I have seen Aida many times over the years but none with a set so imaginative and none with “acting singers” who so moved me to tears. The opera fan sits there and just knows that the curtain will rise to…
“Politicians,” says Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Cal), “have bowed to the courts and stood before the people — not to silence opposition but to answer it.” He should have put it the other way around. Incumbents ought to be bowing to…
The general consensus among informed political analysts is that the Republicans emerged from last November’s election in control of the White House and Congress due to the border crisis and persistent inflation. The Trump administration curtailed the influx of illegal…
WASHINGTON — Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media on Wednesday when he announced on X “a change coming to our opinion pages.” “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense…
Romanian Joe Bidens Pounce Romanian authorities arrested Călin Georgescu, the popular populist who prompted self-styled pro-democracy forces to call off democracy when he looked en route to win the nation’s presidency, on Wednesday in traffic. Reuters reports that “after questioning Georgescu…
White House press briefings are often tedious affairs, but sometimes a reporter will ask a question so inane that it provides comic relief. On Jan. 29, for example, the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc put this howler to Press Secretary Karoline…
The Washington Post is facing a scale of collapse perhaps never before seen in American journalism. In 2021, the newspaper had reached 22.5 million digital users. By mid-2024, however, that had fallen to just 3 million. Twenty million daily viewers were…
Ya can’t make it up. Here’s a new headline focusing on the media. The source, in this case, is from Mediaite: “Jen Rubin Brutally Shreds The Washington Post While Announcing Her Exit: Bezos ‘Bent the Knee’ to Trump.” The story…
My memoirs were published on September 23, 2023, after I had spent several very pleasant years reliving the events covered in them. The Wall Street Journal lost no time in reviewing them, and hesto presto, I was off to a…
