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David Denenberg, a Nassau County legislator who’s running for the Senate as a Democrat, billed for fictional expenses from the day he arrived at the firm in 2006 through most of last year, according to a lawsuit the firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron says it will file Tuesday. Denenberg’s former colleagues call him a 'criminal mastermind still inexcusably running for public office.'

It’s fair to say the real war against media bias has begun. A conservative leadership summit to confront media bias is meeting in Washington, D.C. this week to formulate strategy for a nationwide battle against mainstream media bias. The invitation to the summit, sent out by Don Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media, a leading media watchdog, explained the summit this way: “We all know the role a biased, leftist media played in selecting Barack Obama, who was largely a media creation. In the last election, the media’s support was worth hundreds of millions of dollars and legions of campaign...

George Orwell, a great fighter and writer for freedom, captured the essence of the totalitarian mind by satirizing its use of language, and gave us the famous Orwellian inversions of the totalitarian mind — war is peace, slavery is freedom and ignorance is strength. Although such linguistic lunacy may not always reflect a totalitarian mind, it does reflect the kind of thinking that is dangerous in a democracy or any other place. And we now find one of the practitioners of the distorted thinking of Orwellian inversions is our president, Barack “The Apologizer and Appeaser” Obama and his administration. His...

The mainstream media continues its accelerating downward spiral into the journalistic sewer and cesspool, a development that is shocking and staggering to any observer who knows the devastating consequence of this journalistic malpractice. One of the multiple consequences of this malpractice is that the public is being fed a steady stream of mainstream media propaganda to prop up and propagandize for the Obama administration. If the truth were being reported, there would be an uprising that would make the recent “tea parties” look like a little Sunday school picnic by comparison. The Obama administration is out of control, firing radical...

We need immigration reform, but it need not be comprehensive. The more comprehensive reform, the more difficult it becomes to accomplish politically. So we ought to proceed on a piece-by-piece basis, taking up the highest priority matters first. Security Reforms We have to close our borders or we will be beckoning to terrorists and what are called transnational criminals (for example, drug, human and arms smugglers). That means stepping up border security by completing all fences and other barriers and by providing greater border police and enforcement resources. Then we have to finally establish a central computer system so employers...

We’ve recently had discussions of America’s exceptionalism — the unique and magnificent place in history of this country, the greatest nation in the history of the world, a unique and powerful democracy, with virtually unlimited productivity, generosity and humanity.  This adds up to the unique and wonderful role America plays in the world. I would have thought that everyone would see that all of reason and history would without question concede this American exceptionalism. But I was wrong. When our president, Barack Obama, was asked about that American exceptionalism while traveling abroad, he seemed to hem and haw and finally...

We’re in a two-front war, but we’re in denial on one front, and almost totally unaware of the other. Consequently, we may be on our way to losing the war and losing America as we know it. There are two fronts in the war of Islam against the West — the first front is the attack of the terrorists, what might be called the explosive jihad, which we hear about most often; but more importantly, and even more deadly, is the second front, the stealth jihad front, the slow takeover of America and gradual imposition of the Muslim law known...

Isn’t it about time we stop diddling around and wipe out Iran’s capacity to build and launch a nuclear bomb? If we don’t do it, we ought to give full help and encouragement to Israel or any other nation that wants to go on that great humanitarian mission. The world, for the first time in history, has to be more concerned about genocide. That’s because with the advent of nuclear materials, nuclear weapons and missile technology in the hands of genocidal maniacs like Iran and Korea who do business with terrorists and freely sell their weapons and technology to all...

The eloquent and articulate spokesman for fiscal sanity, Daniel Hannan, an Englishman who is a member of the European Parliament, has made many statements on the orgy of spending, debt and deficits now quickly wrecking our economy. But what was most surprising by his statements was what he considered the most important thing he wanted to communicate to Americans. In a television interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, he said if the viewers only remember one thing, he wants them to remember that the proposed universal health insurance system would be an unmitigated disaster. He showed intense emotion while...

If you want to find the cartoons that characterize the worst of Nazi Germany and Arab anti-Semitism, you now have homegrown stock. You have to go no further than the many papers that run the syndicated cartoons of Pat Oliphant (Universal Press Syndicate), the most widely syndicated editorial cartoonist in the world. Early published reports said The New York Times also ran the cartoon, but those who complained (as I did) soon got this message from The Times: “The offending cartoon by Oliphant was not and will not be published in The New York Times. It did not appear on...

