
 |
|
May 25, 2012
Mark Clayton: Is Hillary's State Dept. hacking Al Qaeda? Not quite
Erika Bolstad: Temple cancels Wasserman Schultz speech
The Kosher Gourmet by Ethel G. Hofman: The former president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, whose members included the likes of Julia Child, is back with contemporary Shavous cuisine: Ruby Fruit Soup, Sweet Noodle Kugel with Cheese, Key Lime Curd, Calsone Casserole Frittata with Wild Mushrooms, Sun-dried tomatoes and Olives, Baked Tilapia with Pepper Cheese Cream and Brown Sugar Shortbread
May 24, 2012
Jeff Jacoby: The peace process battered Israel's reputation
Michael Muskal: 'Pro-choice' position hits record low, according to poll
Chris Farrell: Are We in a Tech Bubble?
The Kosher Gourmet by Penelope Wall: PHILLY CHEESE STEAKS --- hold the steak!
May 23, 2012
Tony Pugh: More private colleges offering tuition discounts
Mary Beth Franklin: How to Choose the Right Annuity for You
Tina Susman: The wig wasn't enough: Man gets 13 years for posing as his dead mom
The Kosher Gourmet by Emma Christensen:A simple way to do fish right
May 22, 2012
Warren Richey: Can US group challenge overseas surveillance act? Supreme Court to decide
Thomas M. Anderson: Walking Away From a Mortgage
The Kosher Gourmet by Megan Gordon: Enjoy a celebration of the most rich and layered flavors: Black bean, sweet potato and quinoa chili
May 21, 2012
Mark Clayton: Cybersecurity: How US utilities passed up chance to protect their networks
Howard LaFranchi: NATO summit: Who will foot the bill for long-term Afghanistan security?
Chris Farrell : Earn Dividends in Emerging Markets with This WisdomTree ETF
Stephen Whiteside, Ph.D. : Mayo Clinic Medical Edge: Social anxiety disorder --- or just shy?
Guy Jackson : Victim's father regrets death of Lockerbie bomber
The Kosher Gourmet by Mario Batali: Famed chef's veal shoulder farsumagru: A festive meat course for late spring
May 18, 2012
Rabbi Berel Wein: Striving: The People of the Book's Book for (All of) the People
Steven Goldberg: 5 Great Stock Picks and the Exchange-Traded Fund that Owns Them
Mary Pickett, M.D.: Ask the Harvard Experts: Don't be forced into gluten-free lifestyle based merely on a doctor's false-positive test
The Kosher Gourmet by Carolyn Malcoun: DIY healthy lunchbox treats: HOMEMADE FRUIT BARS for kids and brown-bagging adults alike
May 17, 2012
Warren Richey: Teacher fired for being unwed and pregnant can sue religious school, court rules
Josh Mitnick: Netanyahu's 'centrist' coalition is already proving it's anything but
Steven Goldberg: Earn Dividends in Emerging Markets with This WisdomTree ETF
Amina Khan: Research links coffee to lower death rates
The Kosher Gourmet by Faith Duran : Cheesy Potato Breakfast Casserole with Cheddar and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
May 16, 2012
Carmen Terzic, M.D., Ph.D. : Mayo Clinic Medical Edge: A variety of exercises can help improve balance
Melissa Healy: National strategy on Alzheimer's disease aims to halt it by 2025
The Kosher Gourmet by Joyce White : GOODNESS GRACIOUS: GREENS! 4 winning recipes that are no longer just for down-home folks (Includes expert tips & techniques)
May 15, 2012
Kristen Chick: Obama administration resumes arms sales to Bahrain despite serious unresolved human rights issues. Activists feel abandoned
Pat Mertz Esswein: Homes are now affordable again and mortgage rates are low. What you need to know before you buy
Kathy Kristof: Our Practical Investor Fights Inflation with These 6 Investments
Sue Hubbard, M.D.: The Kid's Doctor: Lactose intolerant young child? Check again
The Kosher Gourmet by Kathy Hunt: Spread a Little Excitement with EXOTIC CONDIMENTS (4 RECIPES)
May 14, 2012
Lisa Gerstner: How to Protect Your Identity, Finances If You Lose Your Phone
Harvard Health Letters: Heart disease and dementia
The Kosher Gourmet by Megan Gordon: MANGO COCONUT OAT MORNING MUFFINS are a bright but hearty delight
May 11, 2012
