Politics

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 propa... 05/13/2007

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 ge... 05/09/2007

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 26.... 04/27/2007

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 i... 04/23/2007

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 shoul... 04/21/2007

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 let... 04/05/2007

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), h... 03/22/2007

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 a... 12/06/2006

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 thi... 12/06/2006

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 the... 12/06/2006

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, Cali... 12/06/2006

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 Jerusalem... 12/06/2006

"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 con... 12/06/2006

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 that... 12/06/2006

(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 significan... 12/06/2006