The two largest cities in the United States are Los Angeles and New York City. Both are dominated by Democrats and, last week, both provided excellent case studies in negligence and corruption. In the City of Angels, dereliction of duty…
In a couple of columns that have already run this week, plus the segments of The Spectacle podcast you should have already watched (and if you haven’t, then…seriously?), our regular followers will notice a distinctly optimistic strain in things in…
Blossom Dearie’s song, I’ll Take Manhattan, (Great rendition here by Ella Fitzgerald, needs to be brought up to date. With apologies to the late, great Blossom, today’s Manhattan is far from “an isle of joy,” especially if one has to ride the…
Such a smart plan, it was. Get a blue state Soros D.A. like the undistinguished Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg to indict 45th and 47th President Donald Trump on something or other. On what? Who cares what? Indict on charges of…
Once again the estimable Joseph Epstein hits it out of the park on how addictive and dispiriting watching and reading the news has become these days. I feel his pain. It’s sort of like road kill, isn’t it? You know you…
To “Get Trump,” Judge Juan Merchan turned his courtroom into a crime scene. Merchan unleashed irregularities, torpedoed judicial norms, perpetrated injustices, violated state laws, shredded civil rights, and wiped his shoes on the U.S. Constitution. In cahoots with his co-persecutor,…
The conviction of former President Trump in the so-called hush-money trial has inevitably led to a lot of speculation concerning whether he will be sentenced to prison. A number of legal experts have suggested that it is unlikely. Normally this…
WASHINGTON — Jurors are tougher than voters. They expect defendants — or their lawyers — to tell the truth. Hence the 34 guilty verdicts on charges that former President Donald Trump falsified business records to influence the 2016 election. Don’t…
I was in second grade when an assassin’s bullet tore apart the brain of the President of the United States. It was a different time. All but a tiny minority of us readily accepted the official story. It occurred to…
