I was listening last week to Glenn Beck discussing the Charlie Gard situation with Bill O’Reilly. During the conversation, Glenn asked Bill if he had read the “official statement” from the Pope. Neither Bill nor I had read the actual statement. The Pope apparently said this was a “complicated matter”… CONTINUE
The Pope, Global Warming and the Elusive Meaning of Morality
A while back I was on the O’Reilly Factor talking about the liberal idea of raising taxes on the rich. Bill brought the Bible into the conversation, referring to the passage about how it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for… CONTINUE
“Billy Wilder, The Pope & Me” and “Allah Be Damned”
My two favorite movie writer-directors were Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. Both worked at Paramount Studios in the 40s, which was fortuitous for Wilder. That’s because they were both successful screenwriters when Sturges persuaded the studio to let him direct his own scripts. That decision led to a flurry of… CONTINUE
“I Used To Be A Democrat” and “Do Liberals Ever Listen To Themselves?”
It’s true that for a long time, an inexcusably long time, I was a registered Democrat. But even then, I never called myself a liberal. Because I came of age in the 1960s, I associated liberals with the punks I knew who called cops “pigs,” called soldiers “baby killers” and… CONTINUE
Saints & Martyrs
A while back, I took Hank Aaron to task for hanging on to hate mail from 1974, when he was closing in on Babe Ruth’s career homerun record of 714. To this day, he admits to storing the stuff in his attic so he would never forget. He also said… CONTINUE