Clint Eastwood told me the secret of his success on the set of”Space Cowboys”in 1999. It was my first studio movie, and he was gracious enough to let me hang around and watch him produce the script I’d co-written for him. For a newbie Hollywood writer, it was a life-changing experience, and every chance I...
Do you ever look at a cardboard box and think, “That’s a nice one — I should keep that just in case?” I know I do, and when I asked my social media following the same, there was an outpouring of corrugated love. As more commerce has moved online, we are interacting with more packaging...
Not one question Tuesday night about the execution of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages two weeks ago, or about any of the Americans murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7? Not one question on Iran, which is within weeks of acquiring a nuclear weapon and which is paying and perhaps precisely directing repeated attacks...
In a rare venture off her carefully crafted “script,” Vice President Kamala Harris commented on this week’s tragic school shooting in Winder, Georgia which left four dead and nine hospitalized. At her campaign rally in New Hampshire, Harris called the incident “a senseless tragedy,” and went on to lament that students have to be “concerned...
In recent years, the troubling rise of Jew-hatred in Canada, with antisemitic incidents growing in number and severity, has become a nationalemergency. As with any other national emergency, national unity is essentialin tackling the challenges that communities face across Canada, as is the call for collective action from all sectors of society. JEWS ‘UNDER SIEGE’...
My first political memory is being with my parents at an election night watch party in Show Low, Arizona, in 1976. They had been supporters of Ronald Reagan against Gerald Ford in the primary but had united with the party against Gov. Jimmy Carter. When Carter was declared the winner, my mother started to cry...
In their search for a foreign policy “win” for Vice President Kamala Harris,Foreign Policy magazinewants you to believe that she saved democracy in Guatemala while you weren’t looking. But the two of us have spoken at length with its former president in 2022, and he tells a very different story. Far from saving Guatemala, the...
Sweet Briar College confirmed this month it would limit admissions offers to women. This was a first-of-its-kind reassurance to women for the women’s college, which prior to 2024 found no reason to institute gender qualifications to attend their obviously single-sex school. Sweet Briar’s Board of Directorsexplained that because their founder specifically ordered the establishment of...
As we sift through the aftershocks of Tuesday night’s presidential debate, one question stands out: Who “won”? While many will sing Vice President Kamala Harris’ praises and point fingers at alleged moderator bias against former President Trump, the real question is — who gained more votes after the event? That’s where we need to draw...
Last December, FBI Director WraytoldCongress he’d never in his career seen so many threats against the United States as he did then. There were “blinking lights everywhere,” he said, a reference to a chapter in the9/11 Commission Report’s titled “The System Was Blinking Red.” Nine months later, as we mark the 23rd anniversaryofthe horrificterrorist strike...
