The Washington Times today prints a letter from James J. David, a retired general in Georgia, eloquently calling for sanctions against Israel in light of the unending violence in Gaza/Jerusalem: It seems that this seesaw retaliation will never end, not…
My favorite building in New York, the New York Public Library, where I received much of my literary, journalistic, and political education, is being renamed after a buyout baron: the Stephen A. Schwarzman building. For a paltry $100 million gift….
Values: –Eliot Spitzer grew up on Park Avenue, I gather, the son of a real estate guy. Maybe we’re in a recession, but he could drop $5000 on regular assignations, allegedly. –William Kristol’s column yesterday included the statement, “the bad…
I’m a 52-year-old man with sexual issues, and all I feel for Eliot Spitzer tonight is sympathy. I wonder how many other guys my age can identify with his lusts, and how many of the male journalists reporting on his…
Peter Voskamp, editor of the Block Island Times, tells me that someone on dailykos wrote, “Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.” Or as my wife says, “Since when does the bank…
I found David Wurmser’s speech last week frightening. He said that he was able to read “the code” on Ahmadinejad, which revealed that the Iranian president is a messianic Hitler who wants to destroy the west. Wurmser was Vice President’s…
A small point, but an important one. Aaron David Miller mounts the usual strenuous defense of Rob Malley, who either is or is not an adviser to Obama (sorry can’t keep this straight): Perhaps most offensive, several publications have run…
My father-in-law, a crusty Republican, said the smartest thing I’ve heard about the Obama movement, though it has taken me months to understand it. Nearly a year ago he and my mother-in-law went to hear Obama speak and came home…
Last night I had dinner with two lefty friends in the hills and can tell you that the rage toward Hillary as an opportunist who will say anything is now so widely felt throughout the Democratic base that it is…