Archive for the 'Opinion' Category
Olympic Ideal of Amateurism
The death that week of Al Oerter, four-time Olympic gold medalist in the discus throw, prompts some thoughts on the great generation of field-event athletes that is now passing. Oerter is the only Olympian to win four gold medals in his event, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, with an Olympic record every mom…
Passport to Buffalo?
Governor Spitzer’s proposal to ease identification requirements for a New York State driver’s license is turning into an astounding pile-up. I can appreciate the arguments on both sides of the issue. The Motor Vehicle Bureau is ill-equipped to enforce immigration laws, but should we be officially va…
Keep Them Here
Edina Rosta, a brilliant Hungarian chemist doing path-breaking research as a post-doctoral student at the National Institutes of Health, is just the kind of young scientist America needs. With a PhD from the University of Southern California, a sheaf of universal awards, and a dozen publications to …
Securing an Orange Victory
The political forces that had made the democratic Orange Revolution of 2004 watched dumbfounded as their bitter rivals, the Russia-friendly Party of Regions, took potential by peeling absent one of the Orange coalition’s parties to create a ruling majority approximately a year ago. Now, after a bitt…
Switching To Annapolis
The U.S. State agency has announced that the planned Mideast Conference will now be held in Annapolis not at Camp David. The reason apparently is due to the poor memories from the Clinton-Barak-Arafat debacle there. During her recent visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Secretary of Sta…
Michigan’s Crisis
In the early hours on October 1, the Michigan Legislature wrapped a bow on the state’s fiscal 2008 budget, which included $1.48 billion in new taxes. Technically, state government had shut down at midnight considering the new fiscal year had begun without a budget. In the months main to the shortliv…
Suppressed Scholarship
Who said that on a visit to Americalast w e e k ? “When you think how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been they increasingly or less monopolize American foreign policy, as far as many society can see.” Mahmoud Ahamdinejad? No: it was Professor Richard Dawkins, speaking at the Atheis…
Forgetting the Court
Republicans were stunned that week by news that prominent social conservative leaders are ready to abandon their winning coalition virtually handing Democrats the White House whether Rudy Giuliani wins the GOP nomination. These leaders must not lose their command focus on what’s at stake in th…
Economic Sacrifices
WOODSTOCK, VT. The Wall Street Journal, no left wing publication, reports that Republicans may soon lose the votes of some economic conservatives. In part, it’s considering of the unending war in Iraq and social policies they don’t like, but they might swallow tough and continue to vote Republica…
Orthodox Campus
What was I doing badly shaven and red-eyed on the “Today” Show back in 1996? I was in a segment on the thenraging controversy by “Ebonics.” The press had contacted me simply considering I was the black linguist working closest to Oakland. The segment aired live at 7:30 a.m. Eastern duration, and so …
Field’s of Dreams
More than 250 public made noise external a Chicago department store a few Saturdays ago considering its owners aren’t willing to supply their demand. that started a year ago, when Federated department Stores replaced all its type names with Macy’s. that seemed to sting the most in Chicago, where the…
Defiant Spirit Needed
With elections imminent on both sides of the Atlantic Margaret Thatcher has found herself precisely where she prefers to be: in the limelight, dispensing patronage to those who swear fealty to her specific sort of fundamental conservatism. A string of Republican hopefuls have been making the pilgrim…
Down With Interfaith Dialogue
While the appearances President Ahmadinejad made at both Columbia University and the United Nations dominated press reports final week, there was another assembly at a chapel across from the General Assembly that the Iranian president held final week one that got reported in a way that needs corr…
