Leave Fred Malek Alone
There may be a more ridiculous story than that Fred Malek back in the much missed Nixon days was a kind of “Jew counter” in some kind of anti-Semitic way, but it would be hard to imagine what it would...
View ArticleAt Leo’s
Every city likes to boast it has the best pizza in America. I used to think my hometown Fisher’s pizza was pretty good. The restaurant specialized in St. Louis-style pizza with a super-thin yeast-less...
View ArticleMy Pal, Warren Buffett
Sometimes the media is so funny I have to laugh out loud. Now, right now, the media drubbing of my pal, Warren Buffett, is just such a time. Mr. Buffett, the second or third richest man in the nation,...
View ArticlePainting A Picture
Like other tabloids of its kind, the Independent Weekly out of Raleigh, NC mixes concert reviews, movie listings, and “escort service” ads with self-consciously progressive opinion columns. Its...
View ArticleIn Praise of M. Stanton Evans
The following remarks were delivered at a celebration of Mr. Evans’ distinguished career held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on July 12: I have known Stan Evans for a long time,...
View ArticleDriving Across America
To drive across America is to rediscover its beauty and greatness. Anxious to see what I’ve never seen before and to avoid nightmarish air travel, I recently drove 4,500 miles round trip from...
View ArticleI Want My Rudy Beads!
In the sublime Paul Auster-scripted 1995 art film Blue in the Face, rock legend Lou Reed sighs, “I’ve been thinking about leaving New York for 35 years now. I’m almost ready.” Rudy Giuliani can...
View ArticleMidnight Train to Georgetown
It was the Rand Paul incident that finally did it. The senator from Kentucky was going through airport security en route to D.C. in January when a metal detector went off. Paul said there was a mistake...
View ArticleOld Hollywood versus New Hollywood
The Academy Awards are next weekend, and undoubtedly a dwindling audience will watch, if declining movie profits are any indication. Old Hollywood, though liberal, once celebrated America’s virtues....
View ArticlePlain Speaking
I was speaking the other day to my friend Charles who’s a very intelligent man; in fact, a brilliant polyglot, who opined that the U.S. Constitution, like the Declaration of Independence, is written in...
View ArticleReagan’s 2012 Acceptance Speech
Ronald Reagan was famously known as The Great Communicator. Were he still among us, and were he, through a wave of a Harry Potter wand, standing in front of the 2012 Republican National Convention to...
View ArticleVin Is In for 2013
The Los Angeles Dodgers have gone through almost whiplash inducing change over the past six months, from bankruptcy, to being directed by MLB for a bit, through a new ownership group that seems to have...
View ArticleAmerica’s Three Greatest Presidents
Turns out the shortest month on the calendar is actually the most significant for American history. For our three greatest Presidents were all born in February. George Washington Born on February, 22,...
View ArticleAll in the Family
The main Passover meal, observed the first night of the holiday in Israel, and the first two nights elsewhere, is known as the Seder. This Hebrew word is invested with layers of meaning. It conveys the...
View ArticlePsyched Out
When the USA Network announced in 2006 it was launching a new TV series about a fake psychic detective agency, I thought it was a harbinger of the end of Western civilization. Still, I kept an open...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Wrote Liberty Valance
My friend Happy Jack Feder lived in Missoula, Montana, in the early 1980s in the same neighborhood as the writer Dorothy Johnson, who lived in a small house on Dearborn Avenue. Johnson was retired from...
View ArticleHow Are We Doing?
As the nation celebrates Independence Day, there’s no surprise that a new survey shows religious Americans are more patriotic than the non-religious. Two thirds of Evangelicals are “extremely” proud to...
View ArticleA Splendid Time Is Guaranteed for All
A little over three years ago, I was perturbed with Paul McCartney for dissing former President George W. Bush when he received the Gershwin Prize for Song during a reception at the White House. The...
View ArticleReady to Play Another Year
Rosh Hashana, celebrated this Thursday and Friday, is generally described as the “Jewish New Year.” Less known is the fact that Jews believe it to be the Universal New Year. The holiday prayers are...
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