~ What The Holocaust Debate Is Really About ~
The recent attempted defrocking of a Catholic Bishop on a charge of “Holocaust denial” brings to the fore once again the need to review the history of World War II in a properly detached fashion. A horrible truth is that more than 55 million people died in that war and the overwhelming majority of them were not Jews. That is the holocaust we must all remember. In addition to those deaths, World War II caused the virtual destruction of Western Europe, and gave newborn communism, the invention of Jewish politicians in Russia, its chance to prove it did not work. The victory went to the best and most determined killers, and various victims tell their stories in their own ways. That is a dubious privilege of all those who suffered greatly. It gave no one the right to a story that cannot be examined in the pursuit of truth and honest scholarship.
March 1, 2009 – “Think big,” a local burglar once told me while we were kibitzing over a beer in a Chicago neighborhood bar.
“Yeah, he said, if you’re going to pull a score, make sure you go for the gold. If you get caught, you’re gonna do the same amount of time whether you steal a thousand dollars, or a million, so you might as well make it worth your while.”
Think big … steal big… Hey, alright!
March 1, 2009 - A leading “climate skeptic” met with the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment on February 25.th Dr. William Happer holds an endowed chair in physics at Princeton, served as the senior scientist at the Department of Energy—and was reportedly fired by then-Vice President Al Gore for disagreeing with Gore’s belief in man-made global warming.
Happer noted that climate change has long worried humans.
March 1, 2009 – I lived and worked in London in the late 1980s. One evening I attended a dinner party in the weeks leading up to the 1988 presidential election. In attendance were guests from several European nations.
During a conversation I shared my concerns over the outcome of the presidential race. When I finished speaking, an Italian guest leaned in my direction and chided me for my concerns. “You Americans are so silly,” he admonished. “You are worried over which capitalist to vote for: the Democrat or the Republican. In Italy we have real choices. Do we vote for the capitalist, the socialist or the communist?”
March 1, 2009 – The global warming hoax didn’t happen over night. It is generally dated from an appearance before Congress by Dr. James E. Hansen in 1988 predicting a dramatic rise in the Earth’s temperature based on the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. At that time, Dr. Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned that steps had to be taken quickly to reduce CO2 emissions.
Ever since then, Hansen has been active in his effort to convince everyone that he’s right and condemning anyone an opposing point of view.
March 1, 2009 – I could not watch Barack Obama’s recent speech before Congress on February 24. I tried, but after just a few minutes of watching, I gave up and went to do something else. So I did what I normally do, I waited until the text of the speech came out on the internet to take my time reading it, so I could think about what he said.
As I began to read through what Obama’s speechwriters had prepared for him, I was struck by the following statement, “What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more.”
March 1, 2009 – Our president has lofty goals. Under his tutelage, we will cure cancer, end our dependence on foreign oil, reform health care and guarantee higher education to everyone who wants it.
I would like to focus on something that the president has not addressed: illegal immigration and its impact on unemployment, job creation and our failing educational system. Until he is willing to acknowledge the obvious, our best efforts are doomed to fail.
March 1, 2009 - The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political repositioning which was reported as soon as Israel declared its unilateral ceasefire promised that Israel’s deadly bombs would shape a new political reality in the region.
In the aftermath, Hamas can confidently claim that its once indisputably ‘radical’ political position is no longer viewed as too extreme.
