Lawrence Baron

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Vice-President Biden announced he will be out of the country when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.  A growing number of Democratic senators are considering boycotting his speech too prompting ZOA to charge that this is just another manifestation of the BDS movement, Bibi’s Democratic Snub. * Brian Williams […]

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ After weeks of appalling atrocities committed by ISIS and Boko Haram, terrorism experts are looking back nostalgically to the good old days when terrorists only hijacked airplanes and negotiated their release for ransom money or the release of imprisoned compatriots. * Archeologists have discovered that ancient humans ate psychedelic mushrooms.  

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Radio talk show host Bryan Fischer was fired from his job as issues analyst for the American Family Association this week.   Fischer helped the AFA organize a free Israel junket for the Republican National Committee, but his controversial view that the United States is a Christian nation which does not

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The American Ambassador to Israel met with Bibi Netanyahu to teach him the diplomatic version of the game Red Rover.  If the leader of the other side doesn’t say you can come over, stay at home. * The FCC has issued a directive that the Weather Channel now has the

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will tell Congress that Israel faces an imminent nuclear attack if Iran is allowed to manufacture an atom bomb.  At the end of his speech, he will urge American Jews to make Aliyah to Israel because it is the only place Jews can be safe. *

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Dovish political parties opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies have violated diplomatic protocol by inviting President Obama to address the Knesset.  Just kidding!  Inviting the leader of another country to interfere in the elections and foreign relations of one’s own could never happen─ at least not in Israel. * Worried that

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Mitt Romney told the National Republican Committee in San Diego County that he plans to make eradicating poverty a key part of his 2016 presidential candidacy.  Stepping back from his 2012 campaign gaffe, he declared, “I want to elevate the 47 % into the 1 % and rename the current 1

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Asking journalists to exercise more discretion instead of mocking other religions, Pope Francis asserted that if someone cursed his mother, he would punch him.  Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? * Syria released a report about its economy indicating that oil was no longer its biggest export product.  It

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Two scientists from Johns Hopkins University have concluded that the cause of two-thirds of all cancers is luck and not behavior, environment, or heredity.  In their next study they will distinguish between the variables that cause benign rather than malignant luck. * Sylvester Stallone has announced his plan to produce

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Republican Steve Scalise, the Majority Whip in the House of Representatives, claims he was unaware that David Duke’s European-American Unity and Rights Organization was a racist group when he delivered a speech at its annual conference in 2002.  Critics wonder how he could have overlooked that the dress code for

By Laurie Baron January –The Russian police have alerted spectators at the Sochi Olympics to be on the outlook for several “Black Widow Terrorists, women from Dagestan whose husbands were killed by Russian anti-terrorist squads.  There are posters throughout the Olympic venues informing spectators how to identify these women:  If you meet a woman on

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ North Korea has accused the government of the United States of involvement in the making of The Interview because Hollywood would never voluntarily make a tasteless comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco.  Moreover, North Korea denied it had anything to do with the hacking of SONY Pictures and threatened