Imagine interviewing Noah without bringing up the flood. Baseball sports fans apparently expected that of NBC news reporter Jim Gray when he interviewed Pete Rose. Before the second game of the World Series, Gray interviewed Pete Rose, a member of the so-called...
A Los Angeles police officer, earlier this year, shot and killed a 54 year-old, black, homeless and, apparently, mentally ill woman. Two officers observed Margaret Mitchell pushing a shopping cart down the street, and stopped to question her as to the ownership of the...
"The Secrets of the SAT," a PBS "Frontline" special, aired a few weeks ago. For sixty minutes, with virtually no "experts" offering opposing views, the show attacked the Scholastic Aptitude Test, required by most colleges. Opponents of the SAT, or those who seek to...
"So many racists, so little time." Black Time magazine editor Jack E. White fired that shot at David Horowitz, the "conservative" head of an organization called The Center for the Study of Popular Culture. And get a load of White's headline: "A Real, Live Bigot."...
California Just Reported a 29 percent drop-off in cigarette sales. Good news, say supporters of Proposition 10, the voter-approved initiative that places a 50-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes. Actor-director Rob Reiner, who spearheaded the initiative, barely contained...
Warning: Over certain issues, otherwise intelligent people may, repeat, may suffer instantaneous, and often irreversible, brain-freeze. Take the minimum wage. The City Council in Santa Monica, Calif., a town also known as "Moscow on the Pacific," just voted...
Does a bad-mouthed cop, by definition, exercise bad judgment? Last December 1998, in Riverside, California, a 19-year-old black woman, Tyisha Miller, sat in an apparent coma with a gun on her lap, in a locked car with the motor running. Her companions called 911, and...
"You have to answer the question. It won't go away." -- Reverend Jesse Jackson The subject? George W. Bush. The "question (that) won't go away"? Bush's alleged cocaine use. Meet Reverend Jesse "Zero-Tolerance" Jackson, born-again Drug Czar. Jackson feels that Bush...
Fifty percent of whites find segregation OK, as do 40 percent of blacks. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) commissioned a poll that uncovered these "shocking" results. Predictably, the mainstream media led the parade. Of the top 50...
Self-defense works. Laws don't matter if authorities don't do their jobs. These are the two most profound lessons learned from the recent shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles, a shooting that resulted in five wounded. The alleged gunman,...
Ronald Reagan gets less respect than Rodney Dangerfield. On July 22, 1999, the Associated Press published a story: "Letters Shed Light on Reagan's Life." Lorraine Wagner, a Philadelphia woman, maintained a 50-year- long correspondence with Ronald Reagan. As a...
"Houston, you've got a problem." In the competition to award a new NFL franchise, the National Football Association pits Houston against Los Angeles. For its part, Houston pledges a $500 million "entrance fee," plus hundreds of millions of dollars more in public...
Crystallization. Nineteenth century French writer Stendhal used the word "crystallization" to describe how we ignore flaws, imperfections, ambiguities, and inconsistencies in people we love. If you take a tree twig, said Stendhal, shove it in a mound of salt and pull...
Women’s soccer enthusiasts screamed foul when, during the 1996 Olympics, NBC gave only scant attention to the victorious women’s soccer team.
Another bigot. More screaming headlines about a racially bigoted serial killer. Subtext? That America remains an intractable, racist hellhole. What nonsense. White supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith shot himself during a high- speed chase. Authorities suspect him of...
Last week, I attended a memorial service for a 19-year-old girl shot in what appears to be a random, gang-related attack. The world may watch and fret over Columbine, but what I just described happens far, far more often. As the Democrats and the Republicans debate...
It's become a mantra. America is "desensitized." Violent movies, music and videos make Americans impervious to the pain and grief of others. Please. Can we hit the pause button on this "America the desensitized" stuff? In ordering a government investigation on how...
Call him the "Teflon director." For nothing Spike Lee says, no matter how outrageous, seems to hurt him. Recently, Lee offered his post-Columbine "solution" to violence in America. The Academy Award-nominated director said that the National Rifle Association "should...
OK, so it wasn't the Lincoln/Douglas debates. But it serves as a window into the mindset of the anti-gun "advocates." On May 19, Tom Selleck appeared on the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" to plug an upcoming movie. What happened looked like an ambush. O'Donnell, a rabid,...
"Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty." -- Alan Dershowitz, "The Best Defense," 1982. Assume, for a moment, that Dershowitz got it right -- that most of the guys the cops legitimately hook and book, the ones the DA prosecutes, did it. If true, this...
In perhaps the biggest outrage since the Holyfield/Lewis draw, a Michigan jury ordered the producers of the "Jenny Jones" show to pay $25 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Three days after appearing on the show, a guest shot and killed another guest. The family of...
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