The National Rifle Association which announced it had enrolled 100,000 new members after the national tragedy that took place in Newtown, Conn., is apparently so strong in Congress that, according to the New York Times of January 10:

The White House has calculated that a ban...

In his December 26 New York Times editorial, Tom Friedman wrote in support of former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel and the possibility that he will be chosen by President Barack Obama as Secretary of Defense. He stated: "So, yes, Hagel is out of the mainstream. That is exactly...

The war against the Jews -- and against the State of Israel -- continues unabated.

For the past year, Israel has been subjected to rocket bombardments directed at its cities including Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. A million Israeli civilians in Southern Israel had their lives disrupted as 8,000 rockets...

I wrote the beginning of this commentary in New York-Presbyterian Hospital where I was admitted on December 4. I had the flu, despite my having received an earlier flu shot. Fortunately, my flu was treated and is now gone. I am under the care of my longtime cardiologist, Dr. Joe...

Every now and then, there is a story that actually happened and could only happen in New York City. On November 14, 2012, a very cold night, while New York City police officer Lawrence DePrimo was on patrol in Times Square, he came across a homeless man who was barefoot...

I was struck by an article which appeared in the New York Times on November 19th reporting on the position of the British government on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Almost everyone acknowledges that the Hamas government in Gaza started the war, except for their Muslim supporters of...

I have never read a more biased editorial than the New York Times editorial of November 18th, entitled, "New Hope on Immigration." It advocates, as it has for years, providing amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now residing within the borders of the United States.

The Times,...

President Barack Obama won reelection in a blowout. Some will ask how I can say "blowout" when he narrowly won the popular vote. President Obama won by a margin of about three million votes, winning 62,085,892 votes, compared with Mitt Romney's 58,777,012 votes. The president, however, handily won the electoral...

After President Amadinejad of Iran and Iran's theocratic Islamist state, the greatest threat to Israel is Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Turkey's Islamist government. This is surprising because Turkey and Israel used to be close allies. The rift between the countries is directly linked to the ascendancy of...

On Sunday, October 28, at 4 p.m., I joined the parishioners at St. James Cathedral Basilica in Brooklyn in honoring my friend and their fellow congregant, Frank Macchiarola. His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had bestowed upon Frank the Papal Honor of Knight Commander of the Holy Order of St. Gregory...

I met with President Obama on September 21, 2011, after I supported Bob Turner, a Republican who won the Congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner. That seat had been held by a Democrat for nearly 100 years in prior elections and was the congressional district with the largest Jewish population...

In a full-page editorial this past Sunday, October 14, the New York Times publicly revealed its new position on our remaining in Afghanistan until December 2014 as proposed by the Obama administration. The opening paragraph of the editorial states that "it is time for United States forces to...

I have no doubt that after his debate with President Obama, Mitt Romney was in a celebratory mood.

No one expected that the first presidential debate would be a game changer. Debates rarely have a lasting or significant impact. Further, to have what we had during the first debate...

On September 27, 2012, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel delivered a speech to the United Nations. That speech is well worth reading, if someone is interested in world events and, in particular, a discussion of why it is a matter of life and death whether Iran is...

In a New York Times interview published on September 23, 2012, the new president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, makes his demand for a change in U.S. foreign policy if Egypt is to have a friendly relationship with the U.S. He states that the U.S. would have to give...

The New York Times of September 17, reported that,

"[i]n Iran, the commander of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, took the unusual step of holding a news conference on Sunday to warn that 'nothing will remain' in Israel if it or any other nation launches...

Last week, I was unable to send my commentary because I was in the hospital suffering from anemia requiring three blood transfusions. The reason for the condition was that I had hemorrhaged in my mouth as a result of dental implants and Coumadin, a blood thinner. That affected other parts...

Last week, the New York Times in an article authored by James Dao and Andrew N. Lehren laid out the impact of the Afghan war on the families of those fighting in a way that only the Times is able to do. God bless the Times for the article and...

Last week, a Russian court sentenced three feminist punk performers who call themselves "Pussy Riot" to prison for two years. The three women were charged with "hooliganism." The graveness of the charge was described by the New York Times of August 17:

The case began in February...

Mitt Romney has done this country a great service by selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate. He has changed the nature of the election from one that is about who is the best candidate to lead us out of the aftermath of the Great Recession to one that concerns...