I thought Janet Napolitano, the new Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Obama administration had reached the high-point of asinine liberal political correctness, when she said rather than refer to “terrorism” she preferred to call it “man-caused disasters.” The poor pathetic soul, who by law is supposed to be leading the effort to keep the homeland safe from terrorism, explained to the German magazine, Der Spiegel (March 16, 2009), why the word terror is suddenly verboten: “I did not use the word ‘terrorism.’ I referred to ‘man-caused’ disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want...

I never imagined I’d be writing this line — tyranny is on the march in the U.S. When you have the exploding expansion of government and an accompanying growth of regulation and taxation, you are sounding the death knell of American liberty and going down the road to tyranny for two reasons: • First, as government expands, liberty contracts. History demonstrates as government expands, it squeezes out private enterprise and free markets. That spells the beginning of the end of our capitalist system and the rise of a government-dominated economy and society. When that starts happening, with the leadership that...

There are growing indications that the Obama administration is melting down, unraveling and falling apart. The clearest indication is Barack Obama and his treasury secretary failing to come up with a plan to fix the bank/credit crisis. He is proposing solutions for every social problem ever identified by liberal Democrats, but doesn’t seem to be dealing with what should be his No. 1 priority. The bank fix is supposed to be announced by Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, during this week. Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but the early days of the Obama administration will be remembered for his...

Coming to a country near you: Labor contracts dictated by federal arbitrators who know little about the businesses they will be regulating by their decisions, and the advent of near universal unionization. The country near you is your country — yes, the United States of America. If high corporate taxes, increased dividend taxes, increased capital gains taxes, the anti-energy carbon tax and metastasizing regulation won’t kill American business, entrepreneurship, and innovation, this will: the wildly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) backed by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, now the far left party. EFCA is the top priority...

I have one example of media bias, which will demonstrate that the biased, dishonest and fraudulent mainstream media has the potential to destroy America and is in the process of doing exactly that. That is so because it presents such a distorted picture of the world to most Americans who rely on it for news and information, that it will lead to policies and laws, which are likely to bring the country down. Put the case that a president of the United States appoints an official to a top intelligence and foreign policy post who has a long history of...

Take this one-question quiz so you’ll understand you’re being misled and ripped off if you pay to read the mainstream media, including such publications as The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Question: Which of the following two publications is most likely to give you the truth about the threat of radical Islam: A. The expensive New York Times, with a Sunday edition costing more than the value of one share of its stock. B. The Good News: A Magazine of Understanding, a free publication of the United Church of God. C. The Philadelphia Inquirer, the financially and journalistically...

I’m glad to report that I’m all charged up as a result of my column on Amnesty International (also known as Anti-Semitism International) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). That column ran yesterday in The Bulletin. In it, I showed that Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union are on a lower moral plane than the mass murderers and genocidal maniacs that make up Hamas and al-Qaida. At least the latter two admit their purposes. In its charter, for example, Hamas advocates the slaughter of innocents. So at least they have the honesty lacking in Amnesty International and...

Here’s a quiz to determine if you are aware of America’s most immoral and dangerous enemies. Many are not aware of our enemies and, in fact, many Americans and other people around the world are not only unaware of the true nature of these enemies, but also lend their financial support to them. Question one: What do these four organizations have in common: The ACLU, Hamas, Amnesty International and al-Qaida? Question two: Of those four organizations named above, which two are the most immoral, depraved, and despicable? Answer to question one: All four work on behalf of terrorists and terrorism...

The most important aspect of President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress this week was not what he said, but what he failed to say or short-changed with excessive brevity. Whether we like it or not we’re at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we’re also at war with al-Qaida and the rest of the international network of terrorists. What’s more, our security and economy are both endangered by our leaky borders and our failure to close our borders and control immigration. You wouldn’t know that from President Obama’s speech, as it was almost all devoted to the economy. But you...

Perhaps the most serious and most dangerous problem we face is the normalization of evil. That’s the title of an essay published on Feb. 3, 2009 in the Wall Street Journal by Judea Pearl, father of Daniel Pearl, the 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded by Islamofascist terrorists in Pakistan. The title of the article, “The Normalization of Terror,” and its theme carry a devastating message, showing how the mainstream media, many of our leading universities, and people like Jimmy Carter and Bill Moyers have succeeded in transforming the most despicable, immoral, genocidal degenerates into a respectable category...