While the nation’s pundits are praising the President for his State of the Union speech, conservatives are falling all over themselves lauding Bush for explaining why the weakest state sponsor of terrorism — Iraq — ought to be attacked. Pundits,...
Scott Holleran
Scott Holleran interviewed 2025 Carnegie Hero medal recipient Henry Reese, whom Salman Rushdie credits with saving his life from a radical Islamic assassin. Mr. Holleran wrote the Western Pennsylvania Press Club’s Best Sports Journalism award-winning “Roberto Clemente in Retrospect” in 2021 and his short story “Boom-Boom Goes to Jail” won a 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award prize. Scott Holleran’s first book, Long Run: Short Stories: Volume One, a collection of 16 previously published short stories, features a foreword by Ayn Rand and literary scholar Shoshana Milgram, Ph.D. Scott Holleran lives in the San Fernando Valley, where he’s writing his first novel, Speakeasy, choreographing dance and coaching weight loss. Watch him dance in his movie debut—the first film inspired by his fiction writing—in Henry Dances. Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com
Gray Davis’s Government By Smog Check
The race for governor of California has played like a choice between the lesser of two evils. But there are several reasons why Bill Simon, Jr. — whatever his flaws — will do less harm to California. Ruled by the liberal dogma of his most ardent...
Liberal Jews are finding common ground with the right
Speaking in Los Angeles recently, on the eve of his Likud Party victory in opposing a Palestinian state, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his now-familiar approach to the Middle East: moral clarity. Coming as Newsweek reports that the GOP is...
An America President in Communist Cuba
Two major stories emerged last week regarding Cuba; one story you probably know — Jimmy Carter was in Cuba — and the other you probably do not. The contrast represents the complete inversion of what really matters. An American president in Cuba, current or...
Why Was Elian Gonzalez Less Worthy Than Giselle Cordova?
Fidel Castro’s recent collapse was caught on television, where the 74-year-old dictator’s security guards could be heard exclaiming: “Aguantalo, rapido!” The phrase, which means “Hold him up, quickly!” captures the essence of the...
An Elegy for Elian Gonzalez
It finally happened: Elian Gonzalez has been reunited with his father. The President, the Attorney General, Congress, the media and a majority of the American people got the reunion they wanted at 5 a.m. last Saturday morning–at the point of a gun. For all the...
Elian Gonzalez’s Life is His Own; Make Him a U.S. Citizen
Elian Gonzalez’s story continues to unfold like an opera: The daring escape from Cuba, the treacherous sea storm, and his mother’s heroic struggle to fasten the 6-year-old to an inner tube before she drowned. As a brutal snowstorm brought the congressional...
The History of HMOs
The new year begins as employees begin a process called open enrollment–when many employees designate a health plan through their employer. Unfortunately, most are forced to enroll in a managed care plan, i.e., an HMO or PPO. That’s right: force actually...
Why the New York Times is Wrong on MSAs and Health Reform
The following is a letter sent by writer Scott Holleran of Glendale, California to the New York Times. Your Oct. 7, 1999 editorial, “The Fight for Patients’ Rights,” is insulting to the reader’s intelligence. By claiming that House...
The Clinton Administration’s new effort to put doctors in jail
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh have been asked by Clinton to travel the country, in cooperation with the American Association of Retired Persons — at government expense which may or...
Waiting for Fidel
BOOK REVIEW: WAITING FOR FIDEL By Christopher Hunt (Houghton Mifflin, $13) The Pope’s visit to Cuba and Fidel Castro’s subsequent release of political prisoners this week are a reminder that the Communist dictator still has a grip on Cuba’s fate....
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