Jeffdunetz | April 7, 2017
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Jeffdunetz | August 8, 2016
  Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) invented the quip about Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that "The most dangerous place is between him and a camera." As a resident of New York who has been represented by Schumer in the Senate for the past 17 years, I can attest to the fact there's never been an incident where Schumer's knocked over and hurt someone by barreling toward a camera…
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Jeffdunetz | July 31, 2016
Some Democrats did their best to demonstrate where they stood in the Israel/Palestinian conflict at their convention in Philadelphia last week (ironically known as "The City of Brotherly Love"). Many events inside and out of the Wells Fargo Center (where the main part of the convention was held) turned out to be anti-Israel hate-fests.  While they did not represent all the people at the…
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Jeffdunetz | July 24, 2016
In what may be an unprecedented development, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee  Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will not speak at, or even preside over, the Democratic convention - and is being pressured to resign - all because of the fury over the release of DNC emails by Wikileaks. The emails were released on Friday; by Saturday, it was announced that Ms. Wasserman-Schultz had lost…
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Jeffdunetz | July 14, 2016
On Tuesday, the Republican National Platform Committee unanimously adopted the most pro-Israel platform plank adopted by a political party in recent memory.  Presented by South Carolina delegate Alan Clemmons, in one fell swoop, a quarter-century of the standard, shopworn political language about Israel was tossed out and new platform language was adopted which: Places the GOP squarely behind…
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Jeffdunetz | July 11, 2016
According to a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the best way be put near the front of the line to receive food stamps is to have at least one Illegal Alien in the family. The study demonstrates that, at times, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) - also known as food stamps - provides benefits to families with an illegal…
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Jeffdunetz | July 7, 2016
Two Senate bills designed to protect American citizens from illegal immigrants died on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, Kate's law and a bill to defund cities that grant sanctuary to illegal immigrants. Each of the bills garnered support from a majority of senators - but not the 60 votes necessary to avoid a filibuster.  One of the two bills was Kate's Law, which would have strengthened…
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Jeffdunetz | July 1, 2016
According to most news reports following US Attorney General Loretta Lynch's Friday interview in Aspen Colorado, Lynch assured the public she would accept the FBI recommendation regarding whether or not Hillary Clinton would be prosecuted. The statement was in response to an "accidental" meeting between Lynch and Hillary Clinton's husband former president Bubba Clinton.  So, seems that justice…