The Fromson File

We seventh graders who lived on December 7, 1941 will always remember the Day that Will Live in Infamy, marking the day of the Japanese’ surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. I can never forget the time when several Los Angeles policemen escorted several of my Japanese-American friends in tears out of our classroom to be [...]

This has been a tough time for Porky. Not content to let the animals wallow in their mud, the world is in a frenzy over an alleged epidemic that may have nothing at all to do with a life-threatening influenza. According to the latest accounts about so-called swine flu, a few hundred Americans have been [...]

If you wonder what you’ll be missing when newspapers vanish, consider two stories that appeared in morning newspapers that have yet to make it to the online geniuses who will decide the content of alternative journalism in the near future. Both examples deal with the infuriating decisions rendered by the bureaucrats in the service of [...]

Beware, this gets complicated and outrageous… An account of how Lawrence Summers enriched himself handsomely before coming to the White House was not exactly new news. But when Frank Rich dug it up and repeated the details last Sunday in the New York Times (4/12), it packed quite a wallop. I just wonder how many [...]