“Oh, my God! The president’s been shot!” For those of us of a certain age, the moment we first heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot has enshrined itself among our most indelible memories. I was 13, and…
Sixty years ago today, the president of the United States was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald. No one experienced the tragedy like John F. Kennedy’s wife. The image of Jackie Kennedy almost instinctively, in a motherly way, scrambling to the…
Sixty years. Amazing. For those old enough to remember that horrific day in American history — and I am — the arrival of the 60-year marker since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has opened the flood of memories,…
What some fans disliked most about Tucker on Twitter’s first episode one suspects his Fox News overlords disliked most about Tucker Carlson Tonight. On the latter show, Carlson occasionally flirted with sunbathing on the grassy knoll while wearing a tinfoil…
Shinzo Abe, who served as Japan’s prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020, was assassinated on Friday by a gunman. Abe was giving a speech in support of a political candidate in the city of…
I recently got an email from Albert, a longtime reader of this fine publication, regarding the “unconditional release” of would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley, who spent decades confined to a mental institution for trying to kill the 40th President of…
With the possible exception of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, no Supreme Court nominee has suffered the kind of abuse heaped on Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation. Senate Democrats, aided and abetted by major media outlets, tried to destroy…
The date was April 4, 1968. It was, of course, a day with bittersweet meaning on this day when we remember the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. On that date, King lost his life to an assassin. That same…
It transpired shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It should have been a great night for Bobby Kennedy, one of celebration. He had just achieved a grand political victory, having won California…
