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Nov 2, 2012, 12:16 PM

Obama’s hurricane shame

Can we just please for a minute put aside the knee-jerk heartwarming hogwash about how the disaster wrought by Hurricane Sandy is bringing out the best in New Yorkers, how they really shine when things get tough, yadda yadda...

Nov 1, 2012, 12:32 AM

How to wear an Obama Mask

NEW YORK -- Thank God this candle has Wifi... So, when asked how “Frankenstorm” (and believe me, this thing is f*cking hellacious) might affect the elections, Barack Obama replied “the election will take care of itself.” In the ominous and...

Oct 26, 2012, 2:29 AM

The pigeon-poop presidency

The other day while attending the DLD Tel Aviv conference, while investors of varied provenance and the technogeeks who covet their wallets were enjoying themselves as the start-up fest revved up Jaffa Port, I was, not for the first...

Oct 22, 2012, 5:47 PM

Would Obama kneel before Zod?

According to Scott Siff of BAV Consulting, today a majority of people around the world are tired, I mean really tired, of ideology, whether it's religious or political. What do they wish for instead? PRACTICALITY. Siff was speaking earlier today...

Oct 19, 2012, 10:58 PM

Tripping out on Gulf Air magazine

From 35,000 feet the world can look disarmingly placid. And some things, like alien-looking pseudo-lasagna and in-flight magazines, always seem to work better in a plane. Bring them down to tarmac-level and you have, in the case of the...

Oct 17, 2012, 9:40 PM

My miniature and somewhat odd Greek protest

Greece is the word!! Today Greece's journalists are on strike to protest the latest round of the E.U.'s "austerity" measures. How right they are to stand up to this relentless torrent of Teutonic diktat. But. Greece, along with Malta and...

Oct 16, 2012, 7:33 PM

A Barak I could love

I know what he did last summer: while I was struggling to launch an Israel travel guide on zero budget for a miserly American company so woefully mismanaged that its onetime parent, The New York Times Co., wisely let...

Oct 15, 2012, 12:12 AM

10 words that will cost Romney the election

The 'policy of a Romney administration will be to oppose abortions,' Paul Ryan said in the recent debate

Oct 12, 2012, 8:22 PM

The Armstrong connection

Boy, can Americans be a bunch of dopes. So easily hoodwinked yet so cowed by the powers that be, whether mercantile or political, that when scandal becomes not just evident but proven, they fail to rebel, preferring instead a trip...

Oct 11, 2012, 1:37 AM

Obama’s F for foreign policy

The other day, The New York Times in an unsigned op-ed called Obama's foreign policy record "respectable". Not so fast, Gray Lady. As an opinion that's fit to print, but in reality nothing could be further from the truth. Obama's foreign policy...

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