There are few Jewish journalists I like and respect as much as Samuel Freedman,‭ ‬a distinguished‭ ‬professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Pulitzer-prize nominee,‭ ‬which is why if he criticizes me I take it seriously.

The unemployment rate rose in Florida in November, moving up from 4.8 percent to 4.9 percent even as Gov. Rick Scott announced the creation of 31,600 new private sector jobs. 

Let's face it. There is a certain faction of the Jewish community that will never, ever, ever, ever, ever accept Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison as Democratic National Committee Chair, no matter what he does, or how he does it. 

Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that Russia was our   principal geopolitical adversary. Yet today the Dems are in high dudgeon over the closeness of secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, to Vladimir Putin.