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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
