Bashar al-Assad What to make of President Trump’s decision last week to launch a missile strike against Syria? That question has garnered varied responses from both Republicans and Democrats. Some say he shouldn’t have done it; others say it was the right thing to do; and still others say he didn’t go far enough. […]
Robert Kennedy Jr. Perhaps the only positive thing President Donald Trump has done in his short time in office is to create a committee to investigate “vaccine safety and scientific integrity.” Yes, it’s an odd, contradictory act from a man who has denied the findings of almost all of the world’s scientists, and abundant […]
Bill O’Reilly Our new president has been promising for a long time to “make America great again.” Two things happened today that inspired me with suggestions on how he could begin. One concerned the downfall of a famous television commentator, and the other the unwieldy state of our health-care system. After decades of bloviating about […]
David Brooks David Brooks, ever the philosopher, had a piece the other day in the New York Times that paints a gloomy picture of a strong trend away from democracy in the Western part of the world. The moderately conservative Brooks, in the column carried Friday by the Palm Beach Post, briefly traced the […]
Star Parker Star Parker calls to mind the reformed smoker who has no tolerance for smokers. She was a wayward youth until she found Christianity, and now brooks no wantonness by disenfranchised members of society. She preaches a tough gospel of straightening up and flying right. John Calvin There may be some legitimacy […]
What a great week of music it was in different parts of the Palm Beaches. The 65-piece Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches presented an exhilarating concert in Lake Worth, featuring David Crohan, the long-time entertainer at L’Europe, one of Palm Beach’s best restaurants. That was at the beginning the week, which ended with an […]
A word in a Palm Beach Post editorial last week sent me to the dictionary. The word was staunching, its base being, of course, staunch. Staunching was used as a verb form (gerund): “It is a good step toward staunching the distrustful whispers that continue to dog those good law-enforcement officers …” “No no no!” […]
Mona Charen Pundits like Mona Charen are not writing on behalf of their readers or their country. Their dissertations are guided by partisan ideology, whether or not the positions they champion are beneficial to their audience. In this, they are no different than politicians. A good example is what right-wing, syndicated columnist Charen wrote the […]
An ancillary benefit from doing book signings is the opportunity to meet the most interesting people. I’ve been signing my novel Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died on weekends at the artisanal market in Manalapan. It’s a small, upscale community near the ocean, just south of South Palm Beach. The market is […]
President Trump It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 comedy film with a title that describes the United States today – except that it ain’t funny. We are being led by a man whose direction often turns on a dime, and nobody except his diehard followers knows where he’s heading next. […]