There is a little known people called the Druze, their religion an offshoot of Islam, residing in parts of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. What makes them unique is that they adapt to the country in which they live; in Israel, they support the Jewish state, in Syria, the Arab country....

The president has been accused of class warfare for trying to raise the taxes on the wealthy. His reply was "This is not class warfare, this is math." My observation is a switch on the old "Holy Roman Empire" critique ("It isn't Holy, it's not Roman and it's no Empire"):...

We have just observed the 10th anniversary of 9/11; in less than three months, we shall mark the 70th year since Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to December 7th, 1941, as a "date that will live in infamy." Both solemn occasions call for more than memory; they cry...

The Bible relates a fantastic story going back over five millennia ago. Babylon had subjugated Sumer and wanted to build the highest structure in the world. They called it the tower of Babel. In their Semitic language it meant "gate of God." To the non-Semitic Sumerians it connoted "babbling" onomatopoeically....

There it was on the cover of Time Magazine, dated July 25, 2011, in big, bold red letters: "The End of the World!" Perhaps Harold Camping was partially correct in his prediction. He said May 21, 2011 would mark the end of the world. He missed it by two months,...

"Too few, too late" was the majority's reaction to President Obama's reduction of surge forces in Afghanistan. As of today, he has promised to remove 10,000 troops by the end of this year and an additional amount by the end of 2012, leaving 68,000 in the country. Why? For years,...

For over two and a half months, NATO forces have been bombarding Libya, ostensibly to protect its citizen protestors, undeniably to topple Gaddafi. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been massacring thousands of his countrymen; countless others have sought to escape his clutches by seeking asylum in foreign nations. Yemen is...

Just as President Obama was riding the crest of his newly re-energized popularity from capturing Osama bin Laden came "the rebuke." Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was seen publicly rebuking the American president on his home turf after Mr. Obama had called for "the return to the pre-1967 borders" to...

There are only three Patriarchs named in the Bible: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In the two millennia, from the creation of Adam until the birth of Abraham, only Enoch and Noah were called righteous men. Yet, even they both failed the ultimate test of leadership. They cared only for their...

Two earth-shaking events have dominated the headlines lately. First, the riots and rebellions in the Arab world, starting with Tunisia, spreading to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and now, unrest growing in Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia -- man-made disasters. Second, the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan -- catastrophes...