What’s the point of college?

My piece in the Post yesterday: Colleges need to stop pretending their purpose isn’t job-related and start focusing on teaching skills to help graduates get good jobs.

We are all Federalists now

Obama endorses gay marriage on a state by state basis. That’s my position too yet liberals always yell at me about it while Obama’s turnaround on the issue is the greatest thing to happen ever. Funny, that.

Let Tebow be Tebow

My column in the NY Post today notes that while authenticity is king in our culture, and “be yourself” is our modern mantra, it annoys people that Tim Tebow does just that.

Mommy wars

My latest for the NY Post: Hilary Rosen’s comments about Ann Romney is just another shot in the old stay-at-home-mom vs. work-outside-the-home-mom battles.

No Russian Sharpton is a-ok

I had an article in the NY Post this week about how the Russian community has gotten some bad press lately and doesn’t have a well-established grievance group–but why that’s not a bad thing.

I can pin without friends

My latest piece in the NY Post wonders why the internet has to be so damn social.

I’m as guilty of it as anyone, of course, maybe even more so, but still think we can live without so much online socializing. Not every site has to be Facebookish with comments, likes, friends, etc.

Like it if you like it! Oh and follow me on Pinterest.

Mourning in America

Like so many others, I haven’t stopped thinking about Andrew Breitbart since we learned the tragic news last week that he died at 43.

It’s not so much “how?”, I can’t stop thinking: why? Why did he have to die? He was in the prime of his life, at the peak of his career, he loved his wife so much, he had four gorgeous kids. Why does it have to be this way?

I’ve been in a blur for days. I knew him but not well enough to be this despondent. Monday night showed me that there are so many others like me, feeling around in the dark without an Andrew Breitbart to guide us.

Two nights ago, my friends David Bernstein, Robert George and I put together an event to celebrate Andrew’s life. We started out with an invite list of about 100, then it ballooned to almost 400. I think over a hundred people showed up. Maybe more. We met in the tiny Sanctuary bar in midtown and toasted the man of men, Andrew Breitbart. The place was super packed, spilling out the door at many points in the night.

So many people had a story. He was funny, he was kind. He was confrontational, he was fearless. No one can take his place. We’re so sad to lose him but we celebrated that we ever had him at all.

We toasted his life. I think the only thing Andrew wouldn’t have liked is that he missed the party.

I only started taking pics pretty late into the event so, unfortunately, I missed a lot of people. If anyone else has pics, please let me know: alarmingnews at gmail.com and I’ll link them here. Also, if anyone has video of my toast or Pamela Geller’s, please, please send it to me.

Crowd out the door to get in (The only faces in the pic are Gerard Perry on the right and Mark Cunningham on the left):

Jeffrey Wendt’s button:

Mark (I didn’t get his last name),Judith Weiss and Jeffrey Wendt:

@Prettynumbers and I

Kyle Smith, Abe Greenwald and @Prettynumbers

Me and my co-host David:

Abe Greenwald, Matt Welch, Michael Moynihan and me.

We toasted. A lot.

That’s Avik Roy in the foreground, super narrow bar in background.

Hunter Walker, from the NY Observer, interviewing Matt Welch. Hunter ended up writing a piece called “What Would Breitbart Do? Manhattan Conservatives Mourn Fallen Firebrand”

It was an amazing night. So many different kinds of people made the trip from all over the tri-state area to celebrate the life of this incredible man. R.I.P. Andrew Breitbart. You’re already so missed.

UPDATE: Anthony Bialy has a take from the Toast.

MORE: Pamela Geller writes it up as does Big Fur Hat.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Gerard at American Rattlesnake has a great write-up.

Commemorating Breitbart

If you’re in NYC, and want to raise a glass in memory of Andrew Breitbart, some people are getting together at the Sanctuary Bar, 314 West 39th St (b 8/9), Monday at 7pm.

R.I.P. Andrew Breitbart

I don’t know who made this graphic but I think it’s pretty spot on.

I’ve got a piece on WNYC commemorating the Andrew Breitbart I knew.

Vote for Reagan

If you’re in Brooklyn this Saturday night, check out a reading by Matthew Lysiak. He’ll be reading from his new book “The Choice, Ronald Reagan versus Barack Obama and the Campaign of 2012.” followed by a discussion on Reagan’s influence in today’s election this Saturday at 7 pm at BookMark 8415 Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

“We may be fat and emotional — but bad parents we are not.”

I’ve got a piece in the New York Post today on that French parenting book everyone has been talking about.

The book is a good read but ultimately it’s a self-help book about not needing self-help books

Bang bang

I was on NRA News with Cam Edwards from CPAC. Check it out here.

And I praise Bush for good measure

I compare Giselle Bundchen, and her comments about her Superbowl-losing husband Tom Brady, to Obama’s supporters whining about Republican obstructionism. The comment section at the link is a must-read. Oh the rage.

Divorce, inc.

My latest piece in the NY Post judges the whole Divorce Expo idea.

Will Obama endorse gay marriage before the election?

Wanna bet?

Me, TV, tonight

It’s a two-channel night for me tonight talking about that little primary in Florida.

I’ll be on the World Channel (ch.13 in NY, you can find you local channel at this link) from 8-9pm and then on NY1 from 10-11pm.

Not so funny

In my NY Post column today I explain why Mitt Romney’s funny-sounding self-deport immigration policy is actually pretty serious.