Long ago and far away, as I was getting ready to leave the Gerald Ford White House speechwriting staff with the ultimate goal of Hollywood, one of my best friends, a simply brilliant writer named John R. Coyne, Jr., asked…
April 6, 2024 Dear Kitty, How are you? I hope you are well. We discussed my sending Coco some notes about Tommy’s side of her ancestry. So, here are a few memories. Alex, of course, is Coco’s grandmother, and, I…
This is being written before the Iowa votes are in. But one thing is certain. The race for 1,215 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention is officially now on. Iowa has gotten its quadrennial tons of attention, with New…
I’m creating a new television series called The Woke Zone. Every episode will be based on a cultural true story that could never happen in a sensible country and, if it ever did, would be the subject of relentless mockery…
Somewhere the late President Gerald Ford is shaking his head. It was Gerald Ford, famously President Richard Nixon’s number two, who took over the presidency when Watergate forced Nixon’s resignation. Which in turn put Ford in charge of winding down…
In Part I, I covered the historical precedents (1789-1960) up to JFK’s tragically short presidency; Part II covered the years 1961-67, featuring the reaction to 1963’s assassination horror, which led to the 1967 ratification of the 25th Amendment. Part III carries the story…
The most frequently quoted one-liner about impeachment is Gerald Ford’s: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers [it] to be at a given moment in history.” Former President Ford was a honorable man who…
Meanwhile, while we are talking about leadership, let’s not forget AOC and her “Squad” and the “Green New Deal.” This is her plan to completely stop using fossil fuels and eating meat within the next 11 years. This, supposedly, is…
When students at Hillsdale College spotted an unidentified flying object hovering above campus in March 1966, the national media’s attention turned to the small Michigan school. Camera crews and reporters descended on the college and the town surrounding it, eager…
