July 15, 2024

No room at the inn?

Recently a friend arrived in New York with reservations at a “boutique” midtown hotel in Manhattan. Reservations were hard to obtain for a five-day visit as tourist season has recovered from pandemic-driven downturns. Early next morning h...

May 5, 2024

The lost narrative of Israel's history

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell The lamentable success and proliferation of the pro-Hamas rallies, excluding the Muslim participants ...

October 27, 2023

Who are the parents of Hamas-supporting students?

After the anti-Vietnam War turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Midge Decter wrote an outstanding book called Liberal Parents, Radical Children detailing a generation gap between young militants demanding an end to the Vietnam War  wi...

February 3, 2021

Three cheers for Jared Kushner and Michael Pompeo

President Biden's ventriloquist, Barack Obama, will make every effort to scuttle or damage the historic Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab nations.  Those efforts will fail thanks to the sage counsel and logistical cooperation of P...

November 9, 2020

The keystone corruption state

It appears that Pennsylvania is the state that ostensibly conferred enough votes to elect Joe Biden. Now that count is being challenged amid an investigation of fraud. The grandees at the networks declared rather stridently that there is n...

October 19, 2020

Ben Sasse's rant

In the Senate election of November 2014, Ben Sasse, a conservative Republican endorsed by the Tea Party, won the race propelled by the same popular sentiments that brought Donald Trump to the White House two years later.  Nebraska is a Republica...

July 14, 2020

Cancel culture coming for Broadway's most famous hits?

Broadway has been depressingly dark for months, so Disney produced Hamilton on TV for a large and grateful audience.  However, the P.C. monitors, who never rest, criticized the play for portraying principals who were slave-owners....

December 10, 2019

Rodger Young, soldier

In public school in the Bronx, after World War II, we gathered in the schoolyard, recited the "Pledge of Allegiance," and made way to the auditorium before classes.  There we sang the National Anthem and other patriotic songs...

December 7, 2019

Nancy and Ted — hypocrisy writ large

Teddy Kennedy of Chappaquiddick infamy made quite a name for himself even after that scandal. In 1985, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) were at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., where they...

December 3, 2019

Tenured cowards

I always try to avoid Holocaust metaphors when discussing campus anti-Semitism.  But the craven indifference of academic elites to the anti-Semitism that threatens Jewish students on their respective campuses is reminiscent of the purges of...

September 8, 2019

The Stepford students

In 1972 Ira Levin wrote The Stepford Wives, a satirical novel about young wives in a fictional Connecticut suburb who are so submissive that they resemble robots and zombies. Even independent women who move to the town turn into mindless adherents of...

June 30, 2019

Katie Hopkins explores Europe's loss of its Homelands

A new 42-minute documentary titled Homelands by British pundit Katie Hopkins (embedded below) is a cautionary tale for Americans. In England, Belgium, Italy, France, sovereignty and national culture are threatened by immigrants who openly reject the ...

May 6, 2019

An Academic Umbrella for Bigots

There is a lot of justifiable hand wringing over the Israel bashing and overt anti-Semitism in American academia. The bias is correctly blamed on the leftist “progressives” who buy into the libels promoted by Moslem/Arab students and thei...

January 9, 2019

Waiting on Stage Left Again

While Warren, Harris, Booker, and Biden are bruited as potential Democratic candidates in 2020, there may be a surprise candidate being groomed right now.   Barack Obama's trajectory from the Illinois state Senate to the Oval Offic...

November 11, 2016

A note to the boo-hoo crowd

A friend whom I love told me yesterday that his teenage daughter cried herself to sleep when Trump won and that in school (a private and tony school…natch), “counselors” comforted the students in their grief.  This was re...

November 2, 2016

Reversal of fortune for the Democrats

Only a few weeks ago, the #NeverTrump folks were moaning that any other Republican could have beaten Hillary Clinton, and now the Clinton supporters must be wondering if another Democrat could have beaten Donald Trump. I was an early antagonist, b...

September 13, 2016

'Deplorable' is when liars withhold critical information

Hillary and Bill Clinton have a remarkable history of friends who are willing to lie, obstruct, and withhold information that would expose them.  Webb Hubbell, Hillary Clinton's former law partner and former associate attorney general in the...

August 5, 2016

Shattering the Crass Ceiling

Hillary Clinton appeals to women on the myth that she will shatter a "glass ceiling" that impedes women from high office.  But that glass ceiling has already been shattered by women more talented and more courageous, who have fought po...

November 6, 2015

Eco-green Sharia

Who would have thought that a group that has created so many terrorist “hot spots” would be so concerned with environmentalism? Check out: Muslim Environment Watch and their goals: “Environment, climate change...