Jessica L. Anderson: Get the Best Deal on a Used Car
Jett Stone: Forget face-lifts and fake knees. Scientists have seen the fountain of youth --- and it's broccoli
The Kosher Gourmet by Chef Mario Batali: The famed chef's vegetable dish that tastes true to the season: FAVAS AND SUGAR SNAP PEAS WITH POTATOES AND TARRAGON
May 10, 2012
Sergei L. Loiko: Putin sends warning to U.S., NATO in Victory Day speech at Red Square
Mary Rourke: How being a 'mentch' got Vidal Sasoon his start and fighting in Israel's War of Independence provided him with confidence and a strong sense of his own identity
Jeff Bertolucci: Get Home Phone Service for Less Than $10 a Month
The Kosher Gourmet by Betty Rosbottom: Gleaming with its golden, crimson, and snowy white hues, this silken smooth and creamy STRAWBERRY ORANGE TRIFLE looks impressive, but is easy to prepare
May 9, 2012
Sharon Palmer, R.D. How you can reduce your risk -- or delay -- chronic diseases associated with aging
|
| |
Jewish World Review
June 22, 2010
/ 10 Tamuz 5770
Don't you know there's a war on?
By
Wesley Pruden
| 
|
|
|
| |
|
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
The only relief we can count on in the Gulf will be from the drilling crews of British Petroleum. That's something to keep in mind as the lynch mob races to find a hanging tree, armed with blind hysteria and a coil of seagrass rope.
BP drilling crews, working on the two relief wells, have drilled past the 5,000-foot mark, with another 8,000 feet to go to reach that vast pool of oil beneath the Gulf. The relief wells should intersect the runaway gusher in August. Once they do the plan is to shoot heavy drilling mud down the bore hole, then plug it with concrete.
Wendell Guidry, the drilling superintendent, says it's "anyone's guess" which of the two wells will intersect the gusher first. "The main thing is, we try to keep the guys focused. We're just treating this like any other well that we drill."
The drillers, like stoic working men everywhere, focus on the job at hand, leaving the blame game and the hysteria-mongering to the politicians and pundits who wouldn't know a drill bit from a crescent wrench. For its part the media's Gaffe Patrol is still lobbing minie balls at Rep. Joe Barton, the Republican congressman from Texas, who foolishly and clumsily tried to make the point that BP is not the only villain in the piece and the geniuses in the White House, despite the president's brave declaration of war on an oil slick, are more interested in shooting holes in the opposition than plugging a hole in the ocean floor.
The Gaffe Patrol found another target over the weekend, lollygagging off the southern coast of England. There the hapless Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, was found watching his 52-foot yacht race other lollygaggers around the Isle of Wight.
Mr. Hayward's company is racing now to buy up all the stray lobbying and public-relations advice on K Street. Such advice is expensive though not necessarily worth it. An office boy in Shreveport or Baton Rouge could have told Mr. Hayward that leaving Louisiana for a yacht race was not a good idea. (Get away to a NASCAR race, maybe, but not a yacht race.)
President Obama, who earlier dispatched Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to ride off in three directions toward New Orleans to find someone to sue, or jail, or hang, can actually contribute something positive by keeping his bureaucrats off the backs of the drilling crews, the only people who know what they're doing. The president has plenty of partisan allies working to fuel the hysteria. Two Democratic senators, Barbara Boxer of California and Bill Nelson of Florida, urge the president to send the Navy to take over the clean-up. The Navy has bigger guns than the Coast Guard and bang away to make bigger splashes in the ocean, or some really big holes in the sand. The smoke and noise would impress the well-oiled pelicans, if nobody else.
