LaurenceJarvikOnline

From A Soldier's Mother (ht LGF): It is so horrible, sometimes you forget to look behind the picture. It's so simple, really. A chil...

Just a thought from a PhD in Film/TV. What I've seen as coverage of the Gaza crisis has pretty much resembled the "atrocity propaga...

From Al Jazeera : Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has said that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted a Franco-Egyptia...

From today's Wall Street Journal : In launching precision strikes against Hamas rocket launchers, headquarters, weapons depots, smugglin...

Roland Burris has law and precedent on his side, Franken does not. If Harry Reid weren't so offended at the B.O. of the American people,...

From the Jerusalem Post : One of my friends in the media was talking to me about how Israel is just as bad as Hamas - just as culpable as th...

From Haaretz; Analogy Two: A man comes into your home. He has a gun he made himself. He points it at your family. He fires, but misses. The ...

From today's Wall Street Journal: How does the West respond to the obvious exploitation of Palestinian refugees? Soon after my meeting w...

According to the Huffington Post (via MSNBC) . Not a bad idea, he had a good reputation in the Clinton years. Maybe Panetta could be the ne...

I was sad to hear that Senator Pell died while I was on vacation. He was a literal "good guy" who gave an unknown 25-year old novi...

From today's Washington Post: Living through change, people have often stuck with their oldest and most durable source of security: reli...

From the Wall Street Journal : If I may be permitted a personal narrative: In 1993, I had written the lead critique in Foreign Affairs of hi...

From Martin Kramer's Sandbox: In the fog of war, it isn't just the truth that falls casualty. So does common sense. Quite a few pund...

I received the following email from a member of the 6th Armored Division association, of which I am an honorary member: Got so many question...

All good wishes for 2009, to all our readers...

Here's Barack Obama's Christmas Message: Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama Holiday Radio Address December 27, 2008 Good mornin...

No shoe-throwing at President Bush's Hannukah reception this year , I'm sure, even though he held it a little early--December 15th,...

The mainstream American media may be turning a blind eye to the smoking guns in the Clinton donor list--but they are paying attention in Sri...

Indian mogul Amar Singh or Bill Clinton? According to Indian website Livemint.com , somebody is not telling the truth: New Delhi: Samajwadi ...

The paper pulls its punches by suggesting that there is a way out for the Clintons with a revised agreement with Obama--but in fact the logi...