Mission Accomplished
In his article in the July issue of Vanity Fair, “The War They Wanted, the Lies They Needed,” Craig Unger, author of “House of Saud,” …
Nasty as She Wants to be
Ann Coulter is all over TV promoting her book about”godless liberals.” The other night she was on “Scarborough Country” bragging that her book has ended …
Give us Your Upwardly Mobile, your Hard-Working Masses
Mayor Bloomberg of New York shocked many by saying that not only shouldn’t we deport 11 million illegal immigrants but we need millions more of …
Crazy!
He always was crazy and it kept us from going insane. I’m talking, of course, about Waylon Jennings, who passed away on Valentine’s Eve. I …
Who’s Hysterical Now?
John McGinnis writes in a letter to the editor (February) that “the word ‘hysteria’ derives from the ancient Greek word for womb, and that the …
Radical Sheik
On a night late in 1969, Felicia Bernstein stood up beside the baby grand in her apartment overlooking Central Park and introduced some Black Panthers …
Freedom and Materialism
Often we hear people wondering what it is that holds Americans together. We are so diverse ethnically, religiously, politically, and philosophically; many worry that we …
Terror, War and Rock ‘n’ Roll
On the way to the Concert for New York City, my husband and I were waved through the checkpoint at the entrance to the Holland …