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Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg arrives to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 18, 2022. Photo: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90

The Israeli Supreme Court violates democratic norms

The Court has too much power and too little oversight.

February 23, 2023

Jewish men carry Torah scrolls as they dance during Simchat Torah celebrations in Kfar Chabad on Sept. 28, 2021. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Respecting the Torah vs. respecting the Constitution

The Jewish celebration of the Torah offers an interesting comparison to the way Americans regard the Constitution, the foundation of the U.S. government system.

October 24, 2021

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the United States. Credit: NIAID-RML via Wikimedia Commons.

Health-care industry to the rescue

The United States is wounded, but it has weathered the Wuhan virus well. We have a lot to be thankful for and a lot to be proud of.

July 11, 2021

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, at a rally in Beit Lahiya, May 30, 2021. Credit: Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Iran exploits America’s weakness and Israel’s perceived weakness

For causes and six important aspects of the latest Hamas-Israel war.

June 13, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Jan. 28, 2021. Source: U.S. President Joe Biden/Facebook.

Western civilization is in peril

The Biden administration’s agenda of debunked policies bodes ill for the United States and its allies.

February 3, 2021

Detail of the preamble to the Constitution of the United States. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Time to win America’s multifront war

The United States is at the forefront of a global conflict more dangerous and difficult that any it has faced.

October 19, 2020

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known as George Orwell, the pen name under which he wrote his most famous works, "Animal Farm" and "1984." Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Time to heed George Orwell’s warning

In 2020, we see the rise of a totalitarian threat to the United States foreseen by Orwell in the 1940s.

October 13, 2020

A demonstrator at a George Floyd protest holds up a “Defund the Police” sign on June 5, 2020. Credit: Taymaz Valley via Wikimedia Commons.

Progressives are regressive

Key progressive policies actually embody Marxist, Socialist, Communist, authoritarian, atheist and anarchist ideas that have consistently failed wherever they have been tried.

September 22, 2020

On the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Credit: Piqsels.

Time to restructure the American education system

It is time to create a student’s “Bill of Rights” to protect our children, and the future of Western civilization, before it’s too late.

September 15, 2020