For an opposition party looking for respect from a new president, the best advice is the same advice that might be given to a freshly-arrived prison inmate: Find someone – anyone – and throw a punch. Right away.
And so it’s become something of a tradition for one Cabinet nominee in every incoming administration to Read More
INSIDE AN ESSAYIST’S BRAINPAN- That was some column I wrote about
Bill Clinton and Pardongate the other day. Sure, my gimmick of “reading”
someone’s innermost thoughts (usually Bill or Hill) is getting slightly stale.
But I can make the guy “think” anything about himself-and when I publish his
bogus mental musings, they take on a Read More
Many people know Denise Rich as the glamorous Democratic fund-raiser at the center of a furious investigation into former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of her ex-husband, financier Marc Rich. Less is known about Ms. Rich’s unscandalous but prosperous career as a lyricist and co-writer of numerous, amorously themed pop songs, from Celine Dion’s hit “Love Read More
Who among us has not used connections to receive an
advantage, to win a job, admission to a school, a special favor? Will the pure
soul who wouldn’t think of it please stand up, so we can have the TV cameras
ready when heaven opens its gates to receive you? Who wouldn’t call the friend Read More
It was surely the most trying moment in Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg’s tenure as chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Several days after the pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich made international news, the museum’s spokesman received a call from a reporter asking about a letter written on museum stationery in support of Mr. Read More
Some day soon, public interest in the Clinton
administration’s final disgrace will fade, and the former President-if not his
wife, our junior Senator-will retreat from the headlines. Then, after an
appropriate interval, we will start seeing phony photo ops and pious public
pronouncements. Here and there, the Clintons will begin their latest
rehabilitation: Here is Read More
The toxic atmosphere thrown up by a media frenzy tends to obscure the facts and choke off dissent. In the current uproar over the pardon of Marc Rich, the opinions of very prominent individuals-people who are regularly quoted in other circumstances because of their unquestioned rectitude and authority-are being ignored. Understandably, very few of those Read More
Some day soon, public interest in the Clinton
administration’s final disgrace will fade, and the former President-if not his
wife, our junior Senator-will retreat from the headlines. Then, after an
appropriate interval, we will start seeing phony photo ops and pious public
pronouncements. Here and there, the Clintons will begin their latest
rehabilitation: Here is Read More
To the best of my memory, I only met Marc Rich once. It was
quite a while ago, in the Swiss Alps, whence he’d fled after Spain-his original
on-the-lam lighting point-suddenly became too hot (the Feds had started to
close in on him with a serious extradition deal, and there were rumors that a
contract Read More
The latest Clinton scandal spasm was much like all the
others that had preceded it: a sudden deluge of facts, rumors, assumptions and
contradictions, mostly devoid of context, framed by weak, slow or nonexistent
explanations from the targets themselves. As usual, the outrage that greeted
the alleged misbehavior of the departing First Family and their Read More
