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 is a job women can"t do, they"ll have to explain themselves. The combat arms"infantry, armor, and ...
Yesterday I stopped by a Methodist church that was having a charity Christmas-tree sale. A man told me the sale was over for the day and then wished me "Happy Holidays." "Don"t you mean "Merry Christmas"?" I asked, smoke coming out of my ears. Yes, this is the ...
Every so often some clown decides to call Thomas Jefferson a "racist," and other clowns let him publish the charge. The most recent clown is Paul Finkelman, a professor at Albany Law School, and the accessory clowns are The New York Times. Prof. Finkelman is shocked to find that Jefferson ...
Why do we still read Henry Louis Mencken? He was mostly a columnist, and columns are usually forgotten the day after they are published. One of the main reasons we still read Mencken is that he was enormously funny. The ability to write humorously about serious things is one of the rarest gifts an ...
The media love disaster. One can hardly sit through a half hour of cable news without hearing dire prophecies of "climate change" and other ecotastrophes. And over the past year, television pundits have warned incessantly that without massive Wall Street bailouts and compulsory Swine Flu ...
Lost in Justin Raimondo's torrent of mistaken assumptions and wild accusations is one useful question: What do "white nationalists" want? By putting the term in quotation marks, Mr. Raimondo has stumbled onto an important truth, namely, that there is no accepted term for contemporary ...
Thanks to a group of disgruntled firemen, the question of what it means to be white is back in the news. By late June, the Supreme Court will decide whether the city of New Haven, Connecticut was right to throw out the results of a promotions test for lieutenant and captain only because the top ...
All boys dream of acts of heroic violence. By the age of seven or eight they have saved their mothers from countless imaginary villains, and as they get older they save other even more interesting females. The trouble is that for those of us who do not make a living carrying a gun, opportunities ...
