Body of an Iranian protester, murdered in the hospital by regime gunmen. Note IV line to hand and bullet wound to forehead. Trump might have prevented this. Courtesy X (Twitter) Those familiar with this blog might recall that I have long considered Donald Trump — Benedict Donald as I now think of him (with Benedict […]
Today the world awoke to a breathtaking new reality. The Iranian regime’s efforts to develop and deploy the nuclear-tipped missile capability to “wipe Israel off the map” in a second, atomic Holocaust — and to threaten the U.S.1 — has finally and almost certainly been crushed. Israel’s non-stop (since June 13) attacks on the […]
Trump’s official portrait — a glowering MAGGOT Since I last wrote about Ukraine two weeks ago, Trump has turned bad into worse. In my mind, he’s turned MAGA into MAGGOT. On Feb. 28, he and JD Vance1 attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in a way that — almost — makes me […]
Over the past week or so, Donald Trump and key members of his administration have made clear that the U.S. is abandoning its support of Ukraine and switching sides. President Trump is throwing America’s weight in favor of Russia and its war criminal president, Vladimir Putin, the brutal invader of Ukraine. Here are the key […]
Musk-ox — not sure if this one’s named Elon The whirlwind generated by Donald Trump and Elon Musk threatens not only to tear chunks of the U.S. government to shreds, some of its first gusts — directed at USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development) — will almost certainly end the lives of an untold […]
Iranian missile in sky above Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 1, 2024 Tomorrow — in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days (Rosh Hashana, the New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement) — Israel and Jews around the world will mark the first anniversary of the barbarous 10/7/23 attack on civilian communities and […]
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump Since I last shared my views on the upcoming election (https://pen4rent.com/a-plague-on-both-their-houses and https://pen4rent.com/biden-gets-it-half-or-more-wrong-again), there has been a seismic shift in the Democratic Party’s candidate for president (from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris). Moreover, mail-in ballots for the election have already been sent to voters in several states. While my thoughts […]
Encampment at Columbia University For the past few weeks, the news has been filled with reports about mobs of college students across the country — beginning at elite institutions like Columbia, Yale, Harvard and UCLA, and often supported by professors — chanting antisemitic slogans, harassing and intimidating Jews and even calling for (and sometimes committing) […]
President Biden with his National Security Team in the White House Situation Room, April 13, 2024 I was going to title this post “Biden Gets It Half Right,” but on second thought it’s clear to me that the wrong part considerably outweighs the right. When, yesterday, Iran’s mullahs launched some 320 drones and cruise and […]
Joseph I. Lieberman, Feb. 24, 1942 – Mar. 27, 2024 Joe Lieberman’s death this week brought back memories of my freshman year at Yale, when I made a brief effort to “heel” (that is, to try out for a position as a writer) at the Yale Daily News, the nation’s oldest independent college daily newspaper […]
