Politics

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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937) This quirk of human nature ranks among those for which we have the ...

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. - Dwight David Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969) Fear of their security, among Ameri...

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest. - William Shakespeare, 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv In other words, hold some things back, keep some things ...

"Freedom" is always used in an argument as a propaganda term calling for a need to fight. "You have to fight for freedom" is the way the word is usually used, though not in tho...

A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. - Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935) For "king" we can substitute any national ...

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. - Herbert W. Boyer,...

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. - Jean Anouilh, playwright (1910-1987) The word pr...

A cult is a religion with no political power. - Tom Wolfe Hidden beneath this deceptively simple statement about religious cults is a much larger statement about religions in ...

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts...perhaps the fear of a loss of power. - John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) Lucky Alexander the Great! He died at age ...

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which ...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson In theory, the representatives of the people in a democracy sh...

I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not le...

The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. - Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton),...

This is a list of countries with proven reachable oil reserves in billions of barrels, and is a rough estimate based on the ability to recover the oil by current technological ...

For a great amount of time, perhaps for the greater part of the civilization of the world, mankind has been under authority. And, when it came to the origin of the rights of t...

The following photos and words are shared with us from Israeli Yuval Zaliouk (who is from Haifa but also has a home near Toledo, Ohio). See for yourself how the Israelis, by th...

I met Yitzhak Rabin in the Israeli Parliament in 1982 during Hanukkah. I was able to talk with him briefly and mention I was associated with Ambassador College in Pasadena, Cal...

Nobody arrested me. I was DETAINED when I faithfully reported to the police office at 9 a.m. Monday morning, January 9, 1996 (day before my birthday) the day after The Jerusale...

"The American Diplomat in Arafat's Corner," published in The Jerusalem Report, came as no surprise to me. It was referring to Edward Abington, Jr., the United States' former co...

A three judge Israeli panel permitted certain women to have services at the Western Wall, noting they "have the right to pray according to their custom...It is unacceptable tha...

(Note: This article was written as a response to Charles Krauthammer's presentation on "Democratic Globalism" in 2004 . . . its immediate reflections are all the more significa...

A friend of mine and I were talking about the horrible claims of abuse by our soldiers in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Gitmo has been the source of many complaints over ...

The gun control debate in America is a battle between personal freedom and public safety. For nearly 160 years, there were no limits to the Second Amendment, which guarantees "...

As someone who once received the highest Civics exam score in the State of Florida, it?s always fun to watch a mainline political party set itself up for a devastating politica...

The problem of poverty in America comes as a surprise. How can a wealthy nation experience poverty? Though the rate of poverty is lower in a developed nation like America than ...

"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath t...

"Hard-line settlers?" What's wrong with being a settler? Wasn't the United States founded by pioneers? Settlers? I know we were because my ancestors were honored to be among th...

?Radical Terrorism? (a.k.a. Islamic Terrorism) is breaking out all over the globe. Iran?s surge into fundamentalism?s nuclear club is one intolerable thought?Osama?s dirty-litt...

It's pretty bad when a Zionist Muslim - one in a million - has to be used of God to warn our professing Christian president who is sinning against God, Israel and the United St...