The Iconoclast
Sklaroff and Bender: The Senate Must Sue Obama to Block the Iran TREATY
President Obama at American University August 5, 2015 When we published “How Best to Overturn the Iran Nuclear Pact” in the August 2015 New English Review, we reviewed several options. […]
Why We Love Falstaff
Perfection is not of this world, and indeed we have difficulty even in conceiving of what it could be. We suspect that it might be boring and therefore, paradoxically, imperfect. […]
The Senate Should Vote on the Real Iran
The immortal Marx — Groucho not Karl — was in Tehran, Iran on August 23, 2015 when he heard the Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammed Javed Zarif say to British Foreign Secretary […]
Rotherham Sex Scandal: More Than 160 Police Officers Under Investigation For Ignoring Victims
French intelligence fears Islamist ‘missile strike on airliner’ or 9/11-style attack
French security forces are bracing for the eventuality of civil unrest and fear there could be a missile strike on a passenger airliner or a September 11-style attack, according to […]
Senators Who Took Money From Iran Lobby, Support Nuke Deal
Daniel Greenfield writes in
Is Polyamory Next?
As I’ve said all along, same sex marriage opens the door to polygamy and the destruction of the nuclear family which is the foundation of our culture. Robert P. George writes […]
Nearly 200 Former Generals and Admirals Sign Letter Opposing Iran Nuke Deal
Former Marine Commandant Gen. Charles Krulak Nearly 200 former generals and admirals signed a letter sent to Congress rejecting the Obama nuclear pact with Iran. Many general and flag officers served under […]
The French-German Disconnect
A recent article in the French newspaper Le Monde drew attention to an important difference between the French and the Germans. The French, said the author, think that the government […]
Does Israel have a “No Choice” Military Option for Iran’s Nuclear Program?
In 1964, I sat in a darkened movie theater in Washington, DC with a fellow Army Intelligence officer watching Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant dark satire film on how to live with […]
National Dog Day
King Salman Talks of Peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel
It was a gratifying surprise, and a sign of the changing political configurations in the Middle East that the retired Saudi major general, Anwar Eshki, director of the Middle East […]
Could a Trash Crisis In Lebanon Bring Hezbollah to Power?
Trash bins in Beirut, Lebanon Source: Daily Star Trash has been piling up in the streets of Beirut for nearly two months. This weekend violence erupted in the Grand […]
Mother Sends Son to Somalia to Escape Gangs in Minnesota
That’s the story anyway. Unfortunately, he was
Trump Bashes $4 Billion In IRS Refunds To Illegals
Robert W. Wood writes inbillions in fraudulent refunds. The recipe goes like this. First, get a Social Security Number, then claim the Earned Income Tax Credit for the last three years. Then, wait […]
The Holocaust is Still With Us
On August 21, 2015 the Israeli born actress Natalie Portman, who won an Oscar in 2011 for her role as an obsessed ballerina in the film Black Swan, made a […]
