Barack Obama versus John McCain. One of the first things that supporters of Obama ought to realize is that attacking, belittling or characterizing John McCain by emphasizing his age is a mistake. It is a mistake that may backfire and cost them a lot of votes with seniors in this...

Before I get into Obama, the SAG strike and renewable energy, I wanted to talk about Patti LuPone. Yeah. That's right. Patti LuPone. What the world needs now is Patti LuPone. I have worked in my business since 1980 and I have seen a lot of changes. One thing that...

I watch this stuff on YouTube about Al Franken and I am sick to my stomach. Norm Coleman, a former Democrat who had the unusual luck to run against a retirement-age Walter Mondale in order to fill the seat vacated by the tragic death of Paul Wellstone, is busy digging...

It's time to bestow my first annual award to the corporate authority figure who makes the most ignorant statement in an attempt to influence the fall election. The award shall henceforth be named for its first recipient, The Carl Icahn Award.

Icahn let it be known that Barack Obama, who...

I had once considered John McCain an ultimately acceptable choice for president.

I thought that, compared to the other Republicans in the field earlier, McCain was a man who had lived a serious life. He had faced serious problems and offered respected solutions to issues such as campaign finance...

Lotta folks on this site hating Hillary because she's a woman. Lotta folks on this site loving Hillary because she's a woman. Makes me think that, in some quarters, men have been uncomfortable with women a lot longer than whites have been uncomfortable with blacks.

Sometimes I honestly believe that...

I remember sitting in an anteroom at Queens College back in 2000. I was there, along with Senator Schumer, to introduce Hillary Clinton, who was running for her first term as senator from New York. Before I went out to make my introduction, a very young woman who was a...

The continuing devastation unleashed by the US subprime crisis not only impacts Americans and their investments in real estate, it is also having terrible effects on foreign economies. According to Max Keiser and his excellent reporting for the People and Power series on Al Jazeera, Iceland is quaking under the...

I browsed some of the responses to my last post about Eliot Spitzer.

Thank you to those that expressed understanding of my main point. However, I was sorry to see two things here. One was the vitriol expressed toward Spitzer's work as New York Attorney General,...

Spitzer and a hooker. How remarkable. So much to lose. So much hubris. A DWI, maybe. Cruising down the Taconic at 80 mph with no seat belt, sure. But hookers and electronic trails of evidence? Doesn't seem possible.

I was one of those who danced in the streets,...

Raise your hands if you remember the Keating Five scandal of the late 1980's.

Charles Keating ran the Lincoln Savings and Loan. The Reagan administration, those God-fearing, brush-clearing, "Morning-in-America" humanists, wanted less regulation of "thrift" banks so that they could invest in riskier real estate deals. The results of those...

On Thursday, February 21, 2008, my old friend J. Michael Bloom died.

Bloom was my first agent, who I signed with in the Fall of 1980. I worked with him for eleven years, during which time he was one of my greatest friends. Bloom was one of the great, and...

This was forwarded to me from my friend Max Keiser, globetrotting reporter and host of Decline of the Dollar on the BBC.

This is a story that is largely ignored in the US regarding Saudi threats to the British government to halt inquiries into potentially corrupt Saudi arms dealing:

Watching some Democrats kick around Mrs. Clinton has grown into a sad spectacle.

Hillary Clinton would make a fine president and I think all reasonable people know that. She would make a better president, offering more constructive policies protecting more Americans, than McCain could ever hope to. Her problem is...

For Democrats in this country, the choice has been difficult. Now, it is almost excruciating. The freshness and vitality of Barack Obama versus the experience and doggedness of Hillary Clinton. In the wake of the endless nightmare of the Bush years, Democrats seem to want someone truly exceptional. They seem...

I was surprised by some of the comments that accompanied my recent post regarding the racially charged column in the Independent, on Long Island.

First, I don't see how anyone can ask, "Why reprint this? They pulled it from their website." So, essentially, leave it alone? Well, why bother...

UPDATE, 1-30-08: Exposing Racism: A Worthwhile Thing To Do

For those of you wondering how the Obama ascendancy is playing out in Small Town America, I offer you this column from the Independent, a weekly newspaper published on the East End of Long Island by Jerry Della Femina,...

On the same day that Starbucks announces that it will no longer offer organic milk to customers at its 15,000 stores, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that cloned animals are safe to eat. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the "voluntary moratorium" observed by farmers...

That Robert Elisberg keeps putting out funnier and funnier stuff. His "quips" are killing me. Actually, it was my ex-wife and I who were the actors he referred to in his Neil Simon quip. Elisberg quipped that my ex made some unfortunate comment about the writing on The Marrying...

To Mr. Elisberg and all other strike supporters, I believe there is only one fundamental consideration regarding this strike: the studios and the networks love it. They absolutely love it. Most industry people I talk to here in New York, the land of the corporations that actually own the...