Category: Reflections

By the time you read this, the shouting will most likely be over between Hillary and Obama, so this question won’t be of much more …

Amidst the grand hoopla that is the current election campaign, a recent report in the Financial Times of London (Jan. 11) went largely unnoticed in …

Hearing Dubya propose a “growth package” on January 18, I got the queasy feeling that he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. …

At the end of 2007, the New York Times announced that it had hired Bill Kristol as an op- ed columnist. A curious development, to …

On Dec. 3 of last year, the United States government released an intelligence report stating that Iran was not in fact building a nuclear bomb. …

When art imitates life, it’s unsurprising; but when life imitates art, it’s at least unusual. When Governor Schwarzenegger pitches his new healthcare scheme, he seems …

Hearing Dubya give an unrehearsed press conference in Israel just after Three Kings Day, I realized that, wonder of wonders, he might have finally grown …

Charles Cashmore, one of O.J. Simpson’s co-defendants, will plead guilty to a reduced charge in exchange for testimony against the disgraced foot- ball legend and …

On Jan. 1 of this year, the very first baby boomer- Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the first baby born on Jan. 1, 1946 – turned 62 and …

A loathsome story out of Greenburgh, N.Y., where the property taxes have risen so high that elderly widows on fixed incomes can no longer afford …