Scott Holleran

If the latest gadget or a pair of socks isn't likely to tickle your Father's fancy, a classic book may be perfect for Dad on Father's Day. As Mark Twain once said: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Whether Dad...

I met Elian Gonzalez during a visit to the Miami house which had become the flashpoint for a profound philosophical conflict--days before his pre-dawn seizure on Saturday, April 22, 2000. Springing from his uncle's house with the exuberance of a child unleashed on a...

A recent trip to the nation's capital was a sobering and rewarding reality check. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on America, Washington, DC, has endured anthrax-laced mailings to Congress, sniper shootings, and a periodic deployment of missiles to shoot down...

President Bush issued an executive order declaring a national emergency with respect to Iran --- exactly two years ago on Thursday, [March 13]. Bush declared: "The actions and policies of the [theocratic] Government of Iran ... threaten the national security, foreign...

While one might have concluded that the weekend arrest of Sept. 11 attack coordinator Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was a fundamental blow to America's enemies, such a conclusion would be a grievous mistake. Attorney General John Ashcroft, citing the capture, boldly...

This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider its ruling striking down the Pledge of Allegiance. They were right to do so; the court's decision is consistent with the nation's founding principles, which are casually discarded by religious...

"Let's Roll" became a rallying cry in the wake of the worst attack on America. The phrase, uttered by Todd Beamer, one of the passengers aboard flight 93, before he and other passengers charged the cockpit, was the perfect calling for an angry, wounded nation. "Let's...

Memorial services will be held during the next few days to mark the anniversary of the execution of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who is believed to have been killed on Feb. 21, 2002. Remembering Pearl--seized while researching shoe bomber Richard Reid in...

President Bush has kept his promise to dispatch Secretary of State Colin Powell to make the case against Iraq before the United Nations -- and, by doing so, he has totally capitulated to the whims of world opinion. The premise of Powell's speech is that America must...

While the nation's pundits are praising the President for his State of the Union speech, conservatives are falling all over themselves lauding Bush for explaining why the weakest state sponsor of terrorism -- Iraq -- ought to be attacked. Pundits, conservatives and...

Speaking in Los Angeles recently, on the eve of his Likud Party victory in opposing a Palestinian state, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his now-familiar approach to the Middle East: moral clarity. Coming as Newsweek reports that the GOP is...

Fidel Castro's recent collapse was caught on television, where the 74-year-old dictator's security guards could be heard exclaiming: "Aguantalo, rapido!" The phrase, which means "Hold him up, quickly!" captures the essence of the dictator's numbered days -- a...

It finally happened: Elian Gonzalez has been reunited with his father. The President, the Attorney General, Congress, the media and a majority of the American people got the reunion they wanted at 5 a.m. last Saturday morning--at the point of a gun. For all the talk...

Elian Gonzalez's story continues to unfold like an opera: The daring escape from Cuba, the treacherous sea storm, and his mother's heroic struggle to fasten the 6-year-old to an inner tube before she drowned. As a brutal snowstorm brought the congressional quest for...

The new year begins as employees begin a process called open enrollment--when many employees designate a health plan through their employer. Unfortunately, most are forced to enroll in a managed care plan, i.e., an HMO or PPO. That's right: force actually lies at the...

The following is a letter sent by writer Scott Holleran of Glendale, California to the New York Times. Your Oct. 7, 1999 editorial, "The Fight for Patients' Rights," is insulting to the reader's intelligence. By claiming that House Republicans' attempts to expand...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh have been asked by Clinton to travel the country, in cooperation with the American Association of Retired Persons -- at government expense which may or may...