by Getzy Markowitz - Jewish Thought in Simple Words The distinction of language gets lost in translation. In rendering the biblical holy tongue, much of the original script loses its unique expression. The spring reenactment of liberation called Pesach is turned into Passover. Shavuot, the day on wh...

The strategy of former President Obama for economic recovery so far has been to punish those who have worked hard to achieve success in this Land of Opportunity by sacrificing and saving and swallowing their pride again and again in order to invest honest sweat into future reward, and give the fruit...

The Economist calls for an end to the drug war: Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same. In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, c...

There are two responses to the column by David Brooks which I quoted from earlier. Many conservatives, having come off a campaign which was based upon distorting Obama’s words to make him appear much further to the left than he actually is on economic issues, must be delighted by the turn of e...

Michael Jackson has finally announced a residency at London’s O2 Arena, two weeks after I reported on the rumors that these concerts were about to be announced. Jackson, Wacko Jacko, or The King Of Pop depending on your point of view will play 10 dates in July, with tickets going on sale on Ma...

[A note from the Editrix:At the Herald, the real story is often found in the comments - and we occasionally recognize outstanding contributions with the “commie� or comment-of-the-week award. Today, for the first time ever this award is presented to two commenters - Orion and At0m0 Beerbaum for ...

The Democrat “divide and conquer� strategy worked well against the Republicans on far too many occasions in the past, particularly when the GOP was under the sway of “moderates.� All too often, these crowd pleasers took the Democrat bait, attempting to ingratiate themselves with the voting p...

By a Shlucha Article and comments removed by the request of the readers and author. From the author, I just noticed that it was posted, and read through some of the comments. I am begging you to please take it off the website asap. I did not realize people would take it like this and do not want to ...

by Happy Trails, Snail Activist Now I'm not one to complain, but this is about as much as I can stand.  Linde n Lab does not cater to s nails; there are no snail sims, there are no snail clothing stores, very few snail skin makers, and no snail sex ball makers.  There is one lousy sn...

There continues to be controversy over George Will’s recent column on climate change. As  many bloggers I linked to point out, Will’s scientific claims were not accurate. The Washington Post’s ombudsman has responded to the controversy today. While I commented briefly and linked t...