Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich revived speculation today that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden will trade places for the 2012 election. I can’t help seeing this as more an official floating of the idea than a thinking aloud piece from Mr. Reich, who enjoys a long friendship and professional relationship […]
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‘War Horse’ Gets 3 1/2 Blackberries (Out of Five)
Are film reviewers part of an inside Hollywood job, like stock analysts were at the big Wall Street banks before being exposed? Or do they just feel obligated to write nice things about venerable directors? Those are questions I find myself asking after leaving Steven Spielberg’s latest, “War Horse,” which opened to preposterously good reviews. […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Newt Bubble — and Temper — Go ‘Pop’
So much for staying above the fray. The constitutionally acerbic Newt Gingrich, who promised to remain positive in the Republican presidential primaries, but who is now falling in the polls like an April barometer, is unleashing his pent up frustrations this week with fury. Mr. Gingrich and his campaign are accusing Mitt Romney of being […]
Read the rest of this entry »New Yorker of the Week, Charles Hermansen
Is it ever worth it to spite yourself to make a point? Charles Hermansen thinks it is. The Staten Island restaurateur permanently shuttered his eatery’s doors this week to protest what he believed to be constant harassment from the New York City Health Department, according to today’s New York Post. Mr. Hermansen is now without an income-producing business, but he doesn’t have to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Best Buy Talks Smack; Santa Fires Back
Any honest sports fan will look you in the eye and tell you with absolute certainty that there is, in fact, such a thing as a jinx. As sure as there is a God, there is a way to negatively affect the outcome of a sporting match. The culprit usually is arrogance. There are some things one simply doesn’t […]
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http://youtu.be/LywD6gXBudc If you run to be President of the United States, you have to be scrutinized, down to the very last word. It’s now Ron Paul’s turn to be vetted in the news media, and lingering words from old newsletters published under his name are fair game. The language in the newsletters is racist, and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Come Into the Light…
Progress in Congress. The incandescent light bulb has been saved for at least a year. Thanks to the efforts of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Department of Energy funding to hunt down and kill anyone manufcaturing, using — or even looking at — an old light bulb has been eliminated. Chalk one up for the American people. I […]
Read the rest of this entry »Thinking Ahead on Ron Paul
Thinking aloud. If Leon Panetta meant what he said in his interview with CBS’s Scott Paley on Tuesday — I can’t believe Panetta’s remarks weren’t the lead story in every newspaper in America Wednesday — the United States and Israel will be at war with Iran and its transnational surrogate Hezbollah by the autumn of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, George Will
“Gingrich’s unsurprising descent into sinister radicalism — intimidation of courts — is redundant evidence that he is not merely the least conservative candidate, he is thoroughly anti-conservative. He disdains the central conservative virtue, prudence, and exemplifies progressivism’s defining attribute — impatience with impediments to the political branches’ wielding of untrammeled power. He exalts the will […]
Read the rest of this entry »Welcome Back, Mitt Romney
Things are looking up for Mitt Romney. Besides new polling numbers which have him, once again, leading the field in Iowa, his primary opponents’ slips are showing. Newt Gingrich has inexplicably introduced the idea of police officers dragging judges off the bench to congressional inquisitions. And today he told a gay American that he should […]
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