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As leaders from around the world gathered in New York City for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama flew to New York for a different reason: to impress the ladies of “The View.”
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10/4/12
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The world’s top environmental policymakers have finally put their heads together and announced something that makes for sound environmental policy.
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12/8/11
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Hurricane Irene was the first hurricane to touch ground in the U.S. since 2008. For the first time in its history, the New York City transportation system was shut down. Mayor Bloomberg and our local …
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Al D'Amato
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9/1/11
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In the 10 years since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., we have lost 6,000 brave soldiers’ lives, seen countless wounded and spent a trillion dollars on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The immediate response to the attack on the U.S. homeland was fully justified, as we have a right to go after those terrorists who would attack us.
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6/30/11
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Political uprisings have turned the Middle East and northern Africa into a war zone. The worst violence is taking place in Libya, where, since 1969, Moammar Gadhafi and his family have terrorized the nation.
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Al D'Amato
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3/10/11
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Self-centered bordering on narcissistic. That’s how I would describe the U.S.’s reaction to the democratic revolution that has swept across the Middle East and North Africa in recent months.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/11
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“When do we see average, law-abiding Muslims piecing together their lives in a chaotic world? When do we meet the vast majority of the Middle East’s dense population to understand them, to know them, to feel any sense of sympathy for them?”
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by Scott Brinton
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2/24/11
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As Jewish students prepare for college, Beverly Wachtel a Hewlett resident and member of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre, said it’s important for them to understand the political landscape Israel and are prepared for any anti-Israel propaganda they may face at school.
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ANN E. FRIEDMAN
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2/16/11
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Disagreeing with the thesis of an op-ed piece he read on the Long Island Rail Road 30 years ago spurred Hewlett native Alan B. Katz to start writing his own opinion pieces.
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JEFF BESSEN
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2/9/11
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Life imitates art, so to me, the recent xenophobic rants against foreigners seem to jump right off the pages of “The Lazarus Project,” an award-winning novel by Aleksandar Hemon.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/14/10
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