I’m paying the price for being prolific with a major case of writer’s cramp – which, in the computer age, takes on a whole new and (quite painful) meaning. The other night I felt a twinge in my right forearm, and, by morning, it had turned into a...
Is Team Bush about to implode? It sure doesn't look that way from the outside. But beneath the calm unruffled exterior of an administration that never admits either error or doubt, there are some palpitating hearts that beat a little faster each time U.S. special...
There's no new column this Friday because of a wonderful event in San Francisco: the opening (or, rather, re-opening) of the movie version of We, The Living, Ayn Rand's first novel. This is quite simply the greatest movie ever made. Period. Somehow, some way, the...
No sooner had Arnold Schwarzenegger been elected Governor of California, than he immediately started agitating on behalf of a constitutional amendment allowing a foreign-born citizen to hold the highest office in the land. Not that he's ambitious, or anything…....
Is there a bigger, fatter, more egregious hypocrite on God's green earth than David Horowitz? What else can we call someone who mounts a campaign for censoring campus speech – in the name of "academic freedom"? According to Horowitz's own website, Colorado...
Amid all the current recriminations, investigations, and political circumlocutions surrounding those missing "weapons of mass destruction," another sort of WMD – one far closer to home – still casts its sinister shadow over an uncertain future. The anthrax...
Of all the expressions of anti-Americanism reported since the beginning of the Iraq war, none drips with more contempt for the red-white-and-blue than the recent remarks of Ahmed Chalabi, the neocons' man in Iraq. In regard to the complete absence of any "weapons of...
"Utter nerve" – that's how the dictionary defines chutzpah, and that just about sums up, in a single, wonderfully descriptive Yiddish word, Richard Perle's recent suggestion that "heads should roll" in the U.S. intelligence community. We didn't find the "weapons...
You know something is up when even Bill O'Reilly, the Fox network's champion bloviator, is admitting that he was wrong about the "weapons of mass destruction" he and the rest of the War Party insisted were in Iraq. Of course, it was still a good idea to go to war, in...
In the run-up to war, as the British were going through the motions of getting a second resolution through the UN Security Council, there was much speculation as to how the 6 non-permanent members of that body would vote. So high was the interest in this question on...
