Tonight in Charleston, The Confederate Heritage Trust is holding what it calls “a theatrical performance and secession ball’’ to mark the 150th anniversary of the secession of South Carolina from the United States. For $100, guests will see a 45 minute play “re-enacting the signing of the original Ordinance of Secession with Senators and famous …
In an article that appeared in The Washington Post, Michael Waldman, a former speechwriter for President Clinton, points out that while members of the Tea Party and other right wingers like Michele Bachman say they are committed to upholding the Constitution, they in fact favor changing the Constitution in countless ways. Here are some Waldman …
According to an article by Joanne Impey of AFP on the website Deutsche Welle, “a team of scientists identified an embalmed head as that of King Henri IV of France, who was assassinated in 1610. . . .The head was apparently lost after a mob of revolutionaries desecrated the graves of French kings in the …
I was sorry to see government officials like Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton overreacting to last week’s Wikileaks’ data drop, but it’s appalling to see CNN trying to poke a reaction by asking “Is Julian Assange a terrorist or a journalist?”, which the network did on a December 12th broadcast. FBI profiler Greg McCrary toed …
Way to go, Ron Paul! The iconolclastic Texas Congressman Ron Paul has rousingly defended speech WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange on the floor of the House of Representatives. “Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?” asked Paul. He went on to compare …
In his recent review in The New Yorker of a number of books about the entity known as late-night television, Louis Menand recounts the famous evening when Dick Cavett hosted Gore Vidal, Janet Flanner and a drunken, obsteperous Norman Mailer. I don’t recall if I saw the original program in 1971 (my senior year of …
Angry over tuition increases, protesters in London trashed the limo in which Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are riding yesterday.
Jet fans could not take much pleasure in the thumping they received at the hands of the Patriots in frigid Gillette Stadium in Foxboro on Monday night, the sight of the wind playfully mussing Donald Trump‘s hair warmed my heart.
Hot Dining! Hot Dancing! Hot Dames! Cathy, Jo, Ginny and Susan shimmy with the pulchritudinous belly dancer Evangelia at Santorini in Tarrytown last night.