Year: 2013

Many are outraged at the conduct of the Obama Administration — From filmmaker: Mark Birnbaum: to the: ACLJ & Jay Sekulow, and recently more than 30,000 people have signed a petition to that effect. Phony scandals? That’s the Obama Administration’s latest spin — spoken by the President himself. But there’s nothing phony about Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS […]

It is hard to read a newspaper, or watch a television newscast, without encountering someone who has come up with a new “solution” to society’s “problems.” Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than there are problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s […]

A few weeks ago, a former president and many of his Secret Service agents made a significant sacrifice on behalf of another young American that went largely unnoticed by most of the nation. Did you catch it? My friend and our 41st president, 89-year-old George H.W. Bush, in solidarity with his Secret Service detail, shaved […]

In President Obama’s world, “fairness” seems to be of overarching concern. Too bad “fairness” means what he says it does rather than what Webster’s specifies. You’ll rarely hear Obama talk about economic growth — even as an aspiration — and not just because there’s been a dearth of it under his miserable five years in […]

In August 2002, a homo sapien known as Ariel Castro abducted 21-year-old Michelle Knight, the mother of a two-year-old boy. In April 2003, he abducted Amanda Berry, a day before her 17th birthday. And in April 2004, he abducted 14-year-old Gina DeJesus. For the next ten years, these girls were regularly raped, kept in chains, […]

AMSTERDAM — On the day I visit the Anne Frank House, which is actually the family’s hiding place atop Anne’s father’s business, the wait to get in is as long as three hours. Such is the attraction of this historic site, 53 years after it was opened to the public. Anne and her family were […]

Busy week with plenty of important happenings in the heat of summer — a collection of thoughts from: Ronn Torossian, a NY PR firm owner:   Rather ironic how many American enemies — dictators and terrorists — use American communication tools to fool and spin the masses.: : President Assad of Syria — who has killed 100,000 of […]