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.
Paul Krugman is unhappy. “After the Democratic “shellacking” in the midterm elections,” he writes in today’s Times, “everyone wondered how President Obama would respond. Would he show what he was made of? Would he stand firm for the values he believes in, even in the face of political adversity? On Monday, we got the answer: …
It’s rare to get a phone call from a fan; it’s totally unprecedented when the caller is Mort Kunstler, one of the premier artists of Civil War themes, and one of the premier illustrators of his era. Kunstler has been reading the Disunion series in the Times, and much to my delight, offered me a …
Sunday on The Chris Matthews Show, during the “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment, Reihan Salam of National Review said “Conservative backlash against the TSA is just part of a huge revival of civl liberties talk on the right. We’re going to see more of it in the next couple of years.” First, all …
Most of my liberal friends (yes, true, that’s practically the only people I know) are mystified by the success of Sarah Palin. They don’t like her positions, they are condescending about her background and preparation, and they are disdainful of her intellect. For what it’s worth, the more I think about politics, the more I’ve …