The American Spectator

Mm-hmm.

Published it in The American Spectator, and that day I went to lunch with another attorney and got an email, looked at it on my phone, and it was from an Alabama Supreme Court justice, an associate justice, Justice Tom Parker, and it just said, "Alan, please call me." And I thought, "Okay.

Well, when a justice of a state supreme court tells you to call him, you call him." So I did, and he said, "Alan"...

And we knew each other not, not particularly well, but he, um, he was a family friend, and his, his mother-in-law and my grandmother were sort of like Christian prayer warriors together.

Um, Thomas Mallon is maybe known to some of our audience, um, a longtime historical novelist.

I mean, also a contributor to, uh, The American Spectator back in the heyday.

Now, this is actually the first novel of Mallon's I read, but, um, it's an utterly captivating story.

It begins with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and then tells the tale of the two people who were in the box with Mr.

The...

What he did is, it's, it's his life experience at GQ, but it's set in the 1920s [laughs] to fictionalize it at a magazine like GQ, but it's the 1920s, and the magazine is called Band Box, and what, what, the hijinks that go on there.

He wrote a novel about Watergate, which is about sort of like, which is a parallel to our contributor Jamie Kirchick's book, Secret City, 'cause it's sort of about the secret life of, uh, gay Washington in the 1970s.

Um, and he just came out last year with a diary called The Very Heart of It, which is the, his years in New York City in the 1980s as AIDS was rising.

His piece right now in The Spectator.

Go to spectator.org. "El-Sayed executes Olympic class Medicare for All flip-flop in Senate debate." Just thinking about that clip that we played here, um, where he's having a discussion with Meet the Press, and, you know, he, she says, "If you like your doctor, can you keep your doctor? Will people be able to keep their plans?" He says, his answer is yes, but then he goes on to say, "As long as everybody does what the government says," which is really the, the, the, the process to getting to where he needs it to be.

So now you're telling all the consumers, the tax-paying, that's who's gonna be funding all of this for everyone, the tax-paying American citizens, "You have to participate in this program.

All the companies have to participate in this program the way the government says." Who is the check and the balance on what the government deems is worthy or necessary or adequate coverage for American citizens who are funding the healthcare that would be provided?

Take care.

Bye-bye.

Deroy Murdock, a nationally syndicated columnist, his piece on the, uh, El-Sayed, uh, flip-flop on Medicare for All in that Senate debate available at thespectator.org.

I just looked this up because y- you know, listening to Deroy say he hopes it doesn't get delayed any further past December 3rd, yeah, I second that.

They're inspired by the youths in France.

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Borden joins a gallery that includes Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein, with co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan already eyeing the next monsters.

And The Weeknd is young still.

I haven't read The American Spectator or Conservative Treehouse or any of these other places, but they're all taking the shots, the ones that have.

saying J.D. Vance doesn't know what socialism is, when that wasn't the question he was asked.

But it did give Fox News Digital a chance to go out and paint an interesting picture of the Vox Populi when it comes to socialists.

Senator John Fetterman, who has strayed from left-wing orthodoxy on several issues.

So says American Spectator Editor-in-Chief Dr. Paul Kengor on this American Radio Journal commentary.

I didn't leave the Democratic Party, said Ronald Reagan famously.

The Democratic Party left me.

He's author of The Necessary Men, the fourth novel in his satirical Mike Holman political thriller series.

Also contributing editor over at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride.

Hey, Scott, how are you?

Hey, thanks for having me.

Tell people a little bit about this series and, uh, and what this fourth novel in the series is all about.

Yeah, sure.

Well, um, so the Mike Holman books are sort of an extension of my columns at The American Spectator.

Um, [laughs] they're, uh, they're an opportunity to use fiction as a, um, a, a way to do political commentary, uh, on the conservative side.