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Bird Omen: Seagull and Crow attack white peace Doves released at Vatican

Posted by Mandy Nagy on January 26, 2014 16 Comments

Children make gesture of peace as Pope watches

Vidal Sassoon, fighter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 20 Comments

Vidal Sassoon died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at age 84. Known mostly as a name-brand in hair styling, upon reading of his death I learned a lot more about the man, and wondered why I didn’t know more before. From The Times of Israel: A...

Dangerous Turkey

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2011 4 Comments

Turkish Prime Minsister Erdogan’s agitation show no signs of letting up. He’s back to threats of military confrontation with Israel: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Israel could not do whatever it wanted in the eastern Mediterranean and that Turkish warships could be...

No Hugs For The Iranian Regime

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2009 2 Comments

When Barack Obama warmly greeted Hugo Chavez last April, Obama sent a message of despair to Venezuelans who sought freedom from Chavez’s cult of personality. Any hope the Venezuelan opposition had of a near-term reversal of newspaper closings, political imprisonments, street intimidation, and nationalizations, died...