I was teaching high-schoolers in a Jewish day school in the early ’90s when I first began to hear about Rush Limbaugh. I taught Biblical and rabbinic texts and other topics relevant to a Jewish religious education. I viewed politics…
Every so often, there’s a public figure who looms so large in your life that the news of his or her death wrings your heart out. You feel their absence deeply. It’s personal. That’s how many conservatives feel at the…
El Rushbo has become an angel! He fought lung cancer for over a year. During that time he fought the usual battles against femi-Nazis, environmental wackos, the usual crowd. And he fought for Donald Trump to the very end. Now…
Monday Yesterday, I awakened to the sad news that George Pratt Shultz, gigantic fixture in American public life, possibly the last surviving member of what used to be called “The Establishment,” before “The Establishment” was composed of billionaires with hearts…
Stage and screen actor Christopher Plummer died peacefully Friday at his home in Connecticut with his wife of 53 years, Elaine Taylor, by his side. He was 91. In an acting career of almost 70 years, the Toronto-born Plummer won…
Washington The knives were out for me in January 2017 when I arrived in Washington as the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You see, I worked for what scolds liked to call Sheldon Adelson’s paper — and…
The world can be a harsh place. People die every second of every minute of the day, many in unjust, unfair, and senseless ways. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and beyond has particularly stricken the elderly and those already immunocompromised….
Last Thursday, bitterly divided Americans came together to bid good riddance to that annus horribilis, 2020. Like the traitorous Thane of Cawdor in Macbeth — who faced his execution with unexpected dignity and grace — nothing about 2020 became it…
“I’ll be home for Christmas, you can plan on me.” So crooned Bing Crosby in December 1943. The song was a lament for countless boys fighting abroad in World War II, longing to be home for Christmas. By Christmas 1945,…
