Even as it disappointed on the field, the Super Bowl supplied racial drama. The historical celebration, that a black coach was finally coaching a Super Bowl team—and not just one, but both coaches, both teams—was all over the airwaves. Even ads brought it up. Hooray.
Time to get on my hobbyhorse. I gather that on Read More
Sorry writers and readers, I’m still trying to get up to speed on comment problems.
Here are 2 guys who couldn’t be hear thru normal channels. The first was in response to the issue of censoring comments, something I just started doing.
Phil: I agree with KoboldBlew. I know it’s just another piece Read MoreOn the cover of this week’s edition of Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative, Hillary takes fire from another direction: The anti-war, anti-Israel right, to whom her support for her husband’s interventions in the Balkans seem particularly damning, as does her hard line on Iran. The cover story’s author, the libertarian Justin Raimondo, seems Read More
“Hey, man!” hollered a young Latino kid in a Yankees cap, recognizing Patrick J. Buchanan, the former Nixon and Reagan speechwriter and three-time Presidential candidate, from his TV show. He was on West 34th Street.
“Hi, how are you?” replied Mr. Buchanan. He shook his head and gave a wheezy chuckle: “We’re in a real Read More
On Monday, July 28, Ron Reagan started a week-long run as guest co-host on MSNBC’s Buchanan & Press , with the son of the former President sitting decidedly to the left of Pat Buchanan. But Mr. Reagan was doing more than just filling the seat of vacationing co-host Bill Press; he told The Observer that Read More
It would be far too facile to say of the Presidential contenders that any New Yorker who chose to watch them rather than the Yankees on Oct. 17 required immediate and perhaps massive treatment for an assortment of brain-related maladies. The fact is, of course, that baseball-even playoff baseball, and even an all–New York World Read More
PHILADELPHIA-Have you read enough of these datelines? Hang in there, friends: It won’t take long, and then you and I shall be finished with this business.
Allow, please, for two observations before your devoted correspondent packs his bags:
1) Ralph Nader is beginning to sound better to this dyspeptic observer, if only because he Read More
Hillary Clinton has a new opponent, but that does not change the case against her.
She is no more a New Yorker now than when she began her listening tour. The historian Sean Wilentz tried to address this defect by pointing out, in a New York Times Op-Ed piece, that New York has long been Read More
A great deal has been made about the new alliance between two perpetual presidential candidates, Lenora Fulani and Patrick J. Buchanan. Ms. Fulani, as many readers will recall, has been a poisonous, albeit deservedly obscure, presence in New York politics for years. Mr. Buchanan, of course, is known for his work on behalf of Richard Read More
Did you ever think that in this last quarter of the last
year of the last century of the second millennium, we’d be debating World War
I? Or that a three-line, four-column front-page headline in The New York Times would contain the
words “Versailles Pact”? Those two words haven’t been featured so prominently
in any Read More
