Thank God for air conditioning. A scorching Labor Day weekend found me home-bound, doing research on New York Times columnist Mr. Frank Rich. Unlike most of my conservative acquaintances, I love The New York Times. Just stay off the op-ed pages. The ...
Recently, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter. And just the other day, China was calculated to have overtaken Japan as the second largest economy in the world. China is on a roll, or even on a tear, if you prefer. It is ...
Judging by the hijinks and makeup on display at the recently-concluded World Cup, soccer, of all sports, certainly has the most crazed fans. Good for them. But I find it almost as boring as baseball. At the other extreme, the game of croquet is one ...
Patrick Buchanan commented on Friday about the cashiering of General Stanley McChrystal. Buchanan focused upon the dissimilarities between Obama’s firing of McChrystal and President Harry Truman’s firing of General Douglas MacArthur in ...
Last Thursday, somebody stuck a video camera into the mug of legendary White House reporter and commentator Helen Thomas. She was taking a walk on the White House lawn, apparently with a friend. Thomas was asked to comment about Israel. Somewhere ...
Is Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless the most overrated movie of all time? Of course not. At least, I don’t think so. However, eleven months ago I was watching the Criterion Collection DVD of it at home, and thinking to myself “This ...
Word reached these shores last week that Professor Noam Chomsky—the celebrated public intellectual, activist, linguist, philosopher and all-round “left-wing” critic of U.S. foreign policy—had been detained for five hours by ...
A recent report by Scott McConnell, editor-at-large of The American Conservative, that Emperor BarackO, Proconsul Hillary Clinton, and the Praetorian General, David Petraeus, have “crossed the Rubicon” in dealing with the runaway ...
Let’s see. We have an oil gusher out of control in the Gulf of Mexico with no end in sight, threatening the coastline all the way down to Miami, a New York stock exchange which can be launched into a thousand-point nose dive apparently by the ...
My tailor is just one shade lighter than Obama. He is from the Dominican Republic, and speaks Spanish most of the time when he’s not speaking to me. He’s a hard-working, legal immigrant who loves baseball, fishing, and photography. ...
Zurich has a reputation for being stodgy, but it ain’t so, at least not after hours. On one of my first visits, I met a Dublin girl by the name of Mary O"Connell downstairs at the hotel bar, which was ...
Soon after starting from “Junction” the first time on the Cresta Run, my mind went racing, “This cannot be happening. I am going way too fast and there is no control. Why didn’t somebody warn me?” Somehow I made it ...
