Lawrence Baron

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which permits business owners to discriminate against any customer whose lifestyle offends their religious sensibilities.  Although critics believe the law sanctions discrimination against the LGBT community, it already is having unintended consequences with Christian Scientists barring doctors from reading rooms, […]

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A Knesset member from the Zionist Union has called for the dismissal of Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States who arranged for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, as a first-step to improve American-Israeli relations.  A Knesset member from the Likud Party reacted by calling for the impeachment of

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Angered by Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and late campaign renunciation of support for the Two State solution, President Obama waited until two days after the Israeli election to phone the Prime Minister to congratulate him on his victory.  To add insult to injury, it was a collect call. *

“Israeli Election Roundup” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It’s March Madness time in Israel.  Pundits are crunching numbers and filling out brackets, trying to figure out what the composition of the next Israeli coalition government will be. * Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Likud had a “great victory.”  This bolsters his claim that he speaks for

  By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Confident that the Senate possesses the constitutional power to warn Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei that it could reject any nuclear agreement signed by President Obama, the forty-seven Republicans who signed the letter are now planning to open embassies in countries around the world. * During a campaign speech in New

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Reports have surfaced that Edward Snowden is negotiating with Federal authorities to return to the United States if two of his demands can be met: 1) he will only be charged with hacking instead of espionage; 2) he can retain the same lawyer who got General David Petraeus such a

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ President Obama chided Americans for having the lowest voter participation rate among Western nations.  Fox News cited this as another instance of how he doesn’t love America and pointed to the high audience voting rate for American Idol to disprove his charge. * Boko Haram pledged allegiance to ISIS prompting

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Based on its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, the Department of Justice concluded that Ferguson’s police exhibited a pattern of racism against African Americans in arrests, fining, car and pedestrian stops, ticketing, and the use of force and dogs.  In an addendum the DOJ revealed that the highest ranking

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The Horowitz Freedom Center has identified several more universities where anti-Semitism is so rampant that pogroms have occurred there.  When the story was checked out, it was discovered that student theatre ensembles on each of these campuses had been performing Fiddler on the Roof. * ISIS issued a threat against

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Angered that the Senate passed a “clean” bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, House Republicans proposed a three week funding extension of DHS expecting that ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other Islamic terrorist groups will be defeated by interim but then voted against the measure.  Apparently, John Boehner prefers