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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will meet with President Biden at the White House on Wednesday and later deliver a prime-time address to a joint session of Congress, a daring trip abroad intended to reaffirm American support for his country, White House officials announced late Tuesday night. (The New York Times, December 21, 2022) Ukraine… Read more.
Idle bluster, abject ignorance, bald-faced lies, and thin-skinned petulance characterized Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The same, alas, are characterizing his presidency. But it’s one thing for the media to cover his campaign as little more than reality TV. It’s quite another for them to cover his presidency as such. Yet that’s precisely what they’re doing… Read more.
Despite my seasoned cynicism, the chutzpah of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never ceases to amaze me. (“Netanyahu, Obama’s Iago; Iran, His Desdemona,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 2, 2013) Netanyahu has demonstrated throughout his career that there’s no event too solemn, or too farcical, for him to exploit for political gain. This exploitation invariably has… Read more.
President Obama sent out a letter to his increasingly frustrated supporters yesterday letting them know how frustrated he is with the way Republicans have rejected all of his job-creation policies. Within hours the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, reinforced Obama’s point by rejecting his request to present his latest policies to a Joint Session… Read more.
The impact of this recession is real, and it is everywhere. But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than… Read more.
