Still Crazy After All These Years

In the midst of the ongoing effort by the Democrats to impeach President Trump, Paul Simon’s lyrics are relevant. While we tend to view politics as a cynical game, serious psychological issues are contributing to what is currently transpiring. It takes a special sort of person to work as a politician in the “big leagues.” …

Trump is Correct

As expected, the anti-Trump media is currently outraged by his comment that Jews who support Democratic anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli positions are “disloyal.” Trump’s might be disturbing to some, but not to those who understand what Judaism is about. Judaism is based on a covenant with God, and on the relationship of Jews to each other …

Never Again

Yesterday a Jewish group protested at an ICE center in Providence, RI. They were objecting to the enforcement of border security by ICE agents, comparing their ensuring the safety of the border with the racist policies of Nazi Germany. With the slogan “Never again!”they blocked access to the facility. The situation deteriorated when a truck …

El Paso

Mass killings in El Paso and Dayton perpetrated by young men with guns. The motives are still not known and it is doubtful that we will ever fully understand what motivates people to such behavior. The anti-gun activists will as usual blame weapons, but this alone cannot explain what we are seeing in America. The …

What Trump and Republicans Ignore at Their Own Peril

The economy is good—perhaps the best it has ever been—at least by the standards of the stock market, GNP, and unemployment rates. Yet Democratic Presidential candidates claim that Americans continue to suffer economically and apparently large blocks of voters agree. So what is the problem? Interestingly, the answer was given in 1951 by a self-educated …

Trump, the Fox, and the Hedgehog

The title of this blog may sound like a fairy tale, but it’s not. It refers to the famous essay, the Fox and the Hedgehog, by the political critic Isaiah Berlin, which adopts the distinct goal-achieving strategies of these two animals as a metaphor for how history is made. The hedgehog, according to Berlin, is …

Time is Precious: Don’t Waste It

Moscow Mitch? Certainly, the news media jests. But they don’t. Rather, they have become so unhinged from reality that no ridiculous accusation of treason, racism, etc. is considered as beyond the pale. We’ve grown accustomed (as well as weary) of the daily accusations directed against Donald Trump) but now the media’s targets are expanding. Leader …

Fighting Back

Americans are a people averse to confrontation. They are also hypersensitive on matters of race. So it is little wonder that we are witnessing outrage on the left and amongst some conservatives in their reaction to President Trump’s negative Tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings and the state of his congressional district of Baltimore, MD. True …

An Aging Mueller

The recent spectacle of the Mueller testimony before Congress raises questions that merit consideration and concern. At age 74, Mr. Mueller is no longer a young man; and it should be recognized that some, e.g., Donald Trump, age better than others. It would be wrong to make a diagnosis of early-stage dementia in Mueller’s case …

A Well of Wisdom

This blog is devoted to time-honored wisdom; i.e., common sense, as it has been transmitted through the ages. I’d give you my real name, but for a number of reasons I cannot. Suffice it to say, the current political climate makes free speech a challenge. Nevertheless,what I will say here needs to be heard. Solomon …