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I grew up in the least-Jewish Jewish family around in the 1950s. We celebrated Christmas every year in a big-time fashion: tree, decorations, and all. And despite the desires of my dear grandmother, there would be no temple, no Sunday Hebrew school, no religion of any sort. I actually went to a Quaker school and I suspect that the first temple I ever entered was at 13 for a
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Make no mistake, artificial Intelligence (AI) has already gone into battle in a big-time way. The Israeli military is using it in Gaza on a scale previously unknown in wartime. They’ve reportedly been employing
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All of us now live on one hell (and I do mean hell) of a planet. Just imagine this: June, July, August, September, October, November, December — each was a record-shattering month of heat in 2023, which, not surprisingly, proved to be a
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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
So that classic late 1960s song claimed. Still, for Bill Astore and me (and, I have little doubt, Joe Biden, too), such a thought didn’t cross our minds as we played with toy
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Consider it the bleakest of all-American miracles. The latest NBC News poll has Donald Trump’s lead over Joe Biden in a projected 2024 presidential contest growing to 5% (47% to 42%). Of course,
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What would George Orwell think 39 years after that nightmarish title year of his passed us by? Like so many of my friends, I read his novel 1984 in my teens and never forgot “Big Brother” or phrases like “doublethink” that still have a sad applicability in today’s world. I mention this because I noticed recently that, among the
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Consider this strange: Seventy-eight years after the first and only nuclear weapons were used on Planet Earth, anyone with half a brain knows that a nuclear war would be an incomparable disaster for this planet and everyone living on it. So, remind me, why the endless nuclear pantomime?
Why, as last year wound down, for instance, did the U.S. decide to
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The Last Superpower? And the Longest Paragraph ByI was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New York City. The United States was then nearing the end of the second global war of that century and things were about to look up. My dad had been the operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos fighting the Japanese in Burma and,
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Imagine this: once there were just two of them produced by a single country, the United States. I’m thinking, of course, of the atomic bombs dropped with such devastating effect on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. Now, there are roughly
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Yep, you guessed it! Donald Trump’s solution to the drug crisis in America is to institute a death penalty for drug dealers. Hey, it’s how they do it in China, right, so why not