Sage Commentary

Apparently neither Vice President Joe Biden nor Repr. Barney Frank, D-MA, ever learned the wisdom of the adage: If you have an opportunity to stay silent, take it.

The State Department official calling for new taxes on the oil industry shows his stork still had too much altitude when he dropped him.

Both Barney Frank and Joe Biden provide good arguments for better altimeters for storks.

Honesty pays, they say, but apparently not enough for people like Bernard Madoff and some politicians.

A Congressional committee: A number of politicians who individually can’t do anything, but as a group can decide that nothing can be done.

A liberal fanatic is someone who is so narrow minded that if he poked a finger in his eye, he could blind himself in both eyes.

President Barack Obama speaks as if he knows a lot about a lot of things, but it’s what he can’t know and what he “knows” that ain’t so that scares me.

It’s unwise to either fool with a bee, or be with a fool.

A scary thought: If something happened to both President Obama and Vice President Biden before a new V.P. was named, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president! That should drive a lot of people to pray for the safety of our president.

A good marriage has plenty of love in its most noble form: forgiveness.

If a married couple loves each other intensely and often; and make forgiveness their noblest expression of love, their marriage will stand against any threat.







					September 30, 2009 U.S. Ignores Its Own Deadline on Iran By Dore Gold Iran’s new proposal to the West did not provide any opening for serious negotiations on the nuclear issue, but rather vague formulations for the agenda of any future talks. Back in July, when the G-8 announced that the opening of the UN General Assembly “would be an occasion for taking stock of the situation in Iran,” most international observers understood that there was a hard September deadline that Iran had to meet to begin serious nuclear negotiations. Unfortunately, at this stage, there is little evidence that the Obama administration is about to adopt effective action in a timely manner in light of Iran’s policy of rejectionism, setting aside diplomatic engagement and moving to a policy of severe sanctions. Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently acknowledged that the Iranian stockpile of low-enriched uranium has already reached a sufficient level so that it was possible to talk about Tehran having “a dangerous and destabilizing possible breakout capacity.” Tehran undoubtedly observed that no serious action was taken against North Korea for its nuclear breakout, either by the Bush or Obama administrations. The common assumption in Washington policy circles today is that even if Iran reaches the nuclear finish-line, the U.S. can fall back on the same Cold War deterrence that was used against the Soviet nuclear arsenal. However, Iran is a true revolutionary power whose aspirations extend into the oil-producing states. It is involved in both the Afghan and Iraqi insurgencies, while its support for terrorism reaches into Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan. With Iran threatening the flow of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as well, through which roughly 40 percent of the world’s oil flows, the nuclearization of Iran has global - and not just Middle Eastern - implications. In 2003-2005, Tehran engaged with the EU-3 for two years, exploiting the talks to race ahead with construction of key uranium enrichment facilities, while fending off punitive measures by the UN Security Council for three entire years. Iran today is far more advanced than it was then and the time for diplomatic experimentation is extremely limited. Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in 1997-1999. He is the author of The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West (Regnery, 2009).


		Apparently neither Vice President Joe Biden nor Repr. Barney Frank, D-MA, ever learned the wisdom of the adage: If you have an opportunity to stay silent, take it. The State Department official calling for new taxes on the oil industry shows his stork still had too much altitude when he dropped him. Both Barney Frank and Joe Biden provide good arguments for better altimeters for storks. Honesty pays, they say, but apparently not enough for people like Bernard Madoff and some politicians. A Congressional committee: A number of politicians who individually can’t do anything, but as a group can decide that nothing can be done. A liberal fanatic is someone who is so narrow minded that if he poked a finger in his eye, he could blind himself in both eyes. President Barack Obama speaks as if he knows a lot about a lot of things, but it’s what he can’t know and what he “knows” that ain’t so that scares me. It’s unwise to either fool with a bee, or be with a fool. A scary thought: If something happened to both President Obama and Vice President Biden before a new V.P. was named, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president! That should drive a lot of people to pray for the safety of our president. A good marriage has plenty of love in its most noble form: forgiveness. If a married couple loves each other intensely and often; and make forgiveness their noblest expression of love, their marriage will stand against any threat.