BY DIANE DIMOND Now that the flaming rhetoric over the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting case has mostly subsided, it seems like a good time to more calmly discuss the issue of racism in America. Does it exist? You bet it does. But intellectually honest people have to admit prejudice is a longstanding exercise practiced by […]
To the Editor: Over a period of nine years (December 1994 through November 2003) the Village Board of Suffern (Messrs. Glinksy, Haggerty, Meehan, Traub and myself) raised $1.003 million for downtown improvement projects. As part of those improvements I was able to have two benches installed at the park located at Lafayette and Orange Avenues, […]
BY MATT SHI The electronic cigarette, introduced to the U.S. market in 2007, is an increasingly popular alternative to smoking tobacco for nicotine intake. From the outside, most e-cigarettes look like regular cigarettes, but the inside is very different: E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco. Also, they do not need to be lit by fire. They […]
BY DR. JEFFREY OPPENHEIM, MAYOR OF MONTEBELLO In 2010, former speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said of the then pending Obamacare bill, “we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what is in it.” These words may live in infamy as the country begins now to […]
BY DERRYCK GREEN A New Visions Commentary Help me, I’m suffering from acute race fatigue! After gavel-to-gavel coverage of the George Zimmerman trial, I need a break. After all the post-verdict anger, lamentations and inane discussions about what it is to be a black man in America, I’m exhausted. After watching President Obama liken himself […]
BY KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON Originally published by the National Review (www.nationalreview.com) Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, but his citizen-of-the-world shtick is strictly sophomore year — the great globalist does not […]