The Great Lawn at Central Park, Memorial Day.

The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission.

The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for Turkey’s new friend, Iran, to ship more...

The United States has a major problem in Turkey, which under increasingly authoritarian Islamist rule, has become a primary player in undermining U.S. policy in the Middle East, not to mention a growing antagonist of Israel.

I have posted on Turkey’s Islamist government before. The ploy recently to announce a farce agreement...

The Gail Collins, in an otherwise humorous column Alabama Goes Viral, plays a sleight of hand when quoting the now famous television advertisement by Dale Peterson, running for Alabama Agricultural Commissioner.

Here is Collins’ description (emphasis mine):

This is the start of Peterson’s campaign ad. He rides into the screen on a horse...

The NY Times’ headline writer got it wrong, The Hard Sell On Salt, which purported to show how the salt industry was manipulating public opinion and regulations on restricting salt:

With salt under attack for its ill effects on the nation’s health, the food giant Cargill kicked off a campaign last November...

Many moons ago, when I worked in Manhattan, I always enjoyed early Sunday mornings, because there were few people and even fewer cars.

I’m in NYC this weekend for a wedding, and walked over to Park Avenue.

In the photo, the Waldorf Astoria on the left, looking south towards the MetLife Building (which...

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

Hey, did you hear the one where Bill O’Reilly called a black professor a drug dealer? What a racist.

At least that is what Gawker wanted you to believe, in its post Bill O’Reilly Tells Black...

1. Why did it take until after the Pennsylvania Senate primary for details regarding the offer made to Joe Sestak, and the use of Bill Clinton as the conduit, to leak out?

2. Would it have made a difference in the primary? (Did I just answer the first questi...

Another “emergency” and pending “catastrophe” is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers’ union contracts:

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama “absolutely supports” a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher layoffs and cancellation of summer classes.

Duncan...

Like clockwork, I get in the car for the 6 hour drive from Ithaca to Rhode Island, and news hits the fan.

This time, the revelation that the White House enlisted Bill Clinton to do the dirty work of getting Joe Sestak to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary in exchange...

It’s the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. No one really is expecting you to work.

So watch this video of the student speaker at Cornell Law School’s graduation earlier this month, it’s worth a few minutes out of your busy, important day. And you will be glad you did.

You need to watch...

The U.N. is taking the first steps in a process which inevitably will lead to various U.N. agencies and international N.G.O.s claiming that the drone strikes ordered by the U.S. government constitute war crimes, as reported by The New York Times:

A senior...

Another rich person is building a house bigger than mine, right on the beach in my hometown, unlike my humble abode a few blocks in.

The Atlantic Magazine thought it would be able to speak poetic historical justice, by splashing the headline that the original reviled one, Kenneth Starr of Monica and Bill and Blue Dress and Impeachment fame, had been arrested for running a Ponzi Scheme.

Oh, the deep, deep satisfaction. They could feel...

This was completely unexpected:

Friends tell The Daily Beast that the departing senator, injured by Obama’s failure to show last-minute support, may well shift right on key votes from Kagan<...