By Norman Berdichevsky
An issue that has been debated at least since the time of Socrates is “Can art or philosophy be divorced from politics?”
Self-proclaimed defenders of what they like to call “pure art” have chosen as a classic example of political censorship the informal ban…
By Norman Berdichevsky
Two of the most honestly gruesome films of barbaric atrocities in modern times ever made are the Russian film ‘The Chekist’ and the Polish film ‘Katyn’.
‘The Chekist’ was directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1992 Cannes Film Festival Award) but hardly rated mention anywhere in the United States. The unbelievable atrocities of torture and mass execution seen in the film were all confirmed by factual articles in Pravda in 1921-22…
I tried to explain that without education and confronting the many distortions and outright lies about the past, it would be impossible to prevent an avalanche of support for Obama in 2012 from a public that has been subject to decades of intellectual intimidation from the Left in academia, the media, among our writers and film producers through the media of literature and Hollywood films.
By Norman Berdichevsky
On November 7th, the political landscape will have changed and the Democrats will no longer have the Jewish community sewn into their back pockets.
This is a healthy development and one that bodes well both for the political process because no ethnic group is cast in stone.
By Norman Berdichevsky
As the election nears, it has become more and more obvious that the Democrats’ campaign mistakenly portrayed Romney as a cartoon figure – the heartless, plutocrat-capitalist-aloof-super-wealthy, bigoted, ultra-conservative ignoring all the evidence that…
By Norman Berdichevsky
A great deal of debate followed the Vice Presidential debate regarding the laughter and body language of Joe Biden.
On his post-debate talk show, T.V. Journalist Sean Hannity continually referred to Biden’s laughter and smiles as unintentional and uncontrollable much like that of someone mentally ill who cannot distinguish…
By Norman Berdichevsky
The latest misnamed “demonstrations” across Egypt, Libya, Pakistan and in twenty Muslim majority countries underscores the unholy alliance with the media.
Most notably television, with its penchant for visual representation of the “news” that capitalizes on the public’s desire for understanding of significant information and instead provides macabre entertainment highlighting blood and mayhem like dozens of Hollywood Grade C horror movies…
By Norman Berdichevsky
Jihad is directed not “just” against the unbelievers (the kaffirs, i.e., non-Mulsims), but all those who have “deviated” — the Shi’ites, the Alawites, the Ahmadis, the Druze, Bahais, Yazidis, etc.
It is holy war by armed resistance to all those who do not accept Muhammad’s message as interpreted by the sacred traditions hallowed by all the schools of Sunni jurisprudence…
By Norman Berdichevsky
Never before at any political convention has any comparable act told the viewing and listening audience that at least half a major party’s delegates hold Jews in contempt and trample upon their most cherished sentiments.
It was as if the editorial writer had simply been deaf, dumb and blind to the last 40 months of the Obama administration, the cold shoulder shown to Prime Minister Netanyahu, the failure to enforce sanctions against the mullahs…
By Norman Berdichevsky
Dinesh D’Souza is an engaging, attractive dark skinned immigrant from India whose life and career follows in parallel with Obama’s – born and married in the same years and able to judge American institutions and values from a third world perspective.
The film does not accept any of the more controversial attacks on Obama’s biography but seeks to explain how his own words and thoughts cited continually throughout the film from the President’s autobiography…
By Norman Berdichevsky
Lincoln has long been a hero of the Left lionized primarily as the author of the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery and preserver of the Union.
He is also the only president to have ‘temporarily’ suspended habeus corpus and freedom of the press, steps taken in order to preserve the Union but criticized widely by those who believed he had violated his oath of office.
By Norman Berdichevsky
This tradition faulting the Left persists in many languages such as Latin (sinistra), from which we derive ‘sinister’ indicating evil, dangerous, mistrusted, suspicious although originally meaning simply “Left”.
The French word for “left” is gauche, which in English means “awkward” or “tactless.” The English word left comes from Old English meaning “weak.”
