The concluding paragraph in the Washington Post's announcement that "Trump won't run for president in 2012," pretty much says it all from the Republican front:

Trump's decision not to run is likely to be greeted by a sigh of relief by most Republican Party strategists who viewed Trump as...

In an article benignly titled "The 'Road to Heaven' at Sobibor" almost exactly two years ago, I wrote about a photograph accompanying an article in the Dutch NRC Handelsblad published around that time.

It was the photo of "a blissful, peaceful, country path bordered on both sides by tall...

In the wake of the successful raid on Osama bin Laden's "mansion" on the outskirts of Islamabad, under the noses of the Pakistani government and its military and security forces, many were saying that, years from now, people will remember what they were doing, where they were, when President Obama

To the few remaining Dutch survivors of the Holocaust and to the descendants of the more than 100,000 Dutch Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II, this upcoming Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) could be a particularly poignant one.

After New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote a blistering yet candid column in the Times mocking Donald Trump's presidential aspirations and debunking the tenets of his sudden "birther" epiphany, Trump immediately fired back a letter to the Times lashing out at Collins -- insulting the...

Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I -- of nearly 5 million Americans who served during that war -- died last month at age 110.

Buckles, who served in England and France, was a member of a...

Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald tells it like it is. In a recent column about "birthers," Pitts calls them "morons,'' ''jackasses," "imbeciles," "idiots,'' "doofuses" and "pinheads."

After admitting that name calling "lowers the level of discourse... forestalls thoughtful response and...does not suggest an excess...

During the 2010 elections, the heyday of the Tea Party, we were treated to some soaring oratory by real, "take-our-country-back" Americans: Those real Americans, real patriots, real believers who belong to the party of core values, the good party -- the party of God.

Feeling quite rejected and dejected, feeling...

A few weeks ago I attended the "Celebration of Life" Service for a dear friend and neighbor who passed away after a long and valiant struggle with cancer.

My friend's final battle was as courageous as was his long service to Country and...

This past Sunday's New York Times op-ed section featured an "Op-Chart" that purported to list "The Pentagon's biggest boondoggles."

According to the Times, the list of "boondoggles" is "just a sampling of what systems could be ended without endangering America," and, furthermore, that "indeed, abandoning some of them...

After recalling both the horrors and the heroism of 9/11---and how "American patriotism soared" that day----the Marine General praised "America's civilian and military protectors both here at home and overseas [who] have for nearly nine years fought this enemy to a standstill and have never for a...

First, a Texas state representative, Leo Berman, R-Tyler, joined the "birthers' movement" by introducing a bill with a real Texas twang. A bill that would require presidential candidates to present their birth certificates to the Texas secretary of state "because we have a president whom the American...

In "The Iraqi Phoenix Rises Again," I described how the once proud and powerful Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) -- at one time the sixth largest air force in the world -- was decimated as a result of both the 1991 "Persian Gulf War" (Operation Desert Storm) and Saddam...

On Wednesday, February 9, President Obama recognized the 28 men who died when Texas Tower No. 4, located 85 miles southeast of New York City, collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean 50 years ago.

What was a "Texas Tower" doing 85 miles off...

I believe that Tom DeLay is a sleazebag. Tom Campbell believes that Tom DeLay "is not a bad man." But hey, I am a nobody and Campbell is a famous Texas lawyer who was general counsel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the George H.W. Bush administration.

As Egypt and its people struggle through one of the most serious political and social crises in their history, most reasonable people and governments are sympathetic to the millions of Egyptians protesting as peacefully as they can to get rid of a dictator with aspirations for more freedom, opportunity and...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney -- noticeably leaner but otherwise looking quite well, considering he underwent major heart surgery only six months ago -- has been making the rounds once again after having been out of the spotlight for several months.

While still criticizing the Obama administration, albeit with a...

When I argued last summer that General David Petraeus should be considered for a fifth star, my remarks were met with skepticism and even ridicule.

I must admit that my idea was not original. A couple of weeks before, D.B. Grady -- a former paratrooper with U.S....

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has recently come under a lot of attention, even ridicule, for telling an audience of Michigan Republicans how she "shed her youthful Democratic roots and became a Republican."

Her story:

Until I was reading this snotty novel called Burr, by Gore Vidal, and read how he...

As the long freight train leaves the Nazi Westerbork transit camp and picks up speed across the flat Dutch countryside, Louis takes out the couple of sheets of paper he had stuffed in his pocket and begins to write his letter. He knows he...