UNALLOYED HEROISM: The Medals of George ‘Bud’ Day (1925-2013). At the top is the Command Pilot Badge of the Air Force. The ribbon at the top left is the Medal of Honor, next to the Air Force Cross. The second row contains, from the left, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The third row starts with the Bronze Star with a V device for Valor, then the Purple Hearts, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Medal with silver and bronze oak leaf clusters. Below that row are the Presidential Unit Citation, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with V for Valor, then the ribbon with the red-white-and-blue on either end and the black in the middle that is the Prisoner of War Medal, followed by the Combat Readiness Medal. The fifth row contains the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. The sixth row contains the Victory Medal of World War II, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, and the Vietnam Service Medal. The seventh row contains the Air Force Longevity Service Award, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, and the Commander Badge of the National Order of Vietnam. The last row contains the Vietnam Gallantry Cross, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Award, the United Nations Service Medal for Korea, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.
“April Flowers,” a group exhibition organized by New York Sun Arts contributor Xico Greenwald, opens today at the Queens College Art Center. The exhibit presents floral-themed artworks by 22 artists. “From the vegetal patterns of Islamic tile design…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
March 15, 2016
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC is paying tribute to First Lady Nancy Reagan, who died March 6th at the age of 94. A painting on paper of Mrs. Reagan in a cherry-red dress by portraitist Aaron Shikler has been installed in the museum’s…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
January 13, 2016
New York School painters Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson lived parallel lives. Born in 1924, they died at 90, just a few weeks apart, a year ago. They came of age in an art world dominated by Abstract Expressionism, but opted to work…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
April 1, 2016
Speaking before a packed audience at the prestigious Economic Club of New York, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, basically announced that there would be no rate hikes for quite some time — maybe once before yearend, maybe not. Her…
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
March 31, 2016
Maybe Drew Faust ought to run for president. She’s the head of Harvard University and just delivered at West Point a speech praising the military that once would have been unthinkable from Ivy League leadership. And just when we need it most — facing…
By BETSY McCAUGHEY, Special to the Sun
March 29, 2016
The Clinton campaign is finally owning up to what most Americans learned the hard way. The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. Its costs are “crushing” people who have to buy health insurance. Hillary Clinton vows to fix the problem, but…
Donald Trump is being badgered in Wisconsin today, on the heels of a defeat, at North Dakota, where most delegate chosen this weekend were supporters of Senator Cruz, albeit soft unbound supporters. Mr. Trump will point ahead to New York, where he is…
The Supreme Court had barely acted this morning on the latest voting rights case when the Democrats started crowing about a victory. The case — called Evenwel v. Abbott — was decided unanimously. It allows the states to continue to draw their election…
President Obama is signaling his plans for an extensive effort aimed at getting Merrick Garland confirmed to the Supreme Court. A front-page New York Times article lays out what it describes as “a deliberate White House strategy,” consisting of three…
It strikes us that Judge Merrick Garland missed an opportunity when he “bailed out,” to use Politico’s phrase, on the case of the dog shot by police officers in the Columbia District. The poor pooch barked at officers who barged into its owner’s home…
George Gilder’s brilliant new book — “The Scandal of Money” — underscores an odd fact. There’s an expanding list of newspapermen and writers who, having reached a certain age and covered the intellectual and political wars, have turned late in their…
News that the artist Odd Nerdrum is begging the Kingdom of Norway to be spared a year in jail is the dispatch that arrests our attention this morning. Nerdrum is a titanic figure in the tradition of Titian, say, or Rembrandt. He has been convicted in tax case over money held in a bank at Austria. What a tragedy were the Norwegians to fail to resolve the case in a way that lets the artist remain free. Yet the Norwegians are reportedly even vowing to prohibit him from painting while in prison.
The most important battle in the Middle East is the one taking place between President Obama and the Congress. It centers on the maneuvering by the President and Secretary of State Kerry to reward the Iranians far more than the administration…
“Crazy About Money” is the headline over Paul Krugman’s column attacking Senator Cruz. The Timesman says the senator has staked out positions that are “fundamentally crazy.” Along the way he puts down the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, as a “con man…
Thousands of pro-Israel activists converging on Washington next week for the annual conference of the mighty pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, will hear from Vice President Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. One…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
March 14, 2016
Canada is suffering from a prolonged pandemic of moral self-flagellation promoted by hemophiliac bleeding hearts and militant native agitators. The latest outburst of it is the recent decision of the governors of Wilfrid Laurier University in…
By BETSY McCAUGHEY, Special to the Sun
March 9, 2016
President Obama heads to Cuba in two weeks, eager to make more travel and trade concessions to its Communist regime. But members of Congress worry that Mr. Obama is so eager to befriend Cuba he’ll cave to any demand — including handing over the US…
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