Slaving and whaling dominated New England shipping prior to the Civil War. When the slave trade became illegal in 1808, fewer profits rolled into Yankee coffers. As slave-trade revenues decreased, abolitionist fervor in New ...
From June 9-12, while the American media was focusing its cruel klieg lights on, oh, Betty White switching her brand of adult diapers or something, over a hundred of the world’s most powerful financiers and policymakers ...
Enough with Gaza. I’ve done three columns in a row on Oygenflaygin vs. Akbar, and that’s plenty. If there’s one thing I despise about opinion columnists, it’s the fetish of covering the daily “big thing.” So ...
1991–1994: the heyday of “Holocaust revisionism” in America, with four major national TV shows (60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue) giving “revisionists” coverage. I had the unfortunate ...
Lying on the backboard, a frail little old lady moaned with discomfort. She had fallen beside her bed in the nursing home and was then tightly bound by straps onto the backboard, a cervical collar pushing her chin up and ...
The question was a valid one: “How could you, a conservative and a gentleman, be for them?” The man is an acquaintance of long standing, also a gent, so I bothered to explain: “Because I’ve been there and have seen ...
As I type this, the national pissing contest regarding Judge Vaughn Walker's decision overturning California's anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 is the top news story on both Yahoo! and Google. Back in 2008, amid a ...
Divorced, decapitated, dead"King Henry VIII's wives had it simple. For 21st-century fortysomethings"my contemporaries"the litany of woe is somewhat more extensive: dull, dumped, dejected, disillusioned, ...
Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which ...
I live in Georgia. My congressional representative is Hank Johnson, a Democrat whom I am unafraid to call stupid. In April at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Johnson expressed genuine concern that sending more ...
A roundup of news items from last week (and a few tidbits from the week before). HOME The White House Press Corps whined about having "absolutely no access" to Barack Obama. Less than a day after The New Republic ...
It goes without saying that there should, for reasons of social justice, be full representation of all demographic groups in all human endeavors: for example, in scientific fraud. There is, apparently, a lamentable ...
I’ve had a longstanding instinctive loathing of those who perpetrate gimmick art, a genre of which Lucian Freud was a master. His art was as sordid as his person, reflecting his loathing of human nature in general and ...
In Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster, the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" "Then you better ...
Donald Trump: The First Jewish President? Whoa Mr Cole, which Jews are you talking about? Just about everyone at the synagogues I attend, think President Trump is the greatest thing that happened to America since the 1st ...
Dear Gato, Not only is the Silk Road down and out, so is Atlantis, and so are the majority of illegal cyber-markets upon which the bad and the badder have depended for decades. The world below the surface is changing as ...
It is a world historical event when Jonah Goldberg"one of our most prominent conservative intellectuals, judging by his book sales and his almost daily TV appearances"weighs in on gay marriage. Jonah is not some ...
FEAR OF AN ALPHA FEMALE Dear Delphi, I am a 53-year-old man at the very start of a relationship with a very beautiful, affluent, and powerful woman. The problem is that I think she may be too spoiled to handle the ...
One of my sergeant majors was an airborne soldier and what he said was gospel to us. We young soldiers saw the wings on his arm and asked him what parachuting was like. He said it was the second-best feeling in the world. ...
On January 30, the New York Post took a dig at Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who was accused of "rewriting history" by uttering the following statement about Black History Month: "We know there was ...
At six foot nine, Kris Humphries may literally be the world's biggest ass. This giant goober-faced fool is a basketball player who was briefly married to pneumatic Armenian reality-TV star Kim Kardashian. As a frequent ...
It ain’t “nostalgia” if you weren’t there. “Anachronistic” more accurately describes the current left-wing sensibility. Watching twenty-somethings at Occupy gatherings clad in late-1970s punk gear while cheering ...
Great news for Joe Biden. After months of abysmal public approval numbers, President Biden's favorability among registered voters has soared by 2 points to 45%! And all he had to do was bring us to the brink of World War ...
Dave: “Let’s talk about Doug Mackey, the guy convicted of posting memes!” Readers: “Oh crap, I bet Dave’s gonna be contrarian and scolding, like a broken fucking record.” Dear readers, you shouldn’t cuss so ...
