September 27, 2007 – 10:53 am
Just returned from a Hudson Institute briefing at The Four Seasons restaurant this morning given by John McCain. He seems a little tired, and who can blame him? The man is 71, has survived torture at the hands of the Viet Cong and, worse still, the ineptitude and foolishness of many of his fellow …
September 24, 2007 – 11:00 pm
It’s never wise to debate a nut job, especially a vicious one. The very act of debate implies there is something to be discussed, some shred of basis to the attacker’s position which, if in fact there is none, gives that unreasonable and possibly evil party more standing than he or she deserves. Thus in …
September 24, 2007 – 1:19 am
You gotta love New Yorkers. Tonight on the corner of 46th and Second Avenue, I saw a bunch of roadbloacks and cops. Knowing I was near the UN, I asked one young cop, “So officer, what’s going on tonight? You guys getting ready for that jerk to come to the UN tomorrow?”
For a moment I …
September 23, 2007 – 4:51 pm
Go Steelers! The Steelers just beat the San Francisco 49ers by 37 to 16. They are now 3-0.
“They and the New England Patriots seem to be the class of the AFC, and the Steelers haven’t been accused of cheating,” according to James Taranto.
For a gal who grew up wearing black and gold in the 70’s …
September 23, 2007 – 3:16 pm
Go Steelers! So far the Steelers are 2 and 0. They haven’t played the best teams, but they “totally blew out” Cleveland and Buffalo, according to James Taranto. “I just hope they win by less than 9, because I have the 49ers in the pool,” he says.
Why Taranto did not bet on the Steelers, I …
September 23, 2007 – 1:41 pm
According to an interview on FOX News, Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, who is hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tomorrow, says he would have hosted Hitler, too. This man seems to be of the school of thought that the best defense against the world’s monsters is to listen, but in reality folks …
September 23, 2007 – 2:16 am
On Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak and participate in a question and answer session with students and faculty at Columbia University. Pundits, students, and New Yorkers of all stripes are in an uproar that Ahmadinejad is being given a platform. At first, I was of the mindset that his speaking would have little …
September 14, 2007 – 4:07 pm
You gotta love Rudy Giuliani’s healthy chutzpah. Irked that The New York Times not only published Moveon.org’s full-page ad smearing Gen. David Petraeus, but gave them a steep discount, Rudy’s campaign placed an ad in today’s Ny Times defending the General’s integrity. The kicker is, Rudy demanded the same steep discount — and got …
September 7, 2007 – 4:41 pm
Fred Thompson, formerly Watergate prosecutor, lobbyist, actor, and U.S. Senator from Tennessee, announced his candidacy for President of the United States Wednesday evening on Jay Leno’s show. This guy reminds me of my friends and me. He keeps jumping from career to career. No matter how much he achieves, he seems to feel the need …
September 5, 2007 – 11:28 am
Over a year and a half ago, Mithal al-Alusi, a courageous Iraqi politician about whom I have written for The Wall Street Journal, who has lost more than his life in the struggle to build a democratic Iraq, told me that Iran had infiltrated the Iraqi political process.
Last week in …