Gary Ackerman: “He is beyond salvation.”

To try to blame that on the administration is like me trying to blame President Bush for Pluto being thrown out of the list of planets.

Today the Middle East is a very different region than the one I first encountered as a new Member of Congress in 1983.

The public is sick and tired of it, as they should be.

I still find it intriguing that people who are such really brilliant thinkers will sometimes reach conclusions that one might legitimately disagree with.