S.E. Cupp: Lessons from NY’s election
In cable news, we practice the persuasive arts — and I’ll be the first to admit that we commentators have a penchant for hyperbole and a tendency to overstate. We especially like to do that with local and midterm elections like New York’s congressional special election.
Dr. Jessica Johnson: ‘Gospel’ shows great meaning of these songs
One of the Black history documentaries that I had marked on my to-see list is the recently released PBS “Gospel” series that is hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Jerry Zezima: Leave it to Geezer
The day after I turned 70, I got an email urging me to buy burial insurance.
Gary Franks: Black History Month – The ‘basketballist’
I am a blessed man. I am an American. I am a Black American, a descendant of slaves who has been granted the vast opportunities this country has to offer. Praise God. It did not have to be this way.
Cal Thomas: Gospel on PBS lifts spirits
If you are tired of TV shows like “The Bachelor” where women demean themselves by competing for the “love” of a man; if you are sick of all the shootings and explosions on TV, the canned laughter on sitcoms that mostly aren’t funny (which is why they have to insert canned laughter in the first place); if you want to have your spirit lifted out of the mundane and into the heavens, there is a place you can go.
Robert B. Reich: Who’s Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the world?
The mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to talk about this, but it’s important that America and the world face what seems increasingly clear: Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the world — the person prepared to allow Putin to mount additional wars of aggression in Europe — is the leading Republican contender for president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Holy Cow! History: Wisconsin’s million-dollar blunder
File this in that bulging category, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
S.E. Cupp: As GOP collapses, so could USA
“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall.”
John Grindrod: TV, where once it bonded, now, not so much
For those of us who’ve been granted the gift of more time here on earth than was afforded to so many others, we often think of the changes that have occurred during our lives. We have seen so very much in terms of technological advances.
Lori Borgman: Funny what you sometimes remember
I sometimes wonder how accurate childhood memories are. Experts are somewhat divided on the matter; but what aren’t experts divided on?
