I was terrified of the prospect of a third party candidate. A three-way, split vote might very well … if the third candidate were viable and interesting … insure the re-election of the worst President in American history, Barack Obama.
As many of my readers may have noted, I follow the Gods and Godesses of piano religiously. Here, from my Memoir, Chapter Two, a glimpse of Rachmaninoff through the hands and soul of Olga Kern. However, and I speak of
Well, I certainly learned that there aren’t many opera fans among the Big Hollywood readership. The political intent of an opera that romanticizes Chou en Lai of Red China confirms the surrender of all American Arts to Marxism. From Hollywood
“The incubation period of the opera (Nixon In China) was rife with serious second-thoughts, by no less than Adams (the composer) himself, who initially resisted the proposal made by Peter Sellars (the director), a progressively radical director whose idea the
Don Mclean’s American Pie. [youtube ZPjjZCO67WI nolink] As you listen to and watch this rather miraculous musical achievement by the entire town of Grand Rapids, Michigan, ask yourself, “Is America dead yet?” Well, this 2012 video assures History that this
Barack Obama’s reelection is of primary importance to the Hollywood Left , therefore things of major Leftist import are on a bit of a hold. Firey visionaries of The Progressive New World Order are scheduled for casting their Hollywood scripts
Bill Maher’s mainly Liberal audience and their joy in The Weiner Transmissions, read verbatim by Bill Maher and Jane Lynch, made its point: “Who are you, conservative Americans, to look down on a couple of people just trying to have
Please, before you even read this article, gaze at and ponder Mark’s classically Steynian “Weiner’s Twitter Tweak“. Laughter, for myself at any rate, does not become, as they say, “side-splitting” unless there’s some metaphorical and breathtakingly abrupt fall from heaven
The entire legacy of Donny Hathaway is so divinely painful! I know of no purer elixir of Blues than the Hathaway lyrics of It’s What I Do. They are Billie Holiday’s Don’t Explain translated into bliss itself. My pen pal,
Here’s a fascinating display of Chicago’s Hometown Dissent. This clip of Louis Farrakhan verbally spanking President Obama climaxes with a truth no one on earth could disagree with: Dissatisfaction in America has reached the boiling point! Obviously, according to the
Nothing like a Hollywood film to brush up my days as a Jesuit schoolboy. Clash of The Titans is a film that has been made twice. Once with Laurence Olivier as Zeus (1981) and the second (2010) with Liam Neeson
Lincoln and Obama: Are comparisons compelling? America’s self-image – as portrayed in the brilliantly tough script of James Jones’ novel, From Here To Eternity (see article From Here To Lt. Col. Allen West) – has been, I believe, criminally shattered
Nothing so reinforces the essential integrity of the American character than another viewing of the American Classic, “From Here To Eternity.” Seen through contemporary eyes, it looks like an extended examination of Lt. Col Allen West’s entire experience with the
Saw The Devil’s Advocate for the third time the other night. No one in film has so dissected and anatomized diabolical corpi with more dedication and precision than Al Pacino. Not even the combined forces of Martin Scorcese and the
According to myth, because of his refusal to obey the Sphinx, Oedipus The King became a symbol of death and disgrace for everyone and everything he touched. After killing his father (patricide), he witnessed his own mother/wife’s suicide and then
Irrefutable and adorable don’t often go hand in hand. Nor do we think of David and Goliath as embodied by the same man. Chris Christie’s most recent and, as far as I know, most publicized appearance, the brief but telling
The awe-inspiring convergences of eternally American symbols and imagery in the seemingly sudden appearance of Herman Cain at the CPAC meeting?! This is beyond God’s call for “Check!” to the American Progressives. Herman Cain is God’s call of “Check-Mate!” Pair
I greeted Ronald Reagan’s counter-revolutionary ascent to the White House while I was still a Liberal. An embarrassing confession, I know. However, Reagan himself had, at one time, been a Liberal himself. On June 5th, 2004, this editorial by Ronald
The Simones, as I call them. No, this is not a French rock duet. Simone Signoret and Simone Weil. If you’ve only read The Ordinary Miracle II, you know of my romantically obsessive love for Simone Signoret. You may not
With Dr. Evil: …and his Mini-Me’s: …plus their Russian Wolfhound: George Soros now rules over half of the Earth: Eurasia, North America and, with his foot in Brazil, a large hunk of South America. With a Sorosian Barack Obama running
How serendipitous when a latter day Boswell like myself finds his Jonson! No, not that kind of “Johnson” … but a Samuel Johnson whose first name is Paul. I’d never heard of him till today … Paul Johnson, I mean.
“The people of the orient don’t think the same way about human life as we do.” That’s what was fed me in the Fifties when Red China was barely in the rear view mirror of my father’s car. I hadn’t
Remember the shot heard ’round the world? Another shot was fired in the Middle East a year ago and the echoes to that shot are exploding like wildfire. That intensely patriotic shot forced an extraordinary and extraordinarily American Army officer
Please listen to this seven-year-old! Divine. Undeniably miraculous that a child, like a female, singing, Biblical David, should arrive with that much inborn courage, wisdom and sensitivity! “It felt great,” Rhema Marvanne, said about making her theatrical debut. “It felt
Into my eye line he walks, like Gary Cooper … or Sidney Poitier … onto the dusty main street of High Noon! And in America it is, indeed, approaching High Noon. Colonel Allen West. My awareness of him is a
