Last Friday, a Fox New panel kicked around the matter of President Obama’s remarks at the G-20 meeting where he had characterized the U.S. attitude toward Europe as “arrogant,” dismissive,” and “derisive.” The United States, its President had said, was…
Marx’s famous line about history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, might have been right for its time. But these days, when showbiz trumps everything, history repeats itself in the form of reruns and sequels. Or maybe…
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that some homeowners in New London, Connecticut, will have to find other lodgings. The local authorities want to bulldoze their houses to make way for, among other things, a building belonging to the…
According to John Walters, the Supreme Court got it right on medical marijuana. His argument comes down, essentially, to saying that medical marijuana doesn’t work, and should be illegal, even if it does make some people “feel better,” a phrase…
He contacted me — by e-mail — after he’d received my daughter’s wedding invitation. “Damn right I’ll be there,” Al said. “You want me to pick up some crabs and a bushel of oysters when I come through Maryland?” That…
Taken together, the 9/11 hearings and the 2004 presidential campaign are an almost lethally demoralizing combination. William Faulkner famously said (or wrote) that the past is not really dead; it is not even past. Well, he was a smart man…