Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you. In fact, rumors about Hillary’s sexuality have dogged her for as long as rumors about Bill’s infidelity have dogged him. Except that, where Bill’s indiscretions soon confirmed rumors about him, Hillary’s discretion always kept them in doubt about her. But things changed in 1992, when they… Read more.
I’m on record stating how much I dislike the Oscars. I have little regard for preening, pampered poseurs showing off their borrowed frocks and bling-bling as a prelude to a three-hour show — only six minutes of which anyone really cares about (i.e., the time it takes to present Oscars for actor and actress in a… Read more.
As improbable as it seemed when I launched this weblog, today marks the 11th anniversary of The iPINIONS Journal. Remarkably enough, I enjoy writing my commentaries even more now than I did back then. It might be a little more challenging, but I have no doubt I’ll be writing them for at least another eleven years.… Read more.
Justice Antonin Scalia, whose transformative legal theories, vivid writing and outsize personality made him a leader of a conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the Supreme Court, was found dead on Saturday at a resort in West Texas… ‘He was an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues,’ Chief Justice… Read more.
A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in… Read more.
I pledged over a year ago to eschew commenting on this presidential campaign because nobody can do so without compromising his dignity. I trust the reason for this is self-evident. I have essentially honored my pledge, despite constant entreaties from friends, real and virtual. But sometimes the entreaty was too much. Such was the case… Read more.
For years, I’ve been decrying the hot air that passes for smart talk at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here – from “Why All the Fuss about the World Economic Forum,” January 30, 2006 – is a sample of the informed contempt I developed over a decade ago. _________________ The World Economic Forum … is… Read more.
The National Anthem Whitney Houston set what might be an unsurpassable bar with her rendition at Super Bowl 25 in 1991. But, arguably, Lady Gaga came as close as any singer has since then. Of course, you can be forgiven if you were surprised – not just by how elegant she looked, but also by… Read more.
Watching a Bloomberg Politics breakfast with Team Clinton yesterday, I got the impression I was spying on a secret meeting of an all-white book club. SMH. “With all due respect,” I’m feeling the Bern more than ever today. I would like nothing more than to see Bernie do to Hillary in 2016 what Barack did to her… Read more.
