As Michael Falcone and Amy Walter wrote this morning on ABC’s The Note, “Libya is fast becoming a situation with profound political consequences here at home, as ABC’s Jonathan Karl noted on “This Week”: “If Gadhafi is still in power next year, if Libya is still a mess, this will be a central issue for …
My backyard after last night’s rain, the second very large storm this week. It looks like a lot of water, but the mighty Pocantico is already receding.
I had a fun time the other night at First Anniversary Dinner of the Writers’ Center at Hunter College, which was held at Doubles at the Sherry Netherland Hotel. The best part was catching up with Bruce Jay Friedman, the maestro, and with Patty Marx, the dryly hilarious shopping correspondent of The New York. For …
Michael Moore spoke at a rally in Wisconsin last Friday, and here is what he said: “Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The …
Three cheers for Craig Ferguson, who explained on his program why he wasn’t going to make jokes about Charlie Sheen anymore, which is because the dud is mentally ill. (This isn’t my armchair diagnosis, but that of my fried Dr. Howard Samuels, the noted therapist. “Charlie Sheen is a hardcore drug addict,” he said last …
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One hundred fifty years ago today, in the midst of secession and under threat of civil war, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the sixteenth president of the United States. His inaugural address, a firm and passionate explanation of his policies and intentions, closed with some of the most beautiful and stirring phrases …
By a vote of 8-1, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the First Amendment protects the right of a fringe church to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals. As the Washington Post put it, the decision “writes a new chapter in the court’s findings that freedom of speech is so central to the nation that …
Stories In The New York Times How retro: 2011’s hot new trend is. . . anti-semitism! just today, in the front section alone: Yemen’s beleaguered president Ali Abdullah Saleh blames Israel and the US for uprisings in the Arab world; hotshit Dior designer John Galliano (now ex-) is going to face charges for saying that …
Two very interesting, fairly contradictory stories about young men, have recently appeared. In Slate, Mark Regnerus says that while young men are struggling in the world, especially in contrast with young women, they are still finding it fairly easy to bed young women. “We keep hearing that young men are failing to adapt to contemporary …