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Great news! For the millions of U.S. immigrants who really wanted to immigrate to Haiti, but couldn't get in ... Guess what? The country you're living in is about to become Haiti. This will also come as good news to the ...
Great news! For the millions of U.S. immigrants who really wanted to immigrate to Haiti, but couldn't get in ... Guess what? The country you're living in is about to become Haiti. This will also come as good news to the ...
We’ve all been trained since infancy to believe that stereotyping is wrong. We’ve also been trained—almost potty-trained—to believe that the worst possible form of stereotyping is anti-Semitism, because unless it ...
Stop me if you"ve heard this one before: There are some jobs Americans won"t do. Therefore, we need Third World labor to come pick up the slack. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that line parroted in the ...
Canadian history is crushingly dull. Imagine anybody screaming, “Peace, order and good government!” while storming the barricades"or, for that matter, there being any barricades to storm. Canada’s ...
The latest brouhaha about professional football players beating up their little wimmen has me shocked, shocked that such a thing could take place in modern day America, home of the depraved. But before I go on about why ...
The only man I know who belonged to more gentlemen's clubs than Eddie Ulmann was the late Bobby Sweeny of amateur golf fame, who once pleaded poverty to me while signing checks to something like twenty clubs spread around ...
Aristophanes was a comic genius before the Marx Brothers, but he also gave good advice to the Athenians: Stop the war! In his play Lysistrata he had the women going on strike—no more nookie—until the men stopped ...
With my hometown of Los Angeles coming back into fashion again, it’s worth wondering whether some of its traditional problems are fixable. Or do urban-planning mistakes tend to be forever? There’s glib talk these ...
“Abe tightens grip on power as Japanese shun election.” So ran the page one headline of the Financial Times on the victory of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Sunday’s elections. Abe is the most ...
Since Marco Polo, Italy has always been the first European recipient of Chinese products. It happened with la pasta and today it happens with coronavirus. Currently the entire country is undergoing a kind of quarantine, ...
The Week’s Most Conceited, Defeated, and Maltreated Headlines CALIFORNIA AQUARIUM SHAMED FOR FAT-SHAMING AN OTTER If your personal struggle to achieve social justice doesn’t extend beyond the human sphere to ...
In the early 1980s I became familiar with a cartoonist whom I considered to be one of the cleverest men I had read in a very long time. I collected as many of his pieces as possible. When I showed a friend his work, ...
The Supreme Court will soon rule on college admissions affirmative action. (Heck, they might have already announced their decision by the time you read this.) What should the Supreme Court do next? Here are some key ...
It seemed that only minutes after the College of Cardinals selected Pope Francis as their new pontiff, the popular press was accusing him of enabling the torture of Jesuit priests in Argentina's "Dirty War" and ...
Juliette Gréco’s recent death in her 90s brought back some melodramatic memories. Back in 1957 Gréco was one of France’s premier chanteuses of torch songs, a very sexy young woman all dressed in black with auburn hair ...
I find myself detached from mainstream culture. It started with the demise of nightclubs like Annabel’s, and the people that frequent them with names like Lil Nas X, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Fat Joe, Pusha T, DaBaby, and others ...
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan ...
"Narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system." These are the words of Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia. In a speech given in Moscow in 2014, he pointed the finger ...
An eager litter of two dozen or so suckling prog-pups calling themselves “Patriotic Millionaires” scampered playfully into Washington, DC, on Wednesday, barking and howling at Congress to please tax them more. Legally, ...
The New York Times has announced a forum to discuss democracy in the cradle of democracy, Athens, sometime in September of this year. It is as if the late John Gotti held a forum to discuss crime in Chicago, God rest his ...
I rarely feel sorry for professional politicians, especially powerful ones; after all, they have chosen their career and (especially in modern conditions) have generally pursued power to the exclusion of all other possible ...
The never-Trumpers are never going to surrender the myth that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee to defeat Clinton ...
Spaniards alternate between rage and bewilderment as Europe lurches closer toward the currency implosion that will most likely vaporize Spain's banking sector. Wasn"t it yesterday that the country boasted the EU's ...
Readers of Takimag would do well to dial down the U.S. election noise blurting from all sources of their electronic cage and point browsers to the only site that matters: John Stossel and Maxim Lott's Election Betting Odds, ...
