It turns out the assassination of the CEO of the largest health insurance company in America on the streets of Manhattan by a masked gunman using a silencer amounted to the least shocking aspect of this crime. Even revelations by…
Two weeks before the 1972 election, in which Democratic Senator George McGovern challenged Republican President Richard Nixon, the former appeared on ABC’s “Issues and Answers” where reporter Frank Reynolds asked, “You have likened President Nixon to Adolf Hitler. You have…
“‘Who Stole the People’s Money?’” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, Sept. 27, 2024.
Well, for you folks it might have been a tough week. And particularly for you folks in Florida who have had to get ready for Helene, that sky-monster due to pound the length and width of your state, you have…
I grew up in New York City, in Queens, in a neighborhood that few people outside of the borough have ever heard of: Middle Village. It’s relatively unknown because it’s always been relatively quiet and peaceful. It consists of tree-lined…
I was absolutely baseball crazy. It was 1958, I was six years old, and I was falling in love with baseball. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t play it very well. Even though I would eventually play Little League, I…
High taxes, high crime, and a brazenly corrupt legal system are all taking their toll on the Big Apple. Between July 2020 and July 2023, New York State led all 50 states in population loss in percentage terms at 2.65…
When, as in my case, your job involves reading a lot of news every day, it can be quite depressing. Lately, however, it seems to me that there have been, here and there, a few more positive tidings than usual….
Earlier this week, the Biden reelection campaign decided it was time to have its own press conference in front of the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump is being accused of unspecified crimes, so they sent actor and…