It's clearly long past time to find somebody to shoot. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who obviously doesn't understand the situation, stubbornly declines to descend into panic. "We have offered whatever capabilities we have," he told the senators. "We don't have the kinds of equipment or particular expertise [to deal with the runaway well]."
We're just not the mature nation we used to be. Once upon a time we dealt with emergencies as if they were emergencies. The Coast Guard wouldn't have stopped an oil-sucking ship to see whether it carried adequate flashlights and fire extinguishers.
Early in World War II, the government, desperate for boats, gave Andrew Higgins a contract for 50 tank-landing boats, or "tank lighters," if he could deliver them in 16 days. When his superintendent told him the shipyard didn't have enough steel, Higgins found a supply at a Birmingham mill. But there was no freight train immediately available to take the steel to New Orleans. Higgins persuaded the Southern Railway to attach flat cars to a passenger train - the first and only time the railroad had ever done that. Once at the yard there was no room to fabricate the rush order, so Higgins "borrowed" the street that ran past the shipyard and the production line was put there, under tents, for a week. The tank lighters were delivered on time. The only neighbor who complained was a bordello madam who said "all that racket is disturbing romance." No one else dared invite the all-purpose conversation-stopping rebuke: "Don't you know there's a war on?"
Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.
JWR contributor Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times. Comment by clicking here.
Wesley Pruden Archives
© 2007 Wesley Pruden
|
|

Arnold Ahlert
Mitch Albom
Jay Ambrose
Michael Barone
Barrywood
Lori Borgman
Stratfor Briefing
Mona Charen
Linda Chavez
Richard Z. Chesnoff
Ann Coulter
Greg Crosby
Alan Douglas
Larry Elder
Suzanne Fields
Frank J. Gaffney
Bernie Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg
Julia Gorin
Jonathan Gurwitz
Paul Greenberg
Argus Hamilton
Victor Davis Hanson
Betsy Hart
Ron Hart
Nat Hentoff
Marybeth Hicks
A. Barton Hinkle
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Renee James
Paul Johnson
Jack Kelly
Ed Koch
Ch. Krauthammer
Michael Ledeen
John Leo
David Limbaugh
Kathryn Lopez
Rich Lowry
Michelle Malkin
Jackie Mason
Ann McFeatters
Dale McFeatters
Dana Milbank
Jeanne Moos
Dick Morris
Jim Mullen
Deroy Murdock
Judge A. Napolitano
Bill O'Reilly
Kathleen Parker
Star Parker
Dennis Prager
Wesley Pruden
Tom Purcell
Sharon Randall
Robert Robb
Cokie & Steve Roberts
Heather Robinson
Pat Sajak
Debra J. Saunders
Martin Schram
Culture Shlock
David Shribman
Roger Simon
Michael Smerconish
Thomas Sowell
Ben Stein
Mark Steyn
John Stossel
Cal Thomas
Dan Thomasson
Bob Tyrrell
Ben Wattenberg
Diana West
Dave Weinbaum
George Will
Walter Williams
Byron York
ZeitGeist
Mort Zuckerman

Robert Arial
Chuck Asay
Baloo
Chip Bok
Dry Bones
Lisa Benson
John Branch
John Cole
J. D. Crowe
John Deering
Brian Duffy
Everything's Relative
Mallard Fillmore
Glenn Foden
Jake Fuller
Bob Gorrel
Walt Handelsman
Joe Heller
David Hitch
Jerry Holbert
David Horsey
Lee Judge
Steve Kelley
Jeff Koterba
Dick Locher
Chan Lowe
Jimmy Margulies
Jack Ohman
Michael Ramirez
Drew Sheneman
Kevin Siers
Jeff Stahler
Scott Stantis
Ed Stein
Danna Summers
John Trever
Gary Varvel
Kirk Walters
Dan Wasserman

Mr. Know-It-All
Ask Doctor K
Richard Lederer
Frugal Living
Tech Maven
On Nutrition
Bookmark These
Bruce Williams
|