by | Feb 25, 2025

“Make no mistake: empathy is not weak or woke,” Jane Fonda explained upon accepting a Lifetime Achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild this weekend. “And, by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.” The…

by | Jul 21, 2023

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vows to impose millions of dollars in fees and fines on a school district that refuses to teach kids a mythologized version of a politician who sometimes pursued sexual relationships with kids. “After we deliver the…

by | Feb 28, 2023

Regrets? Jane Fonda’s had a few. But, then again, too few to mention — for the most part. She recently confessed to Chris Wallace that she harbors not many of them at 85. The obvious retorts include Monster-in-Law, allowing North…

by | Aug 2, 2021

CNN’s Brian Stelter over the weekend nudged Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) into comparing the murderer of over 900 people in Guyana with the 45th president of the United States. Huh? “You look at Donald Trump, charismatic leader, who was able…

by | Sep 11, 2020

“I don’t know what happened to Jon,” Jane Fonda told Howard Stern about Jon Voight in a Wednesday interview. “We were pretty close. He was my best friend among Hollywood people. We won Academy Awards together for Coming Home.” But…

by | Jul 5, 2019

The San Francisco School Board last week authorized $600,000 in spending to destroy a mural depicting George Washington at a high school named for him. “It’s rude and disrespectful to people’s cultures,” a junior at the school told the San…

by | Apr 5, 2019

The National Women’s Hall of Fame inducts not one but two of Jim Jones’s most fervent celebrity supporters this year. During research for Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco, Jane Fonda and Angela…

by | Nov 21, 2018

Washington Forty years ago this past Sunday more than 900 men, women, and children either killed themselves or were murdered in Jonestown, Guyana. Geography buffs will note that Jonestown is just east of Venezuela, where yet another crazed left-wing experiment…

by | Nov 16, 2018

Forty years ago Sunday, Jim Jones orchestrated the deaths of 918 people in Guyana. He blamed one man, also in Guyana at the time, for Peoples Temple’s demise and hoped aloud that his followers would murder him. “Can they not…

by | Nov 13, 2018

Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
By Daniel J. Flynn
(ISI Books, 258 pages, $27.95)

Dan Flynn’s Cult City is not a happy read, but an instructive one.

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