Peter Collier – FPM
EDUCATION BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley. MA English l963 UC Berkeley. TEACHING l963-69–Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley. l966–Instructor in English, University of San Francisco....
View ArticleSex, Lies and Sarah
The media's useful idiot won't go away. Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell, substituting somewhat grimly for the convulsive Keith Olbermann, closed “Countdown” by recycling—almost in its entirety—a CBS...
View Article23 Skidoo
Witticism of the Day: Conservatives, to paraphrase the late Irving Kristol, are liberals and moderates who have been mugged by Obama. MSNBC correspondents David Schuster and Tamron Hall spent some...
View ArticleThe Right’s Resurrection – by Peter Collier
MSNBC correspondents David Schuster and Tamron Hall spent some time trying to shape the battlefield for today’s elections in their afternoon news show yesterday. They featured DNC Chairman (and...
View ArticleThe Spin Starts Here
The Dems are spinning so hard today that the earth may be in danger of flying off its axis. Some of the intellectual chaos they have generated was on display this afternoon on Chris Matthews’...
View ArticleThe Spin Starts Here – by Peter Collier
The Dems are spinning so hard after Tuesday’s elections that the earth may be in danger of flying off its axis. Some of the intellectual chaos they have generated was on display Wednesday afternoon...
View ArticlePresumed Guilty – by Peter Collier
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace gave Jack Reed, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, an opportunity to defend the decision to give KSM a civilian trial in New York. After enumerating the many...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Unhinged – by Peter Collier
Andrew Sullivan seems increasingly unhinged these days. The creepy, Torquemada-like obsession with Sarah Palin continues as he rummages through her book in a deranged act of explication de texte,...
View ArticleUnholy Alliance: Zinn, Chomsky, Bin Laden
Every so often we experience what Jung called synchronicity—the sudden perception of a possibly meaningful pattern in apparently unrelated events. I had one of these moments myself last week. The...
View ArticleThe New Attack on Palin? Associate Her with John Edwards
Wednesday, February 3, 2010, marked a new turn in the obsessive attacks on Sarah Palin: associating her with John Edwards. In the New York Times Timothy Egan sees them as a pair of ethically similar...
View ArticleWhen Israel Had a Champion at the UN
Reprinted from Jerusalem Post. Editor’s note: Peter Collier is the author of the recently published, “Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick” (Encounter Books, 2012). To order it,...
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