Jun 8, 2023
There have been so many Chris Christies that I need to number them. Chris Christie 1.0, during the winter of 2015-16, mocked the notion that a reality-TV host had the credentials to lead the nation: “It’s all make believe, if you think that (Trump’s...
Jun 7, 2023
I’ve long viewed golf as too boring to write about – even though I did shoot in the high 80s on my high school’s golf team. That was eons ago, long before I learned about the environmental damage wrought by America’s golf courses (daily irrigation...
Jun 6, 2023
What a splendid week this would be – on the 79th anniversary of the GIs storming into Normandy to fight fascism – if Jack Smith, on the home front, were to strike a blow against fascism. OK, maybe it won’t be this week. But it’s manifestly...
Jun 4, 2023
Speaking in Parliament 83 years ago today – it was June 4. 1940 – Winston Churchill inspired his fellow Brits to battle the Nazis: “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with...
Jun 3, 2023
By Chris Satullo Not bad for a doddering old fool. Early this week, just before he hopped aboard his Marine One chopper, Joe Biden talked to a press gaggle about the debt ceiling deal he’d struck with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Here’s the first thing he...