Freedom’s Defenders

Memorial Day is always a solemn occasion, but especially so this year, because we have so recently experienced this day’s meaning first-hand. We have seen it in two different ways: we have seen the courage of our troops on the battlefields of Afghanistan —...

In Washington, Hindsight is 20/400

There are serious reasons for criticizing President Bush’s war against terrorism. One reason involves his refusal to support Israel’s self-defense against the openly terrorist organization, the P.L.O. What’s good for the Taliban should be good for...

The Purpose of a Palestinian State

The April 1 edition of Newsweek carried the ominous headline: How will Israel survive? Most of us thought we’d never have to hear the question again. But with psychopaths cashing in on Iraqi-sponsored life insurance policies at the expense of innocent Israeli...

Options as Expenses

Standard & Poor’s announced this week that it’s taking the revolutionary step of including the expense of employee stock options when it calculates companies’ operating earnings. This is revolutionary because current accounting rules don’t...

From Flanders Fields to Roberts Ridge

To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. — John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields,” 1915 We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows...

The Strange Phenomenon of Black Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism in America, according to a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, stands at an all-time low. But alarmingly, the survey found blacks three to four times more likely than non-blacks to be anti-Semitic.