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Netanyahu at UN Parley Sounds Wake Up Call On Lebanon

By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun

September 29, 2020

Never let a United Nations milestone, if at a point of failure, go to waste. That may well have been the motto of Israels Prime Minister Netanyahu in addressing today the United Nations General Assembly via video from Jerusalem. Ignoring well-worn...

Democrats Emerging As Heirs To Know-Nothing Party

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun

September 29, 2020

The Democrats have essentially given up on blocking the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This does not imply, however, that they will fail to turn her hearings into a nasty farce of smears of the nominee as an adherent to...

Staggering Is the Word for Suggestions Barrett Recuse Herself on the Election

Editorial of The New York Sun

September 29, 2020

It looks like the Democrats are going to try to hector Judge Amy Coney Barrett into recusing herself from any cases on the election. One of the things I want to ask her, Senator Cory Booker told NBC in respect of the pending confirmation hearing...

Why the Democrats Really Fear Amy Coney Barrett

Editorial of The New York Sun

September 27, 2020

The feature of Judge Amy Coney Barretts confirmation hearing to which were most looking forward is the possibility that she will lash herself to the mast of the Constitution. She once did this while answering questions at a lecture at Notre Dame...

Ocasio-Cortezs Snub of Rabin Event Is Harbinger of Democrats

By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun

September 26, 2020

Miss Ocasio-Cortez regrets shes unable to PeaceNow today. Evoking Cole Porters Miss Otis Regrets, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just let it be known that she will be a no-show at the event at which Americans for Peace Now will commemorate...

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Is It Inevitable That After Brexit Scots Will Quit United Kingdom?

Time, Says Our Brexit Diariest, for Boris Johnson To Honor Old Fashioned Ideas He Once Extolled

By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun

September 26, 2020

Centralization is the death-blow of public freedom. So Benjamin Disraeli declared. It is the citadel of the oligarchs from which, if once erected, it will be impossible to dislodge them. So why is Boris Johnson flouting this most cherished...

Canada Could Yet Emerge As a World Power

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun

September 26, 2020

Without it ever having been a matter of national debate or even public articulation, Canadas foreign policy has evolved in the post-Cold War era to one of relatively tenuous connection to traditional allies and a nebulous pursuit of popularity in the...

Biden Threatens To Put Spanner Into Brexit Deal

By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun

September 16, 2020

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce. Thus declares Benjamin Disraeli in his novel, Endymion. As prime minister, however, Dizzy set aside such literary license, leaping at any opportunity to sell English...