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The dilemma will be resolved when the states are made responsible for paying Social Security and Medicare benefits. Strapped for cash, the ...

Almost daily, I read in the paper about how costly Social Security and Medicare are and how their costs will rise in the future. In a satiri...

A priest, a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar and the bartender says: "What is this, some kind of a joke?"

From participants in the rescue at the airplane that ditched in the river yesterday: “Basically, let me tell you, we were in the right place...

For many years, Israel has suffered at the hands of hostile Arab neighbors. At first, the Israelis fought back and smote the Arabs mightily...

In today's WaPo, Charles Krauthammer published a column entitled "Moral Clarity in Gaza." He sided with Israel. According to ...

GM'S FANTASY RECOVERY PLAN By DAN CALABRESE YOU know that $12 billion bailout, er, "bridge loan" we asked for? Can we make tha...

I watched Obama's speech and he spoke well - but he did not inspire confidence. I watched the speech on CNBC and as Obama was speaking t...

Sundays NYTimes Business section had 2 worth-while articles: The New Deal Didn’t Always Work, Either , at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/...

If the current crisis is of a scale comparable to the depression of the 1930's, it is possible that the Government has not yet done enou...

The bail-out would have cost $700 billion. That's too much, right? Defeating the bail-out cost American stock owners much more. On Septe...

A quote from Fiddler on the Roof - it applies to Barack Obama for many of his supporters. The dreamers who believed that Obama would be a ...

See set of 3 photos .

. . . a great catch ?

The cover of the current issue of New York Magazine juxtaposes a photo of Hillary with a boldface "Superstar." I have read the New...

In a NYTimes article entitled, "Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby," Joe Nocera spanks Jerry Yang for rejecting Microsoft's of...

I can't get over the fact that Russert's doctors did not repair his coronary arteries and were not able to convince him to eat a lot...

See Nassau County Art Museum .

What makes it utterly incomprehensible is that Howard Dean demonstrated in 2004 how to rise from small state obscurity to national prominenc...

According to an article by renowned astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, it can be mathematically shown that if the General Election were h...

Bob Herbert, a respected op-ed columnist on the NYTimes has backed Obama from the beginning and with great enthusiasm. He has also ripped b...

Barack Obama’s potential partner-in-summiting (without preconditions, but with preparations) has issued more soothing commentary on world af...

Obama supporters, who seem to be very willing to criticize Hillary have not even begun to define what Obama will accomplish as President tha...

If Obama had studied Chapter 3 of my book posted on the web (no charge, no advertising) before he shot his mouth off about meeting Ahmadinej...

Rockefeller family members want Exxon-Mobil to move beyond oil and do all kinds of things that the company does not know how to do simply be...

Considering how poorly prepared Kennedy was, why did he take the risk of meeting Nikita S. Khrushchev, who was well-known to be a tough Comm...

A group of artists is painting portraits of military service people killed in Iraq, based on photographs and information provided by close f...

See today's Krauhammer article in the WaPo, entitled Obama's Metastatic Gaffe . This is just heating up. Expect the Republicans t...

See article and picture in WaPo article . Maybe our military should also hire a major designer so our guys can look good too. Then, in the f...

What Kennedy said: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” Widely quoted. What Happened Kennedy’s one pr...