VOICES

CANCEL CULTURE - A couple of days after the public shaming and suspension punishment of Whoopi Goldberg for saying that “the Holocaust isn’t about race,” I combed the Internet to see if any Jewish leader would cut her some slack.

ISRAEL WATCH - Israel dismisses charges of “apartheid against Palestinians” as anti-Semitic propaganda, and the United States has been an enabler of Israeli racism over the years with its hands-off attitudes toward the inhumanity of Israeli actions on the West Bank and Gaza. 

LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE - If you’re the sort of person who follows the news, you’ve probably heard a good bit lately about podcaster Joe Rogan, Neil Young’s fight with Spotify, and maybe a little about Russia and Ukraine.

PERSPECTIVE - Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison and not only because they both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war.

MASS MOVEMENT - Eric Hoffer was a former immigrant farm worker who achieved praise and fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a writer and philosopher.

COMMENTARY - A Glendale resident recently ruminated on NextDoor about the new policy about separating garbage from trash. 

COMMENTARY - Donald Trump likes to hold rallies on Saturday nights.

SUPREME COURT - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to a reporter’s question about conservatives who are upset about President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate someone who is a Black woman as a justice to the Supreme Court.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The most lethal person to the American Republic is Nancy Pelosi and her racist Identity Politics.  Without Pelosi, there would be no Donald Trump.

COMMENTARY - She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi Goldberg waded into a charged discourse that has polarized the Jewish community — and those who seek to discriminate against them — for centuries.

MILITARY ACTION - President Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. military has "successfully removed a major terrorist threat to the world," ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.

COMMENTARY - “The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”

THE DOCTOR IS IN – I am not a fan of silencing one side or another when it comes to literature, free speech, race, religion, and politics.

 INFLATION - Starbucks on Tuesday reported a 31% increase in profits during the final three months of 2021.

HOUSING CRISIS - Ongoing homeless sweeps triggered by the upcoming Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, have outraged homeless and housing justice activists.

MARC’S ANGLE - After the loss of two US Senate seats in Georgia a year ago, flipping control of the upper house to Democrats, in addition to the loss of the presidency and the retention of the House, I said this was the best scenario for Republicans.

US POLICY - There is no doctrinal statement in American diplomatic history that is more fundamental than the Monroe Doctrine. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - We are now witnessing the madness to which Group Rights Identity Politics has lead us.

COMMENTARY - Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.

COVID POLITICS - The common accusation hurled at proponents of covid-19 vaccines, like me, is that we are carrying dirty water for Big Pharma.

COMMENTARY - In 1930, John Dos Passos wrote that America is many things: it is a “slice of a continent”, “the world’s greatest river valley”, and “a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bank accounts”.