On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called "Now We Know How Israel Feels." In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Mo., a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough. ...more

January 7, 2009

What A Treat! ...more

May 27, 2008

A Bad Comparison Regarding "Bush Remarks Rile Obama" (Nation/World, May 16): Is there anyone left in this country who believes that G.W. Bush has any credibility? If Bush wants to make an analogy, it should not be between Barack Obama and appeasement before World War II, but rather between what he has done to the United States of America and what was done to Germany by its leaders before and during the war. ...more

May 20, 2008

France has had contacts with the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas "for several months," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday. ...more

May 20, 2008

Regarding "MySpace's Changes To Shield Teen Users" (front page, Jan. 15): MySpace announced that all pages of people under 16 will be "private by default" to combat sexual predators. However, this setting can be easily changed by even a computer novice. What would be even easier would be to lie about one's age when prompted, a task anyone who can subtract 18 from 2008 can accomplish. ...more

January 17, 2008