President Obama and the Egyptian Riots

(January 28, 2011)   What hypocrisy of the Obama administration to tell the Egyptian government to allow peaceful demonstration by its people. There's nothing peaceful about those demonstrations, and Obama does not listen to his own people. Most Americans do not want Obama's health care bill, but Obama couldn't care less.

Obama! Listen to your own people!

ObamaCare

(December 18, 2010)   The Obama administration's argument that an individual who doesn't buy insurance is engaging in a form of economic activity that crosses state lines is a preposterous line of reasoning that can be argued for just about any industry.

Every American that does not buy a car, for example, is keeping car prices from decreasing across the country, hurting car manufacturers and dealers as well as related industries -- car parts, tires, windshield wipers, etc. Should the government force every American to buy a car?

The Obama administration, which has difficulty halting its own runaway deficit, is in no position to dictate "wining strategies" to private industry.

New UN "Space Ambassador"

(September 29, 2010)   Now that the UN will assign an official, Mazlan Othman, for space affairs, which is long overdue, it needs to plan ahead. This new frontier presents some interesting questions.

* To become a member of the UN, would the leader of an alien nation have to be an intergalactic despot, or is oppressing his own planet good enough?

* If UN officials are bribed with currency from another galaxy, is that still illegal?

* If an extraterrestrial civilization claims they were here first, will all new construction on earth be halted?

* If there's a conflict between two galaxies and neither one is Jewish, how will the UN decide which one to condemn?

* If corrupt UN officials are tried and convicted by an extraterrestrial tribunal, can New York reclaim an empty building?

Mazlan Othman has a lot of work ahead of her.

Hamas Slaughter of Israelis

(September 7, 2010)   It's time Israel recognized Hamas as an elected government and treated the murder of four Israelis on Tuesday, August 31, as a declaration of war. Israel has to stop blowing up houses and giving warnings. Palestinians who encourage and foster terrorism by celebrating the slaughter of Israelis can hardly be seen as innocent civilians. Israel needs to go into Gaza and wipe out Hamas once and for all. Anything less would be a crime against its own people.

Building a Mosque Near Ground Zero

(August 8, 2010)   Any attempt to build a mosque near the World Trade Center grounds by individuals associated, even if at this point only by religion, with those who attacked our country on 9/11 - and are still very much at war with us - should at least be given the same scrutiny we give individuals boarding an airplane. No one accuses all airline passengers of being terrorists; the point is to ensure that some do not have nefarious intentions.

By the same token, it's not religious discrimination to demand that all details of the finances and affiliations of the builders of the mosque be formally submitted for scrutiny.

The freedom of religion envisioned by the forefathers of this country was not intended to allow for the festering of hatred under the guise of religion. Neither was it intended to tolerate incitement of potentially catastrophic behavior. To allow the mosque to be built without thorough scrutiny in the name freedom of religion would turn us into our enemies' greatest useful idiots.