Homeland Security vs. Your Civil Rights

BY DIANE DIMOND The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The amendment assures us that only when law enforcement has “probable cause” to suspect a person of a crime, may their space be violated. […]

A “Direct” Way to Lower Health Costs

BY DICK RESCH Has America tamed the health-cost monster? The data seem to indicate as much. Health spending has grown by about 4 percent annually over the past four years — the lowest rate in half a century. But our apparent victory may be short-lived. Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation estimate that the recession […]

Remembering Forgotten Vets

BY DIANE DIMOND For this Band of Brothers, the Vietnam War never ended. Forty years after the fighting stopped they continue their struggle to be recognized as part of the unenviable group poisoned by the deadly herbicide Agent Orange. These men who dedicated years to the U.S. military were stationed at Andersen Air Force Base […]

ObamaCare — What’s Already Gone Wrong

BY MICHAEL D. TANNER This article appeared in the New York Post on September 25, 2013. Like the Yankees sputtering through the last few games of a season filled with injuries and frustration, ObamaCare is limping its way toward its official launch next Tuesday, dragging with it an ever larger trail of disappointments. Supporters of […]

Letter to the Editor: DO HAREDI SECTS DIVIDE JEWS UNFAIRLY?

Dear Editor, It has been said by some residents of Rockland County that God has no place in the lives of those Jews who do not follow the tenets of the Haredi sects. They may be correct regarding a portion of secular Judaism, but they have insulted members of Modern Orthodox, Conservative, reform and other […]

Letter to the Editor: READER BLAMES “THEM”

To the Editor, These incidents in Syria are part of a civil war. Let them have their civil war. It has nothing to do with us. Terms like “moral obscenity” and “moral injustice” to describe these atrocities are inflated rhetoric at best. We had our civil war, we killed our own people. We kill millions, […]