When I hear President Bush tell Russia “Enough is enough” when it comes to their illegal invasion of Georgia, I am left asking; What moral authority gives this man whose own illegal invasion of Iraq the audacity to call upon Russia to stand down? Do I wish that Russia would stand down? Absolutely. The taking of innocent lives is never okay.   more »

Yes, I called the office of Senator Kevin Parker along with my own State Senator Ken LaValle as well as my State Assembly Member, Marc Alessi. I actually think I took those that I spoke to at their offices by surprise with my solution. It was like they had never heard of such a solution. Or scratched their heads that a fellow New Yorker actually had a solution.   more »

As I hit this milestone in my life, I will be celebrating this day with the greatest gifts that God has bestowed upon me and they are my children. My children are my greatest joys in life.   more »

Which reminds me when someone has remarked of being burglarized they will say, “They took everything that wasn’t nailed down including the kitchen sink.” Makes you wonder just how much that kitchen sink is worth in today’s black market.   more »

We came to be because brave patriots sacrificed their lives, spilt their blood to form a more perfect union. Their quest was freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ‘we the people’. We owe it to their memories to live up to the spirit of their words that have carried us through the darkest of times.   more »

To those obit reporters, you are doing some of the best work that is out there. You are celebrating a person’s life for those left behind instead of tearing them down in front of all of us. My hat’s off to you.   more »

The next generation of journalists should all aspire and desire to be a Tim Russert, a Peter Jennings, an Edward R. Murrow and the countless others who knew in their hearts that telling the story was a duty to their fellow Americans.   more »

I am calling upon every single Democratic leader demanding that Spitzer resign so that we as a state can heal. I am calling upon them to do so since we have bigger problems to solve such as our $5 billion dollar budget deficit that affects each and every New Yorker. While many New Yorker’s suffer, Eliot Spitzer’s libido did not suffer.   more »

In many of the primaries already held, he faired better than Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. Ask yourselves, will a President McCain, Clinton or Obama pardon two border agents like Ramos and Compean? No they will not.   more »

We the people deserve to hear from candidates like former Senator Mike Gravel and Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Our founders would be ashamed not only at you, your party, the Republican Party, but they would be spinning in their graves seeing a media abridge free speech.   more »

Every citizen of this country deserves quality health insurance. But, the sad and angering fact is that these politicians do not see it as we do. With the snap of a finger, you may be the next to go without health insurance. Do you feel the terror yet?   more »

This column is dedicated to all of our soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq and who have come home maimed. This column is also dedicated to the countless innocent Iraqis who have been killed at the hands of the United States government.   more »

In my opinion true justice for those guilty while protecting those who may be innocent is life in prison without the possibility of parole. This way the defense team working on behalf of those innocent have time to save that defendant’s life and those guilty will spend the rest of their lives in prison which I feel is a fate worse than death itself.   more »

To close out this piece what we have all witnessed in recent years is the true death of our democracy at the hands of both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. We have equally witnessed it coming from the mainstream media.   more »

As I was trying to think of a Christmas theme to write about this year, my involvement in this story to help a child named Yousiff was my miracle. Yousiff touched me in so many ways and if I could visit him, it would be to say, “Thank you, Yousiff”   more »

World governments often think that terrorism is a result of terrorists bombing places and taking the lives of the innocent. I would go them one better, pedophiles are equally terrorizing the innocent especially the most innocent, our children.   more »

You would have thought with the Christmas season upon us, this campaign would not have seen this bionic-number, but it did. Maybe the people want an early 2008 Christmas present. Who can blame them when year after year especially during the Bush years, all the American people have received is coal in their stockings.   more »

when the media focuses primarily on these top-tier candidates another quote from Adlai E. Stevenson comes to mind, “An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.” So are Americans only receiving the chaff and not the wheat? You tell me.   more »

In essence what we need is elected leaders guided by the Constitution and not religious doctrine. We should remind them all, “It’s the Constitution, stupid.”   more »

The people were denied their voice on that day and we must always be mindful that it should never happen again. Bush always states that our soldiers are dying for our freedoms and one of those freedoms is to have every vote counted. His very presence in office and by the means he obtained it besmirches the honor and duty to all that serve this country.   more »

to the State of Israel, my words are clear when it comes to those living in the Gaza, let those people go and let them get the medical care they so rightly deserve.   more »

In closing to attack pedophile victims such as Shawn Hornbeck or to state that writers for “left web sites” such as me are glad that men like Tony Snow has been battling cancer, it is none-other than Bill O’Reilly who is in need of an exorcism. The reason I say that is that exorcists who battle the devil in the Rituale Romanum will often state that the devil will lie and the same is directed at Bill O’Reilly.   more »

Note to both Republicans and Democrats alike: I challenge you to vote Paul and Gravel in your primaries instead of the top-tier candidates who are blowing smoke when it comes to any threat posed by Iran and no threat coming from Israel. Americans for the most part are tired of being played for suckers.   more »

In retail you want the consumer to purchase the high-ticket items first and seeing how much is raised by the front runners for their campaigns; it is what makes them the high-ticket items.   more »

As I condemned the actions of Tucker Carlson in my last piece, I herald the works of John Pilger who many may not know of but should. I do think if we had courageous journalists such as Pilger broadcasting every single day, this country would be the better for it.   more »

As we all know, Carlson is married with four children and one has to wonder: Why is he hanging around a brothel owner let alone prostitutes? Where are his conservative values?   more »

While some will take this column as an endorsement of Gravel, it is not, it is speaking up for the truth when the truth should and must matter in this country as we go forward. It is also speaking up for those soldiers who have died and have come home maimed for life. It is for the one million innocent Iraqis who have died.   more »

I will let you decide whether or not there is a cozy relationship between both and perhaps the next time she attacks President Bush, one must wonder why. Or is this simply a case where, politics makes strange bedfellows?   more »

Lastly and again to those who have read my columns and have disagreed with my prose, I also wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. The lesson I have learned during these past seven years as a freelance writer is that we truly have the freedom to disagree with each other. We should all be thankful for that. I am thankful that you at least take time to care when some seem so distant or oblivious to what is going on.   more »

I will leave you with this quote coming from Nelson Mandela who stated upon leaving office, “South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting" Let us remember how many years he was locked away in a South African prison during its most heinous time called Apartheid.   more »

In fact this is what, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos had to say of using Carville, “Would it kill CNN to disclose that James Carville is a partisan Clinton supporter when talking about the presidential race?” That is a very good question coming from Moulitas.   more »

Yes, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Dodd, and McCain there is a way of ending this war. Why the hell aren’t you using them? Oh that is right, too damn busy campaigning while our soldiers continue to die as well as innocent Iraqis.   more »