Gas prices are now averaging more than $3.50 a gallon and will most likely hit and exceed $4 a gallon come summer, the height of the driving year. This means it will cost all of you who have love affairs with SUVs about $80 to fill your tank — and there’s no end in sight. [...]

  Talk about chutzpah — and it’s ironic that I use that word when describing those Arabs who are looking to make peace with Israel. First off, a few days ago, when former President Jimmy Carter paid a visit to the Mideast to try and see if Hamas, the terrorist organization that rules over Gaza, would [...]

Thank God tomorrow’s Tuesday. At least this particular Tuesday. Finally, after an agonizing two months, I won’t have to listen to the political pundits on CNN and FOX News tell me hour after hour what Obama and Clinton have to do to win Pennsylvania. Or the million and one scenarios that could be created depending [...]

Maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy, but as I stopped behind a school bus the other day, I couldn’t help wondering if the world, indeed, is going to hell in a hand basket. Here we were, me and about 10 other cars in both directions, waiting for the school bus to get moving, while [...]

I don’t have a problem with a president who may not be the best speaker in the world. Or one who doesn’t have movie star looks. Or even one who may commit a politically incorrect faux pas. But I have  – as all of us should — a real problem with, in this case, a potential president [...]

It is little wonder our country is in the mess it’s in. Why can’t we concentrate on what’s really important and get our priorities straight? We are in the middle of a presidential campaign to select the person who will be hopefully leading us in the right direction over the next four or eight years [...]

My hat off to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. In this nail-biting race between Obama and Clinton, every little word, every phrase, can be taken out of context, or mistrued, to damage one or the other, and most of the time, the words are not even uttered by either candidate. Such was the case last week [...]

Okay, I may not be the smartest guy in the world, but I wouldn’t put myself in the “dummy” category either. So am I missing something when I hear Hillary Clinton say that she would be the better candidate because she was able to beat Barack Obama in the big states like New York, California, [...]

Of all the things in life that piss me off, stupidity ranks near the top, especially when that stupidity causes the deaths of innocent people. In this case I’m referring to the Palestinians, or at least that percentage of them who refuse to bury their hatred of Israel and continue to bring death and destruction [...]

I wrote in an earlier column that the debates among the presidential candidates were a waste of time, simply because after listening to 90 minutes or so of rhetoric, we really didn’t learn anything substantial about the candidates. That was then. This is now. Since all but two in the Democratic race dropped out, we have [...]