March 2024 Dear (if I may be so bold) Ray, I read Jonathan R. Eller’s collection of your correspondence, from the fan mail you sent in your youth to the letters and emails you sent in 2007. Eller writes that, before your death in 2012, you approved of his publishing some of your letters: “Oh
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden got his annual check-up from his longtime physician, who called the octogenarian “healthy” and “active.” That check-up, however, did not include a cognitive exam. Biden’s behavior this week shows he should be thankful for the omission. During a Monday afternoon taping of NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, for example,
The mainstream media for years downplayed and denied the border crisis. They largely avoided the term itself and sometimes outright derided it. Then, in late January, the White House backed a border security bill and congressional Republicans killed the legislation, saying it was too weak. Suddenly, “border crisis” was in the headlines, and news outlets
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A jury in Arizona this week found former state senator Tony Navarrete (D.) guilty of sexually abusing a minor but acquitted him on a second charge of child molestation. The Thursday verdict came following another jury’s failure last year to reach a unanimous decision. Navarrete, then a major player in the state legislature, was first
Ran Bar-Yoshafat invited to speak to a campus Jewish group Ran Bar-Yoshafat (Israel National News) University of California, Berkeley, administrators have offered no apology to Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat, whose speech to a campus Jewish group was abruptly canceled by the university after violent protesters choked a female student attendee, spit in another attendee’s face,
First brother Jim Biden provided explosive new details about his nephew Hunter Biden’s previously undisclosed meetings with a corrupt Chinese businessman, whom Hunter has called the “f—ing spy chief of China.” In a congressional deposition last month, Jim Biden said he accompanied Hunter Biden to Hong Kong in September 2017 to meet with Patrick Ho,