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Bob Woodward’s charges that top national security staff find themselves compelled to protect the world from President Donald Trump should, in any normal time, precipitate an almost unprecedented national emergency. The revelations, in the veteran reporter’s new book, are so stark and shocking because they flesh out a narrative that the President’s critics have long… Read more.
Justices Republican presidents [nominate] invariably vote on the side of issues that affirms conservative ideology; whereas those Democratic presidents [nominate] invariably vote on the side that affirms liberal ideology. (“Supreme Court Rules Voter ID Laws OK,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 18, 2014) These days, every nominee to the Supreme Court testifies that judges should serve… Read more.
And Clyde the glide takes my side. (That’s Frazier … with apologies to Drexler.) I took a lot of flak for pooh-poohing LeBron James’s (presumed) greatness after he made that fateful decision to “take his talents to Miami.” Here is how I explained my disappointment and cast my judgement in “LeBron Abandons Cleveland for Miami,”… Read more.
Meghan McCain’s eulogy of her father evoked the kind of approving gasps not heard since the Earl of Spencer eulogized his sister, Princess Diana. She delivered a sustained assault on the petty politics of division and derision, which Senator McCain detested to his core but President Trump practices more and more. And she delivered it… Read more.
Après ça le deluge… Read more.
Michael Jackson is reportedly earning more in death than he did when he was alive. … On Wednesday – what would have been the King of Pop’s 60th birthday – it was revealed that gross earnings since his death are thought to exceed $900 million. … But just months before his death, Jackson had said… Read more.
History is littered with public figures who betrayed the public trust. But no betrayal has been more shocking and disillusioning than Aung San Suu Kyi’s complicity in genocide against the Rohingya. I have vented my own shock and disillusionment in such commentaries as “Aung San Suu Kyi Becoming Democratic Mascot of Myanmar’s Military Dictatorship,” March… Read more.
Remarkably, as I write this, I am watching the breaking news that Neil Simon, the award-winning playwright of such hits as The Odd Couple, just died. He was 91. But his death makes the following clarification all the more relevant: A surprising number of readers have inquired why I did not publish commentaries on one… Read more.
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No Drake, no Bey and Jay, no Tay, no Adele, no Rihanna. No Kendrick or Childish Gambino or Lorde or Cher… We were just left with existential pop culture questions. … Taylor Swift made her annual refusal to even set foot in the same area code as MTV’s quagmire, a tactically brilliant move that’s turned… Read more.
