Mark Goldblatt
In the wake of his idiotic remarks at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration, Trent Lott’s stop and grovel tour continues. Last Monday found him on Black Entertainment Television, calling the controversy “a wake up call,” proposing to start a “task…
I am lying on my back. Sweat is trickling from my temples through the curls of hair above my ears, around to the back of my neck and then dripping onto the vinyl mat. My left leg is bent at…
Eminem’s film debut, 8 Mile, has already passed the $100 million mark in box office receipts. That fact, coupled with the near-universal critical acclaim that’s accompanied the movie, would seem like good news. In fact, it’s a double whammy, Eminem’s…
You hate to take a “What, me worry?” attitude towards any aspect of the war on terrorism, but it’s hard to get too worked up over the results of a study, released recently by the Transportation Security Administration, which found…
The conviction in Pakistan of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the mastermind in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, is likely to trigger waves of violent protests from Islamists throughout the nation. “We’ll see who will die first,…
Suppose that a band of self-proclaimed white supremacists, clad in paramilitary uniforms, were holding weekend rallies in, oh, let’s say Times Square, in the heart of New York City, berating passersby through loudspeakers and bull-horns, calling for racial warfare, the…
As Earl recalled the scene, her eyes were glowing. It was the summer of 1928, the Ozark Mountains. Her father steered their Willis Knight towards a roadside watermelon stand, the midpoint of the 300-mile drive to visit relatives in Pine…
“We did win the last election,” shouted Democratic Political Strategist Bob Shrum on yesterday’s edition of “This Week with Sam and Cokie.” Shrum was referring, of course, to the 2000 presidential election in which George Bush eked out a narrow…
Recently, the media’s repetition of the phrase “cycle of violence” to characterize daily bloodlettings in the Middle East has been challenged on opinion pages both in America and abroad. Such criticism is a positive sign, an indication that the language…
It’s been a banner winter for cop killers Thomas Trantino and Mumia Abu-Jamal. This, in itself, is slightly distressing. You don’t like to think about vermin having banner seasons. Bad seasons, yes. Indifferent seasons, mostly. But banner seasons? Vermin have…
