If there ever was an award for a big time disingenuous statement promulgated by any part of our government I would nominate the following emanating from the CIA.

This is just a part of their statement:

"It is not the policy or practice of the CIA to mislead Congress."

In order to confuse those who from time to time come across something that I write, I have decided to deal in one article with some of the "transgressions" of the recent Bush administration, some of the "transgressions" of those from Wall Street, and let me not omit some of...

I wrote this in early 2004 about a year before I started posting on Huffington and came across it today.

As a soon-to-be 72 year old, I look at what's going on about marriages of gay and lesbian couples with amazement and strangely, at the same time, with...

Alex Lunkin, a true intellectual. was born in Rumania in the late eighteen nineties and became my friend thirty or so years ago. He would often say to me something like "Norman, if you continue to have expectations of reasonableness and sanity in the world, you are doomed."

As...

As a kid growing up in the Bronx in the early thirties I certainly learned a lot, and sadly, most of it was wrong! It still amazes me that little has changed for me in this regard over so many years.

I was always having "traditional" disputes with my...

I am "an old Jewish white man." I am also Father, Grandfather, and an ex Husband. How else or who else could I be?

I have an opinion about everything! A few of these follow. I have publicly verbalized almost all of my opinions, and it...

Looking back to my growing up in the Bronx in the early thirties I now realize that my life, to a certain extent, has been controlled by fear. As a young person, were I not to do what was expected of me I could expect any or all of the...

Dictionary.com defines the word fear as:
A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.



I of course will begin this with something that has...

Through the magic of the internet I recently received the following:

Hello Friends,

Attached is an invitation to the 1st Annual U.S. Senator Feinstein's Los Angeles District Office Open House. Although the Senator is in DC...

First, I will quote from the Bible, something I rarely do:

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged!
Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone!

Dear Newt Gingrich;

At one time I would have held you in reasonably high regard even though you are a Republican....

There is a very old story that is set on a freezing treeless plain about 150 years ago during the coldest winter on record in the Ukraine.

A bird, near freezing, lands on a cart path near a steaming pile of manure. Fortuitously, a Ukrainian peasant happens by, sees the...

It was over thirty years ago that one of my very senior executives had told a humongous lie to our company management. When he and I had a conversation about it he said, "Norman, yes I lied to them but I would never lie to you."

Of...

As a 76 year old smart ass from New York, I continue to wonder why we as a nation tolerated both wars started by the Bush administration. This is an irrelevant comment for me to make for this article, yet I continue to wonder. Recently, "they" blamed Nancy Pelosi for...

"Pernicious" is defined as: "ruinous; injurious; hurtful; malicious; damaging; causing insidious harm."

I received the following article written by a man I respect, trying I expect to be "humorous." To me it is pernicious and not the least bit funny.

Subject Security threats in Europe:

The British are feeling the...

As an Electrical Engineer who has functioned in the business of Television for almost 50 years, it surprises most people that I have been fascinated by the study of economics for a long time.

I became interested in it when I heard President Eisenhower caution our country of the dangers...

Barack Obama was indeed elected President of the United States in 2008 with almost seventy million votes.

I have recently looked all over and I could not find even one vote cast for that great American, Rush Limbaugh. In fact I could not find his name mentioned on the...

Nicholas Kristoff in The New York Times calls for a "Truth Commission" to look into the "torture" issue. He presents a series of irrelevant prior situations to support his position.

It would appear to me that a few of our laws as well as treaties have been broken....

An abomination is defined as anything greatly disliked or abhorred: a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc. For the purpose of this article I will accept that torture is illegal in the United States and violates international laws. Torture is indeed an abomination.

Former Vice President Cheney is...

What is America to me
A name, a map, or a flag I see
A certain word, democracy
What is America to me

Lyrics by: Abel Meeropol

Well into my 77th year I continue to be an idealist and I continue to be...

I am a "non sequitor" specialist.

I do infer improper conclusions that do not logically follow the premise of whatever. That great American Rush Limbaugh has recently discovered another societal inequity and written about it in a way that is an enormous non sequitor.

"I...