by Ilana Mercer -- A headline on the Huffington Post blared: "Comfort Dogs Sent To Newtown From Chicago Area To Help Community After Sandy Hook Shooting." CNN's top dog, Anderson Cooper, followed more…
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Frankenfoods, diet dictators and other folderol
by Ilana Mercer -- What follows is the first part of a conversation with Karen De Coster, CPA. Karen De Coster is an accounting/finance professional and a freelance writer, blogger, speaker and more…
Walk like an Egyptian
by Ilana Mercer -- This just in: The Secret Service, backed by the District of Columbia Police Department, is battling thousands of protesters outside President Barack Obama's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue "palace," prompting more…
The fiscal cliff: a lemming's lunacy
by Ilana Mercer -- Since the chicken-little metaphor is hackneyed, let us use the alleged lunacy of the lemming as a metaphor for the prattle that rises from the cattle that is more…
Standing armies commandeered by cowards
by Ilana Mercer -- In "Letters from Iceland," W. H. Auden reflected on "the cold controlled ferocity of the human species." The latest flare-up in the cold war between Hamas and Israel more…
Whoring and warring in the military: What's new?
by Ilana Mercer -- There's David Petraeus, former CIA director, formerly a four-star general who cultivated his own celebrity. There's his mistress-cum-stalker, the bombastic, narcissistic Paula Broadwell, who despite – or, rather, more…
The D-Bomb has dropped
by Ilana Mercer -- In our democracy – for we are no longer a republic that upholds individual rights and limits central power – you vote not for the representative who will more…
To be or not to be in Benghazi: That's the question
by Ilana Mercer -- The gist of a cable received by the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Aug. 16 this year, summarized an emergency meeting convened a day before more…
Mining Mitt's apartheid moment
by Ilana Mercer -- During the final presidential debate, Republican contender Mitt Romney got my hackles up (unnecessarily) with the following invocation of apartheid: "I would also make sure that [Iran's] diplomats more…
The perils of presidential 'Yellow Peril' fever
by Ilana Mercer -- In the course of the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney was asked to differentiate himself from the justifiably despised George W. Bush. The Republican presidential contender, who has more…
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