The Mealy Mouthed Media

by | Jan 30, 2005 | POLITICS

The enraged speeches and street disorders across the country that accompanied the inauguration of President Bush may tell us more than we want to know about what is happening to this country. The media dignify these outbursts by calling them “protests” but...

Should We “Save Jobs”?

by | Jan 29, 2005 | POLITICS

Now that the elections are over, there’s little political gain for demagoguery about jobs, but let’s prepare ourselves for the next time. Losing a job means a financial crunch and readjustment regardless of the source of job loss. If it’s not from an...

Western Media: Fourth Estate or Fifth Column?

by | Jan 28, 2005 | POLITICS

There are still people in the mainstream media who profess bewilderment that they are accused of being biased. But you need to look no further than reporting on the war in Iraq to see the bias staring you in the face, day after day, on the front page of the New York...

Weaker Than We Think

by | Jan 26, 2005 | POLITICS

“On Sept. 11, one in 3,000 New Yorkers perished, but in the same year, over one in 1,000 urbanites were murdered in three major cities in the Western Hemisphere alone,” according to Russell Seitz in his article “Weaker Than We Think” in The...

Social Insecurity

by | Jan 25, 2005 | POLITICS

The latest liberal spin on Social Security is that there is no problem. Of course, there is no problem with any obligation if you are willing to welsh when it comes time to pay it. Politically, the bottom line of this approach is that President Bush’s plan is...

Medical Lawsuits

by | Jan 23, 2005 | POLITICS

When a friend told me recently that he was going to undergo a painful medical procedure to see if he has cancer, it reminded me of a time years ago when I faced a similar prospect. The testing procedure in my case would have been both painful and with some risk of...