On Fox News Sunday, panelist Brit Hume offered a hopeful New Year’s message for the fallen Tiger Woods: “Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person, I think, is a very open question… the
“The People Speak” College Tour concluded with a standing-room-only crowd in UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall last Friday afternoon. After the video presentation, host professor Ellen DuBois facilitated an audience question-and-answer session with her guests, actor Josh Brolin and producer Chris Moore,
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” An Arkansas fifth-grader made news recently by claiming there
In reply to a recent political and cultural controversy involving “Sesame Street,” Sesame Workshop Executive Vice President Miranda Barry wrote: Jim Henson, Jon Stone, Frank Oz and others set a witty and silly tone for Sesame Street that our current
Having received some criticism for my last post about “Sesame Street,” I would like to briefly respond to some of the questions and assertions in the comment section. What’s so bad about saying “we share common humanity despite ethnic/religious/linguistic differences?”
The Public Broadcasting System’s taxpayer-funded ‘Sesame Street’ has, at cursory glance, presented young American children with what colorfully appears to be one of television’s few safe havens of educational fun. Yet, embedded in its visually intoxicating muppetry and otherwise innocently
After more than thirty years Oscar winning director Roman Polanski, the infamous child rapist and decades-long fugitive from justice, has been captured. He should be extradited back to California as soon as possible for sentencing. Some of Polanski’s early apologists
Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama’s long-time Chicago crony and current White House special advisor, may have just struck out with her ill advice for the president’s IOC blunder in Copenhagen. As LA Examiner’s Kelli Kobor noted yesterday: It is unlikely that
Rocco Landesman Reiterating the NEA’s denial about the purpose of the notorious August 10, 2009 teleconference, Chairman Rocco Landesman doubled-down Tuesday: “Fact 3: ‘This call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda and any suggestions to that end
“It may be the Devil, or it may be the Lord. But, you’re gonna have to serve somebody.” – Bob Dylan [youtube f5M_wtqrIPo nolink] “Rule #7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” – Saul Alinsky, Rules
I recall vividly the profound sadness, anger and horror I felt the moment the first tower collapsed. I was glued to the television that fateful American morning when Matt interrupted Tom & Katie to report: “We just saw a live
Today, President Obama delivers his speech to American students after several days of controversy due to its companion U.S. Department of Education (ED) Lesson Plan. Count me among those who find a U.S. President delivering a speech to students–especially one
Thank God for America’s Armed Forces and Her courageous men and women in uniform who selflessly stand for us “between our beloved home and the desolation of war.” Such brave and heroic souls, with their families’ steadfast love of country
“There’s an actual statistic that 99% of all scientists agree that humans are exacerbating global climate change… I am totally open to varying viewpoints, but [‘human-caused global climate change’] is one that’s no longer a debate.” — Benjamin Kay, 5/7/09
The warrior cried, but not for himself. His tears flowed from the blessing of the little girl — the one with the angel-voice. And, as we stood in ovation in the American Legion Hall her lyric, “… I once was
