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State Verses Khalid Sheik Muhammad

"Trying the mastermind of 9/11 in New York City? This Obama is a disaster of Biblical proportions," a fellow murmurs to me in the synagogue, although he offers no sources in Scripture for his assertion. Presumably he means nothing more than to ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Go Fly Al Qaeda

Skying from Fort Lauderdale to New York City the other day, I was shocked when my seat neighbor, a college student from Seattle, turned and said: "Last time I flew in a plane, I didn't land." Clearly a clever punch line was coming, but what? I ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda

Fed to the Wolves

Jews who follow the traditional prayer book say a little rhyming couplet each morning: A fair translation, mimicking the meter, would be: Lord, let me not be tested And let me not be detested… The way to succeed as a moral person is not by ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  NASA

The Mind Boggles

Haven't you heard? Baucus got his caucus to snow Snowe, the health insurance form got reformed, and the public is plumb out of options. If that ain't cause for celebration where you are, you must be living elsewhere than our nation's capital. And ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  PricewaterhouseCoopers

America Cops to the World

Is this irony or what? President Barack H. Obama went to the U.N. to announce it is time for the U.S. to stop being smug, arrogant and condescending about its international role, in a preachment he delivered with a tone and manner that could only ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Ronald Reagan,  NPR,  Bill Clinton

Turning Over a New Leaf

…that men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match… -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam One of the most fascinating Biblical themes, striking in its ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Whittaker Chambers

Spending Money Freely

The late Milton Berle loved the story of the Senator who took to the Senate floor to deliver a long pompous presentation about something or other. Later he met a constituent and asked: "Did you hear my last speech?" "I certainly hope so." Much ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joe Wilson (politician),  Ronald Reagan,  Milton Berle,  U.S. Senate

Clunk for Cashers

Borrowing a page from France, the Obama administration offered Cash for Clunkers, a program in which cars without radios were given country music CDs. The endeavor has been proclaimed an unqualified success, in that unqualified federal workers ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Marie Antoinette

Health Care Orthodoxy

Readers expect me to offer intelligence guided by experience, in Rex Stout's phrase, tempered by general knowledge, informed by moral tradition. My Biblical and Talmudic scholarship serves as reference material, but it is not my job to deliver a ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  24 Aug 2009

Meanness-Tested Program

Sam sees his friend Morris is perturbed and asks what's the matter. "I have misplaced my glasses. I looked for them in my shirt pocket, my pants pockets and my outside jacket pockets and I can't find them." "Why don't you check your inside jacket ...

From JAY D. HOMNICK, American Spectator,  18 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  John D. Rockefeller

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