Jimmy Lai

One Man Versus China

This week, while we celebrate the work of America's founders, I honor a living freedom fighter: billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai. When Communist China crushed freedom in Hong Kong, Lai could have gone anywhere in the world and lived a life of luxury. But he chose to stay in Hong Kong and go to jail. A new documentary, "The Hong Konger," tells his story. Lai grew up in poverty in China. "My mother was (imprisoned) in a labor camp," he recalls. "We were just 5 or 6 and managing ourselves without an adult in the household. When I was 8 and 9, I worked in the railway station carrying ...

Gettysburg, PA

America Needs a Civil War

If, as many geniuses have believed, civilization depends on individual restraint, then in order to maintain restraint, we require certain outlets for the primordial feelings of ...

The Difference Between Firmness and Cruelty

A story that appeared recently in Libération, the left-wing French newspaper in financial difficulty, seemed to me to capture the spirit of our times very well. It concerned an ...

The Men That Others Forgot

On September 20, 2013, President Obama flew the black flag above his White House to honor prisoners of war and soldiers still missing in action. If you were unaware of this, it ...

General Eric Shinseki

Iraq: Ten Years After

It's been ten years since the Iraq War was launched. Back then, a few prominent individuals endeavored to thwart what is perhaps the greatest strategic mistake in United States ...

Women in Combat: Another Nail in the Coffin

On January 23, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women in combat. He gave the generals three years to open up all positions to women, and if any of them think there ...

Al Franken

The Neocowardice of Rich Lowry

Imagine if Al Franken gave you a call and offered to fight you. A real fight, too"€”no gloves, no clock, and no rules. Would you do it? Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, ...

The Night They Punched His Lights Out in Georgia

Shortly before the stroke of midnight on August 24 in Savannah, GA, a young interracial couple was strolling downtown through a former slave market called Ellis Square. ...

The Legend of Whining Coyote

What did the Indian say when he crossed the road? "€œMe just walkum Trail of Tears!"€ Merely for telling that joke, current mores dictate that I should apologize and make ...

The Value of the Guiding Hand

Leaning over the bar in London's Union Jack Club drinking rum, I stood on legs of flesh and bone. The soldier next to me stood on legs of plastic and metal. He"€™d lost three ...

The Nanny-Goat State

For men and women who’ve voluntarily joined an organization that demands (legally) blind obedience and counsels its minions to “Embrace the Suck,” American ...

Muammar Gaddafi

Gaddafi’s Bitter (and Sore) End

Being a dictator must be an amazing intoxicant. Given the choice between keeping his throne or living a life of lavish luxury in exile, Muammar Gaddafi chose to stay “in ...

Never Trust Anyone Who Hasn’t Been Punched in the Face

Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, reality TV. Blaming ...


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