OP-ED Articles

Dateline Boston — I met a man on an airplane about eight years ago, and we hit it off. He asked me to write for his newspaper, in Op-Ed, and I took him up on his offer. I write essays about whatever is happening in my life at any given time. I usually keep it light. Over the years, Editor … Read More

What do you get when a failed president sits down with a rape-hoaxer? Some very satisfying schadenfreude. President Barack Obama, the second most powerful human being in the world, has just 50 days left in office. He’s getting ready to turn over the White House to a man he clearly despises. He just watched the voters reject everything he stands … Read More

Painstakingly matronly, Susie Page, the daffy leftist Washington correspondent for the embarrassingly leftist USA Today, has a habit of walking in concentric circles in a small, vacant room, sloppily muttering “I am obsessed. I hate Donald Trump, and I can’t control myself.” Impressed colleagues lavishly applaud her originality. Looking as if she had just emerged from a drunken frat party … Read More

The Guss Report — In her 1969 book, On Death and Dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross created a framework of the five stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. While her book was essentially about grieving the loss of human life, it could also apply to the loss of a marriage, a pet or even an election. Denial was exemplified … Read More

Dateline Jerusalem — The other day Americans celebrated Thanksgiving Day, officially declared a national holiday by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.  However, the first Thanksgiving in America was celebrated by Pilgrims and American Indians in 1621. Not until 1789 did America’s first President, George Washington, declare it a day of thanksgiving and prayer.  Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday but a … Read More

If Islam is your religion and your lifestyle, and you want to be a terrorist when you grow up, skip America. Try England, Hungary, Paris – then you will become instantly infamous. Attack the United States and the 98 percent of boy journalists who are liberal will throw their bodies on top of yours, crying out “nothing here.” Aggressively, the … Read More

As President-elect Trump puts his staff together, he is breaking promises made during the long campaign. I am a firm believer that a political campaign should not last more than a month. In the old days, when candidates had to travel by train to get their message and lies to the people, a longer campaign period was necessary. Today we … Read More

Claiming God-inspiration, you aspire to be the great second Abraham Lincoln, rectifying the crucial, generational matter concerning black lives. As you loudly pronounced the great injustices against black lives…more than any presidential candidate in U.S. history – except Lincoln. Many Americans believe that you just might be that much needed, great second Abraham Lincoln figure. Though Mr. Lincoln ended the Democratic Party’s inherited, … Read More

More of those wonderful events that I call Duhs. These could have given the advertisement folks at V-8 Juices their motto: I coulda had a V-8!  — Like, I coulda turned off the phone’s volume! The Phone’s Volume Button After having telephones all of my life, I, Duh, realized recently that besides turning off the ringers to the telephones, I … Read More

[Editor’s Note: Gene and Miriam Greenberg are one of the Orthodox Jewish community’s favorite couples, especially in Pico-Robertson and in Westwood. Here is the second half of Mrs. Greenberg’s splendid talk on their 60th wedding anniversary last January.]  “For 2,000 years my people, the Jewish people, were stateless, voiceless.  We were utterly powerless against our enemies who swore to destroy … Read More