Archives for September 2005

Yesterday, John Glover Roberts Jr was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He will now preside over a Court that has become the arbiter of what is not only legal in America but also of what is morally correct! In a surprising bipartisan gesture, the Senate voted 78-22… Read more.

Beth Holloway seems to have conceded that her daughter Natalee will never be found; and worse still, that those she is convinced are responsible for her disappearance will never be prosecuted. And unless one has lost a child under similar horrific and mysterious circumstances, I suppose it’s impossible to understand what motivated Mrs Holloway to… Read more.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted yesterday on felony conspiracy charges stemming from a Texas (good ole boy) fundraising scam. In response to the indictment, DeLay issued the following politically correct statement: I have notified the Speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position as majority leader pursuant to rules of the… Read more.

The force of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita sucked public sympathy and media attention away from Cindy Sheehan (whose son was killed in action in Iraq). And, it seems this notoriously grieving mother does not appreciate losing her grip on the public’s consciousness to Mother Nature and the victims whose lives she devastated. But Mrs Sheehan… Read more.

A South African AIDS expert Saturday advocated male circumcision as the best available “vaccine” against the virus in his country, where an estimated 6 million people are infected and more than 600 people die every day. So began a hopeful but controversial Circumcision: The ultimate slice of faith for Jews that may also offer protection… Read more.

I heartily endorse the prospect of a female president of the United States. In fact, last March, I published a commentary on a dream contest between Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice for the 2008 presidential election. Because I really believe either one of these women would do a far better job as president than any… Read more.

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Simon Wiesenthal, the holocaust survivor who waged a relentless crusade to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, died last Tuesday at 96. Angels report that Wiesenthal was so proficient in his fight against evil that – upon reaching the pearly gates of heaven – God granted him a special dispensation to visit the Devil to… Read more.

When Hurricane Katrina was still gathering storm in the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks ago, I commented that if any country were equal to the task of Mother Nature’s fury, it is the United States. I cited America’s abundant resources, emergency management protocols and evacuation plans as all anyone could hope for to limit… Read more.