Obama Still Not listening to all the Jewish Voters

by James M. Wall
Last week was a good week for Barack Obama: High level meetings with Afghanistan and Iraqi civilian leaders, a formal meeting in Baghdad with the U.S. military commander in the country, Gen. David Petraeus, a made-for-television event with 200,000 screaming fans in Berlin, and private presidential-like conversations with French and British leaders.
There was also quality [...]

Obama Needs Some Internet Virtual Reality On This Trip

Since this posting’s initial appearance it has been reproduced on many other locations in the internet world of virtual reality, a number of which serve the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  Visit that internet world by searching for this posting’s title at Google. You will find other blogs and sites that reproduced the posting, thereby extending its [...]

Cannes Festival: Reflections on Our Modern Chaotic World

                                                 Waltz with Bashir
by Ron Holloway
Guest columnist Ron Holloway, Chicago-born film critic and scholar, who now lives in Berlin, Germany, returns to these pages with this report on the 61st annual Cannes Film [...]

We Like Obama But Early Signs are Not Promising

by James M. Wall
You have to like Barack Obama.  He is young, intelligent, progressive, and has a terrific wife. He is the future. He defeated the last remant of the Clinton dynasty in a superbly run (and lucky) primary battle.   But as Maureen Dowd recently noted in a column on marriage, when looking for [...]