Category Archives: Hal’s Commentary

I hope you’re enjoying my much more frequent posts at www.halginsberg.com.  Thanks to all who have commented.  I take topics from the Morning Show to write about and discuss what I’ve written as well.

click here for part 1 of this series Since 2010, the San Francisco Giants have won three National League pennants, two World Series, and are now competing for their third1. By roster talent alone, they are a good but not … Continue reading →

The San Francisco Giants just won their third National League pennant in five years and, as of this post, are tied 1-1 with the Kansas City Royals in the World Series. The Giants were World Champs in 2010 and 2012.

Peter Hamby concludes his Oct 19 Outlook review of Alec MacGillis’s The Cynic, the Political Education of Mitch McConnell by questioning whether the author would have written such a negative appraisal if McConnell were a Democrat. Hamby points out that … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful dream. In late September, Kentucky Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes seemed positioned to unseat Republican minority leader and Koch lackey Mitch McConnell. After heavy rotation of this ad, wherein a shotgun-totin’ Grimes takes dead aim … Continue reading →

My goal is to post at least two commentaries plus the newsletter weekly right here at halginsberg.com.  I’ve been pretty much on schedule.  I am also writing more letters to the editor of the Washington Post, including one today, and … Continue reading →

Corey Robin concludes in The Reactionary Mind that working and middle-class white men1 derive tangible benefits from conservative governance and therefore are acting rationally when they vote for plutocratic business off-shorers like Republican Mitt Romney. Historians Mark Lilla and Sheri … Continue reading →

I’m not one of those “if you broke it, you’ve got to fix it” types.  So even though the Cheney/Bush administration clearly created a favorable environment for the evolution of ISIL (I won’t call it ISIS since ISIS is a … Continue reading →

Less than a month until the election.  Please make sure you vote for the most progressive candidate in every race who has a chance to win.  We’ll continue our coverage of the 2014 mid-terms this week. I have posted my … Continue reading →

On Sunday September 21, over 300,000 people rallied in Manhattan at the People’s Climate March. Basically a feel-good event designed to spotlight popular concerns about anthropogenic global warming, the Marchers failed in at least one respect, they were pointedly ignored … Continue reading →

First of all, I’ve got a new show number.  Effective today, call 1 (844) FOR-HALG/1 (844) 367-4254 to reach the Hal Ginsberg Morning Show.  Second, I will be launching a new website at www.halginsberg.com soon look out for that.

As a newspaper columnist, celebrated Jewish filmmaker Aviva Kempner is a very good baseball documentarian. In the Washington Post’s 2014 Yom Kippur edition, Kempner blasts the lords of baseball for scheduling games on the holiest of Jewish holidays thus forcing … Continue reading →

We have just a few regulars scheduled this week but the Hal Ginsberg Morning Show will be just as good as ever. I’m also working on a new website which we will unveil within the next few weeks.

Dear Righty – why do you think you don’t believe housing, education, and healthcare should be deemed fundamental human rights?

I’ve been stepping up my blogging lately.  If you have any interest in academic disputes and how costly an ill-considered tweet should be, you may want to check out my take on the decision of the University of Illinois not … Continue reading →

Generally, I am skeptical of claims of anti-semitism in the academy. I think that people for a variety of reasons confuse legitimate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. Accordingly, I was inclined to side with former University of Illinois Professor Steven … Continue reading →

The weather is beautiful here in Montgomery County Maryland.  I trust it is equally lovely on the Central California Coast.  If you haven’t seen my letter in today’s Washington Post, here’s the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gina-raimondos-bad-return-on-investment-shouldnt-earn-her-the-governors-seat/2014/09/12/ecf377c6-39da-11e4-a023-1d61f7f31a05_story.html In every weekly newsletter, I urge … Continue reading →

We missed trial attorney Cari Simon last week.  She practices campus law with Doug Fierberg with and for whom I used to work.  Cari joins us Monday to discuss a proposed new law in California that would add a presumption … Continue reading →

A couple of articles really caught my attention over the weekend.  In today’s Washington Post, George Will’s Paul Ryan rethinks the ‘makers’ and ‘takers’, and in Salon, Andrew O’Hehir’s, “Why acknowledging white privilege is not surrendering to ‘white guilt’”, a … Continue reading →

I didn’t send out a newsletter last week since I got back from New York late Sunday afternoon but we did spend an awful lot of time discussing the recent events in Ferguson, MO, from the killing of Michael Brown … Continue reading →