A religious experience
Following on all the high-minded talk about how important it is to respect other people’s beliefs, which began with my own comments on the Quran, I commend to your attention this video compilation from...
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Of course it’s not only Muslims who celebrate the deaths of people outside their God-favored circle. I was smitten recently by a video that surfaced in Israel, a wedding video from one of those West...
View ArticleHow the FBI keeps us safe
Here we go again. The FBI has found yet another easy mark, another vulnerable young man — black, mentally disturbed, a jailhouse convert to Islam — that it could dupe into going along with a...
View ArticleSarah Palin, poet
I hope everyone enjoyed Sarah Palin’s speech endorsing Donald Trump as much as I did. For me, Tina Fey herself couldn’t have done it any better. Not for the first time did I appreciate her talent with...
View ArticleState to blacklist boycotters
My favorite bill hanging fire in the state Legislature is one with the unprepossessing title “An act to amend the state finance law and the retirement and social security law, in relation to purchasing...
View ArticleHow to end a standoff — or not
Looking for a bit of entertainment the other day, I picked up a video about the MOVE disaster in Philadelphia back in the 1980s, if anyone happens to remember that historic event. A black militant cult...
View ArticleThe GOP: Hoist with its own petard
I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying the Republican presidential contest. I watched the debate the other night, and it was the hardest I had laughed since — well, since the day before, when I watched...
View ArticleLive at the library
Dear friends & readers: Just to let you know, tomorrow (Tues., March 15) I’ll be doing an oral book review at the Albany Public Library, in the big meeting room on the first floor. The time is...
View ArticleNo rally for me
Sorry I can’t make the Trump circus tonight. I’ve got another engagement. I’m not sure what I would do there anyway – chant “No more hate!” or some such? Interview the miserable lunks who themselves...
View ArticleTijuana report
As an extension of a swing through the southwestern region of our great country, I confess that my wife and I skipped across the border to Tijuana, a place that I have long spurned as not the real...
View ArticleAirport security (Misguided Dept.)
Every time I travel by plane I say the day is coming when it will be my last. The sardine-like compaction in the plane, the gouging fees for everything from carry-on bags to checking in in person, and...
View ArticleGood-bye to The Greatest
Muhammad Ali and I were the same age, separated by only three weeks, and in many ways I measured myself by him, beginning when he beat Sonny Liston in 1964, and I, feeling myself still a kid, realized...
View ArticleGov. Cuomo — forgetting the Liberty
Today is June 8, the 49th anniversary of an event that has been all but erased from the national memory, that is, the attack on the American naval vessel the USS Liberty by our great partner in peace...
View ArticleCuomo safe — for now
I believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo is safe, at least for the time being, having issued an executive order to punish companies that participate in or promote a boycott of Israel. That should cover him. The...
View ArticleTipping point
Well, I guess we all have our tipping point. Take me, for example. I’ve been a huge Trump fan right from the get-go, right from when he was demanding to see Obama’s birth certificate and suggesting...
View ArticleLiberal media eats crow
Do you remember the gloating of the liberal media just a couple of months ago to the effect that Donald Trump was so disorganized, so politically inept that he had raised almost no campaign money...
View ArticleSave the trees
Allow me to make a proposal for what I think will be civic betterment: The cutting of mature trees on private property should be subject to permit the same as any other major alteration to one’s...
View ArticleTrump, yet again
How to describe Donald Trump — buffoon, flimflam artist, liar, bigot, egomaniac, demagogue? All have been tried, but none seem adequate. He began to make a name for himself in politics by questioning...
View ArticleParis report
The French are strange people, I concluded after a week of exploring Paris. First off, they wear pants, if you can imagine such a thing, and not just pants, but shirts also, many of them, and leather...
View ArticleGrab ’em by the what?
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve had it. I’ve reached my limit. I hereby withdraw my support from Donald Trump. Until now I’ve thought maybe he is the president that America deserves. He is certainly the...
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