“The VA is just IRS spelled differently” BY JERRY DONNELLAN Director, Veterans Service Agency of Rockland County Since I came to be director of Rockland County Veterans Service Agency in 1992, the veteran population has dropped in half and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The basic reason for this […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Last year’s tally is now in, and the news story that garnered the most searches on the Internet was … (can I get a drum roll, please?) … A crime story! Before I get to the winner, may I just say that life, as a crime and justice columnist, is sometimes a […]
To the Editor, On January 15, 2013, on the very first day of the legislative session, the New York State Legislature passed the most sweeping draconian gun control laws in the nation. The so-called NY SAFE Act had nothing to do with public safety, and everything to do with pushing Andrew Cuomo’s political agenda and […]
Thomas Sowell decries ‘the truly despicable intervention’ by Eric Holder COLUMN BY THOMAS SOWELL Anyone who has still not yet understood the utter cynicism of the Obama administration in general, and Attorney General Eric Holder in particular, should look at the Justice Department’s latest interventions in education. If there is one thing people all across […]
By General David Irvine, Ambassador James R. Jones, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering and Judge William S. Sessions Shortly after the Abu Ghraib photographs became public, Secretary of State Colin Powell described telling foreign audiences, “Watch America. Watch how we deal with this. Watch how America will do the right thing. Watch what a nation of […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Most of us have been at a border at some point in our lives and have faced the expected scrutiny that greets anybody leaving or entering the country. At this point in history, when illegal immigration, the drug wars and terrorism are on the minds of just about every border patrol agent […]