Jared the Jerk

Despite the catcalls and boos from some friends and even my wife, I was tickled to death on that November night of 2016 when The Donald was proclaimed America’s 45th president. It had a lot to do with my dislike for ...

Donnie and Jong Un, BFFs

SupremeCommanderDude: Hey, you up? What time is it there? The sun already saluted me three times today. AwesomeHillaryKiller: The Jongster! Just thinking about ya. SupremeCommanderDude: Oh yeah? Don’t worry, all the nuke ...

Bordering on Insanity

David Kaufman is an unknown writing protest letters to British newspapers against Elon Musk and the Fall of Rome. He equates the rise of the former with the demise of the latter. Losers like Kaufman tend to stretch things a ...

George Santos

Year-End Cleanup, Part II

As we ring in 2024, here’s Part II of my annual “bits that didn’t merit a full column but I still want to get them off my chest” year-end rant. Santos and Sinners A prediction: George Santos will become the J6 of ...

Kate Winslet

Raging Against the Moderns

NEW YORK—I went to see a revival of Arcadia in the beautiful Ethel Barrymore Theatre last Saturday night, and it made my day. Tom Stoppard is our greatest playwright, and I think Arcadia is his best play, although a ...

James Stewart and Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Manhattan Melodrama

NEW YORK—Summertime, and as the song tells us, “the livin’ is easy.” The temperature is in the nineties, girls’ dresses are at their flimsiest, love is in the air, and sex is everywhere—what else can one wish ...

Hugo Chávez

Chavez’s Successors

Some years ago, I vowed to catalog my books and tidy up my study before I died to make things a little easier for my executors. Among other things, this entailed throwing out the piles of magazines from several years ago ...

Save America: Ruin the Euro

When one lives in a madhouse, it isn’t prudent to speak with too much sense. When one lives in a banking house, it isn’t practical to make any sense at all. In that vein I proffer the Must-Bust-Boom Theory of ...

Colombia Lectures the USA About Drugs

On the drug war’s fortieth anniversary, the news from the front is rather grim. In Mexico, the clashes between the army and the formidable drug cartels have caused nearly 35,000 deaths in the past four years. In ...

Picking Apart Washington’s Scum

As everyone and his cousin know, the neocons are my least favorite "€œWashington insiders"€ and they divide generally into two categories, the ill-mannered, touchy Jews and their groveling or adulatory Christian ...

Keeping Up With Japan

Everyone lives in his own little world and unless he makes a special effort from time to time to enlarge it, there is a tendency with age for it to collapse in on itself and become yet smaller. It is for this reason that I ...

I’m a Barbie Boy, in a Women’s Prison

During this summer’s Barbie movie-mania, many female fans turning up to cinemas dressed from head to toe in ostentatious pink and sparkles have boasted to be “channeling their inner Barbie”—yet there is one woman ...

Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog

Crimes of Passion, Golden Statues and Fashion

Although most critics lambasted this year's Oscar show, I roared with laughter. The jokes were funny. Some were even hilarious. It was a ginormous improvement on last year's awards, even though the presentation felt dated ...

Pat Tillman, Tragic American Casualty

The Tillman Story is a documentary about Pat Tillman, the NFL player who, following 9/11, turned down a $3.6 million Arizona Cardinals offer to enlist as a private in the U.S. Army, then died in Afghanistan in 2004. The ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Hopping, Bopping, and Last-Minute-Shopping Headlines MAGILL, A GORILLA In a coda to the disastrous congressional testimony by U Penn president Liz Magill and Harvard Affirmative Action zombie Claudine Gay ...

Don”€™t Know Much About Capitalism

After eight years of watching conservatives blow trillions of dollars and comport themselves like anti-intellectual, jingoistic blockheads, I found myself ashamed to admit that the Left seemed to have all the genuine ...

Running With Masks

In ancient Greece glorious athletes competed naked, but in Tokyo they would have been forced to run the unhealthy marathon with a face mask. That would have been a rudeness of Olympic proportions that would make Baron de ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Humping, Lumping, and Border-Jumping Headlines EXTERMINATION CHARGING STATION You can’t spell “never again” without “EV.” Last week Elon Musk faced a revolt from Tesla owners fed up with the ...

Who Owns the Future?

“That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow.” So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Every three years, the Paris-based OECD holds its ...

The Green War on Children

Halloween isn’t for another three weeks, but environmental ghouls are on the haunt. A sadistic video released by global warming fear-mongers reveals an inconvenient truth about eco-radicals: They despise the very ...

Proud Boys, Virginia 2020

Hate Watchdogs Need Glasses

Too bad the Jewish students being harassed on campuses don't have the Proud Boys around to protect them. They can thank the Anti-Defamation League's Jonathan Greenblatt for making that impossible. Greenblatt could see ...

Coleen  Rooney

England: A Nation of Whiners in Search of Obscurity

Now is the winter of our discontent Made ever more wretched by this lack of sun. Caught in a blighted, anarchic winter's grip, Britain is beset by swine flu, influenza B, H2N3, and a host of other diseases. Heathrow ...

Why Are We Baiting the Bear?

Is the Senate trying to reignite the Cold War? If so, it is going about it the right way. Before departing for a five-week vacation, the Senate voted to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be provinces of Georgia ...

Too Hot For the White House?

Some just-published research suggests that the incontestable hotness of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hurts her chances of becoming president, which is a sore disappointment to her admirers at Conservatives4Palin, and also to me. ...


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