Last week, we were stopped at a checkpoint while driving to the provincial capital for a doctor’s appointment. Nothing new about that: We had a lot of checkpoints awhile back, when there was a move to find the last few NPA members who hadn’t come in from the cold and become normal “militant” activists. But [...]

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Back in the 1970′s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, [...]

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Tim Miller has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent the Caylee Anthony defense from obtaining any of Texas Equusearch’s records. That battle is still raging. It seems likely that nothing will be resolved anytime soon. I have my own theories about Jose Baez, Andrea (I have never lost a capital case) Lyons, and the [...]

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It’s hard to decide how to start a review about this wonderful book. It is part memoir, chronicling the author’s journey through one of the worst nightmares a woman can face and part how-to: How to face the breast cancer from the first diagnosis, through finding the right doctor and the right treatment, to how [...]

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The new documentary from veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman pirouettes into theaters January 29th. “La Danse – Le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris” follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet from rehearsal to planning to funding. Click below to hear my interview with Wiseman. LISTEN

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Thinking Outside The Box For Preteens Our modern world is a wondrous place for a child to grow up in, there is so much to see, do, and learn. Alas it is also a world of the unexpected, a world where not everything is positive and fulfilling. If you go into the Self Help section [...]

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Last week I noticed there was a pen collector’s convention that was held in Philadelphia. In the era of Blackberries, personal digital communicators, smart phones and Kindles competing with I Pads for market share and attention…the humble pen is often viewed as an antiquated technology in a world of glitzy gadgets. Whenever I think about [...]

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This is a guest post by author Jay Rankin. His debut book Under The Neon Sky takes us behind the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. You can read my review here – Simon I wrote a book titled, Under the Neon Sky, about my job at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I was [...]

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It is Jonah Goldberg’s book that has got them steamed — and steamed is the word. Most of the “critique” is little more than abuse, liberally leavened with unsupported assertions. What has got them steamed is that a recognition of the philosophical affinities between historical Fascism and modern “liberalism” has become rather widespread among conservative [...]

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One of the major reasons that American jobs are in shorter supply is that more and more Americans are buying from our discount stores — large chains such as Target, Kmart, Cosgo, Walmart and the smaller 99¢ ones. These in turn are buying their products from the cheapest possible sources — which turn out to [...]

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I can’t begin to tell everyone how much it is hurting me right now to write this article but I feel this child deserves his name out here so that we all won’t forget him. If what I am reading tonight is true my heart is breaking. I went to bed early tonight and as [...]

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