Posted on: February 5th, 2003

Tell Us Again About Liberal Patriotism - The date: Dec. 27. The setting: Neal Cavuto's Fox News program. Liberal commentator Ellen Ratner was chatting with Brenda Buttner, who was sitting in for Cavuto. The gist of the conversation, until Ratner briefly took off her mask of civility, was that President Bush appears almost impossible to beat in 2004.

Posted on: January 30th, 2003

A state of their own, for a people who overwhelmingly approve of, and educate their children to become, suicide bombers.

Posted on: January 30th, 2003

Basically, what happened was that while everyone thought Lieberman would make Al Gore and the Clintonite Democrats kosher, it was Gore and the Dems who were making Lieberman non-kosher.

Posted on: January 30th, 2003

Erudite and outspoken, Steven Plaut is a frequent contributor to The Jewish Press whose essays, many of which have appeared in this front-page space, always generate enthusiastic reader feedback.

Posted on: January 29th, 2003

The Media Research Center is out with its annual "Best Notable Quotables" list of what it calls "the year's worst reporting." Here are just a few examples of the liberal bias and stupidity that come pouring out of the mouths and word processors of media types on a daily basis. (Visit www.mrc.org for the complete list.)

Posted on: January 23rd, 2003

Singer goes to great lengths trying to whitewash Sharon, stating that "When he agrees that eventually there will or must be a Palestinian state, he is dealing with the government's responsibility to decide what to say now."

Posted on: January 23rd, 2003

I resent the fact that the murderer Arafat is continuously placed on a pedestal created by your falsely named organization as you continue to vilify my own flesh and blood.

Posted on: January 23rd, 2003

But the al-Safi resolution should be neither obscured nor forgotten by the American people, because its passage exposes so much that is wrong and vicious about the American Library Association.

Posted on: January 23rd, 2003

I have long had a pet peeve about the vulgar misuse and distortion of the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam (repair of the world) by assimilationist Jewish liberals in the United States and elsewhere.

Posted on: January 22nd, 2003

Here we are fourteen weeks into our series on Jewish voting habits, and the Monitor admits to having no single satisfactory answer to why Jews are still, after all these years, in such utter thrall to the Democratic party.

Posted on: January 17th, 2003

I am old enough to recall December 7, 1941 - the day that will live in infamy, when Japan stabbed us in the back.

Posted on: January 17th, 2003

The Pianist is a testament to the indefatigable spirit of life that refuses to go gentle into the night.

Posted on: January 17th, 2003

G-d's first dietary regime was strictly vegetarian (actually vegan - no animal products at all) (Genesis 1:29).

Posted on: January 17th, 2003

Consider a country in which the minister of
justice prepares an official ''speech code'' that
delineates the boundaries of permissible
speech, and where violators may be sent to
prison.

Posted on: January 15th, 2003

Before concluding our series on Jewish voting habits in next week's Monitor, we devote this week's installment to some of the more colorful responses we've received from die-hard Democrats. Wear your helmets.

Posted on: January 10th, 2003

The idea that history could repeat itself, which underlies many experts warnings about complacency in the face of the probability of new terrorist attacks, was strongly stressed by Prof. Rubin in his remarks.

Posted on: January 10th, 2003

Having been elected three times as mayor of the City of New York, I have been the beneficiary of this country's generosity and freedom from bigotry, and I will be eternally grateful.

Posted on: January 10th, 2003

It is impossible to understand politics in the world today without grasping the fundamental fact that there exist two different Lefts. I propose that the two be referred to by everyone as the Stupid Left and the Satanic Left.

Posted on: January 8th, 2003

Al Gore's surprise choice in August 2000 of Joseph Lieberman as his running mate electrified American Jews, and seemed to foreclose any possibility that George W. Bush would even approach the poor numbers put up among Jewish voters by his father in 1992 (15 percent) and Bob Dole in 1996 (16 percent).

Posted on: January 3rd, 2003

I'm sure G-d appreciates being used as a political football.