Confronted with the challenges of our lifetime, we owe Chuck Schumer our gratitude. NEW YORK, NY — January 14, 2021 — It was a year ago. The Jewish community had barely passed the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Tree of Life Massacre, and suddenly we were again reeling after brazen and deadly anti-Semitic attacks in Poway, California; …
By MICHAEL S. MILLER and ERIC S. GOLDSTEIN
Joe Biden’s ‘Transparency’
By LARRY M. ELKIN, CPA, CFP (R)
Joe Biden likes to say that he will “level with the American people,” but he is cagey about when he will do so and what he will level with us about. FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — October 26, 2020 — When Biden promised CNN’s Jake Tapper last month that he will be “totally transparent in terms of my health and all …
By LARRY M. ELKIN, CPA, CFP (R)
Our New Battle Plan for the COVID-19 Waterfront
By Gov. ANDREW M. CUOMO
Andrew Cuomo Lays Out New York’s Strategy to Defeat the Virus Governor Cuomo: “A goal without a plan is just a wish. As [225,000] lost lives demonstrates, COVID is something to worry about and we need an intelligent prescription to address the current viral surge.” The New York Daily News published an op-ed by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo laying …
By Gov. ANDREW M. CUOMO
Bob Woodward and the Ethical Lens of America
By WMU-Cooley Law School Professor VICTORIA VULETICH
Opinion by WMU-Cooley Professor Victoria Vuletich Victoria Vuletich is a professor at Western Michigan University Law School and a professional responsibility attorney. She has spoken at Oxford University, Hertford College, U.K. and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, among others, as a frequent commentator on ethics, integrity and civil discourse. LANSING, MI — October 8, 2020 — “People seek simple …
By WMU-Cooley Law School Professor VICTORIA VULETICH
Remembering Richard Blassberg
TONY CASTRO, Esq.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — September 25, 2020 — In reflecting on the life of my friend Richard Blassberg, the first thought that comes to mind is the idiom, “God threw the mold away when he made him.” There was no one like Richard, as those who knew him will attest to. I met Richard in 2001 when I first ran …
TONY CASTRO, Esq.
The Twilight Zone World of Gender Identification
By BOB WEIR
FLOWER MOUND,, TX — September 8, 2020 -—If you’ve grown to adulthood with the idea that there are only two genders, you may have to be re-educated to disabuse you of the notion that men are males and women are females. In an era that some refer to as a cultural revolution, all the precepts that formed the building blocks …
By BOB WEIR
John Bailey, White Plains CitizeNetReporter Publisher / Editor, Michael Edelman, Esq., Political Analyst / Pundit, Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Unvarnished Blog Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, and Hezi Aris, Yonkers Tribune Publisher/Editor-at-Large on Westchester On the Level – Monday, August 24, 2020 @ 10am EST
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Indian Removal Act
By PAUL F. PETRICK, Esq.
CLEVELAND, OH — July 17, 2020 — As Northeast Ohio baseball fans anticipate the start of a truncated season of Cleveland Indians baseball, they are suddenly faced with the possible end of their beloved ballclub as they know it. On July 3rd, the Indians released a statement explaining how the team was “committed to engaging our community and appropriate stakeholders …
By PAUL F. PETRICK, Esq.
So, Luxembourg Thinks It Can Give Israel a Torah Lesson
By STEPHEN M. FLATOW
NEW JERSEY — June 22, 2020 — Former Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn says sovereignty is against biblical “Thou shalt not steal,” but does he accept Israel’s biblical borders too? I’ve been reading up on the history of Luxembourg. That tiny landlocked country is not usually on my list of topics of interest. But this week, the former foreign minister …
By STEPHEN M. FLATOW
The Black Lives Matter Movement is the Enemy of African Americans
By LESLIE TAHA
TACOMA, WA — June 20, 2020 — The first thing that I have to say is that I am an African American man living in the Minneapolis area. I have to state this now; otherwise I would probably be called a racist. Most people think that Black Lives Matter is a grass-roots, black created, black run organization dedicated to fighting …
By LESLIE TAHA