What in the world is going on here?

The GOP presidential primary campaign has been more like an undeclared war, with constant verbal battles being fought between the candidates, accompanied by shots heard around the world by their "unconnected" Political Action Committees.

These competing PACs have some things in common;...

It's the morning of the last day of the year 2011 A.D., but not for many Jews. A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which means "in the year of our Lord" and that intones Jesus. Instead it's the last day of the year 2011 C.E., which is the more secular-sounding designation...

Since the start of the GOP presidential campaign, stalwart candidates have fallen away like hair from worn and weary follicles. Gone are Thad McCotter, Tim Pawlenty and Herman Cain, the latter now wants to be Secretary of Defense, but not under Obama. There have also been several potential candidates who...

The cruel, cold months of December and January bring warmth to the hearts of college football fans everywhere -- but only if their Division I team is involved in one of the thirty-five scheduled "major" college bowl games.

Each bowl's selection committee scouts the possible teams for both the match-ups,...

Those in power and those who deem themselves powerful, may have finally discovered that there is a preamble to the U.S. Constitution that reads, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote...

The headlines on Oct. 10 read "Extremist violence expanding in Israel." The story was about Jewish extremists who vandalized Muslim mosques and farmlands within the State of Israel proper. The fanatics also spray painted "Death to the Arabs" in both Muslim and Christian cemeteries, and did so immediately after the...

Why is it that insane and inane narishkayt (Yiddish for nonsense) continues to permeate societies everywhere? In Norway, one man's ideologically inspired insanity wreaked havoc in a peaceful nation, while the United States suffers from a disturbing and disruptive ideological confrontation between 535 legislators and the President. Sadly, both situations...

I have no desire to be a teenager again complete with a face full of zits, a changing voice, sweaty palms around members of the opposite sex, and always wondering why. Perhaps I have been resurrected because I still wonder why.

For instance, why is there such an emotional clamor...

Ron Artest, a 6-foot 7-inch 260-lb. basketball player on the Los Angeles Lakers, was given a flagrant foul when he walloped relatively diminutive 6-foot 175-lb. Dallas Maverick guard J.J. Barea with only 24.4 seconds remaining in the Lakers dismal second straight playoff loss. Artest, an African American, said...

My father was a tax accountant who never had the opportunity to garner a CPA designation and become a Certified Public Accountant. He was never 'certified' in the dictionary sense that "he had passed a test or achieved a certain standard," nor did he meet the second definition of being...

Historically, the first Sunday in February has been set aside by more than 100 million Americans who spend the day ensconced in front of their television sets to watch a confrontation between two groups of people. That was the case once again on February 6 during Super Bowl XLV; an...

Our divided federal government is facing a nearly $14 trillion national debt which grows exponentially by the minute. If you have a strong constitution (not the one with a capital "C" that the Tea Party recently discovered and commandeered as only their own) then go to http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html...

After being inundated by countless and misleading television commercials and far too many and unwanted fliers sating our mail boxes, the electorate is exhausted by the onslaught of material and by the lack of substance that comes with them. During these final cam-pain days, the perpetrators are intruding into my...

October in California is fundraising time and if you are on any Republican Party's mailing list you'll be receiving pleas for contributions from two political neophytes, billionaire gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and senatorial candidate, millionaire Carly Fiorina. If you are on a Democratic mailing list, you'll be hearing from two...

What is desperately needed is an alternative plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian situation, for all current and past proposals have turned out to be fruitless.

My next-door neighbor, a former professional athlete, just became the father of his third daughter. He's a young man in his 30s, and although he...

You won't learn here that Tiger Woods was a regular reader of the former Craigslist "erotic services" advertisements that became "adult services" in May 2009 and are now labeled "censored." Unlike President Nixon who would thusly preface his usual innuendo-skewed description of an opponent or an enemy, "I'm not saying...

Yiddish is back in style perhaps personified with the movie entitled "Dinner for Schmucks." According to three accredited Yiddish language sources the term "schmuck," "shmok," or "shmuck" is in no way a positive description of anyone's character. The least derisive definitions include a self-made fool, a boob, a jerk, and...

For too many years in too many quarters, the name of the game has been blame. It seems that more and more people refuse to accept the responsibility for and the consequences of their actions. It's nothing new for politicians as witnessed by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, who among other...

With the oil spill once again announced as "under control," amidst the chaos, confusion, and the loss of livelihoods, sea life, bird life and beaches, there are some who are trying to benefit from this man-made catastrophe.

We are not now referring to the two major political parties who use...

Nowadays, there seems to be an inordinate amount of kvetching -- outrageous complaining -- about most everything and it emanates from all directions and political stripes. Complaining is an inalienable right although it is not specifically mentioned in the First Amendment. Kvetching is quite legitimate in a world with so...