Marc Cooper

Daughter Dearest, It is with great pain and a certain measure of shame that I write you this note. Having grown up in the ’60s and watched, sometimes at glaringly close range, the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, I had always harbored great dreams and aspirations for you. But......

CARDIOLOGISTS ALL ACROSS AMERICA rested easy with the selection of veteran Delaware Senator Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate. As the Obama campaign’s text-message announcement flashed through cyberspace in the afterhours of Friday night, the doctors’ personal pagers remained still. Not a single heartbeat was skipped; not one......

I do have a platinum American Express card, but I don’t have a Democratic Convention Premier Package. So I don’t think I’ll be going to the DNC’s big bash in Denver next week.The former costs me $300 a year and is well worth it. The latter, which is being furiously......

JOHN EDWARDS’ NATIONALLY TELEVISED confession on ABC’s Nightline this week was absolutely unconvincing and, in the end, rather revolting. “I don’t know who that baby is,” Edwards said when asked if he had, indeed, fathered the young child of Rielle Hunter. That baby? Haven’t we heard that before? You know,......

It’s about indictment, stupid. Not impeachment. It should be images of war criminal Radovan Karadzic being hauled away in handcuffs — not Bill Clinton being scolded by Congress — that should haunt the dreams of the about-to-be-exiled Bushies. What a monumental waste of time it was last week to watch......

IF THERE WERE SOME SORT of referee for the presidential election, would he step in now to stop the fight and call it for Obama? Need we really go all the way to November and watch this inhumane, bloody pummeling? In any case, McCain seems to have thrown in the......

THERE SURE ARE A LOT OF WHINERS out here in the San Fernando Valley. Driving down Ventura Boulevard early Tuesday morning, I saw about a hundred or so of them not only moaning and whimpering but also pushing, shoving and jostling each other outside the doors of the Encino branch......

THERE’S COLD FEAR in the blogosphere. Liberals from Malibu to Madison have broken out into hives. Hands are wringing and knickers are twisted. Turns out that Barack Obama might be a centrist! Or even worse, it seems. “Obama Veers Right!” screams a headline on the leftist Counterpunch Web site, as......

I KNEW GEORGE CARLIN. I saw him exactly one week before he checked out. And I can tell you that George Carlin was no Tim Russert. There has been no long line of dignitaries, pols, power brokers, media bigwigs and other assorted bloviating fools and hucksters lining up to eulogize......