I recently did a duplex book review for a respectable conservative quarterly (relevant issue not yet in print). The two books I reviewed, this one and this one, were of the boosterist type, the boosteree in both cases being the U.S.A. Our country has a glorious future, these authors say. The ...
From inception to the Moon landing, Apollo ran nine years. Nowadays it would take nine years just to get the diversity quotas ...
So how are you doing at keeping up with events in MENA (the Middle East and North Africa)? Can the new Iraqi government get some kind of military act together? Will the Kurds hold on to Kobani, that Syrian city under siege by ISIS? Will the big guys in the neighborhood"Iran, Israel, Turkey, ...
A Public Service Announcement " Ebola tourism? " Cluelessness and chaos " Dependency and entitlement " What, me, worry? " The romance of American blackness " Being mean to MENA " Kill a cop, win liberal hearts " Where’s Fat Boy? " UKIP defeats Right and ...
Zero Shades of Gray. The U.S. Supreme Court punted on homosexual "marriage" the other day. I can"t summon up much interest, having long since sunk into fatalism on the issue. The cultural revolutionaries are going to shove this absurd notion down our throats [sic] and there's ...
But don't you dare call it "privilege." In this racist society of ours, only white people have ...
History is full of strange folds, wrinkles, and repetitions. Consider for example the following true story. There was once a great empire of the despotic-bureaucratic sort. It had enjoyed centuries of glory; but at last came corruption, political paralysis, foreign incursions, and ...
Holder's a loathsome creep all right, but the worst thing is that he's not terrifically ...
A new study on world population trends came out last week from the University of Washington in Seattle. If you"re one of those people who worry about an overpopulated world, the news is bad: total human population, currently a tad over seven billion, will likely be eleven billion by the end ...
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