Esther Goldberg
POSITANO, Italy — I am in Positano, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, soaking up the sun and pondering the immensities. Pompeii is just down the road, or over the mountain, or somewhere nearby, and it seems to me that Pompeii…
WASHINGTON — Recently in Washington the Newseum was saved from what could have been a very embarrassing event. Or maybe the people who run the Newseum would not have been embarrassed but the institution was saved anyway. The Newseum is…
WASHINGTON —Where are we now in this morass of Obama Administration scandals? We have the Associated Press imbroglio. We have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the IRS imbroglio. Well, a synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above…
WASHINGTON — How odd! There I was Saturday evening in the Windy City at a fundraising event for the Chicago Rowing Foundation, and who do I encounter but the mayor of Chicago, His Honor Rahm Emanuel? You might recall that…
ALL OVER AMERICA, men of a certain age have been playing a YouTube clip from this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. It is the two minutes in the middle of the speech by Sarah Palin, the moment when the Alert…
WASHINGTON — Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment about the left. They do not like conservatives very much. In fact, they come to an immediate boil when we enter their admittedly quite limited…
WASHINGTON — It has happened again! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication of George W. Bush’s presidential library he invoked history with his usual mastery of detail. He placed President John F….
Progressives of large intellect, such as Woodrow Wilson, and of more modest equipage, like Barack Obama, endeavor to Gigantic Projects. Even when the world does not much care for Gigantic Projects, the progressive conjurers nonetheless proceed with them, and inevitably…
WASHINGTON — It has come to my attention that there is a new derogatory term in American politics. It is “Angry White Male.” Moreover, I am apparently a member of this low-down grouping of Americanos. According to Wikipedia, “the free…
