to have committed is [...]
Read More..>>One Less Thing to Worry About
Posted on May 31, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
There is, we are often told, a silver lining to every black cloud. This may be true of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Without a doubt his demise is good for America and everyone else in the world who abhors the Islamic radicalism of which Bin Laden was the most obvious and egregious practitioner, [...]
Read More..>>“President Obama’s Ignorance of History”
Posted on May 4, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
For many years those of us in academia who have criticized the multiculturalism that pervades American colleges and universities could console ourselves that after they graduated, students exposed to it would reject its principal assumption – that the United States is irredeemably racist, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic, and thus warranting condemnation far greater than what [...]
Read More..>>“NATO Past and Present, and Why the Obama Administration Values it”
Posted on April 2, 2011 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
As a military alliance, NATO is overrated. Contrary to a popular misconception, NATO did not keep the peace in Europe during the Cold War. American troops did. Although for political reasons no American president could say so publicly, American troops were in Western Europe to die. Only the deaths of American soldiers in a Soviet [...]
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