How the Hard Right Could Lose an Easy Win

One more Super Tuesday piece. George Gascon, the Soros-backed mass-murdering district attorney, was up against a slew of candidates looking to take him down. Gascon had to get over 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff ...

Aging More Gracefully Than England

As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties. By the time you read this, I"€™ll be sixty years old. Or, as French and other Romance languages put it, I shall have ...

China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi added to the itinerary of a valedictory trip through Asia the island of Taiwan, she could not have been oblivious to the reaction she would produce in a stunned Beijing. Thus, when ...

Everybody Must Get Stoned

Executing a malefactor by stoning has received bad press due to a deplorable enthusiasm among certain modern Muslims for pelting adulterous women with rocks. But stoning seems no more cruel or unusual than many other ...

Ideology vs. the National Interest

When a nation fights for its life, ideology goes by the board. Gen. Washington danced a jig when he heard King Louis XVI had become a fighting ally in our Revolutionary War against the Mother of Parliaments. In our Civil ...

Diversity Up, Fertility Down?

The U.S. total fertility rate briefly exceeded the replacement rate of 2.1 babies per woman’s lifetime during the Housing Bubble of 2006–2007 but has since dropped steadily, hitting a new record low of 1.62 in 2023. ...

Reading, Writing, and Rupert

The Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual and temporal, are in a spin over reports that parents no longer read to their children and that the state is failing to protect the wee ’uns ...

The Truth About Legacies

After an initial burst of indignation at the Supreme Court for taking on the unpleasant task of informing college admissions offices that race discrimination is unconstitutional, the media's main focus quickly shifted to ...

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U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe Mullah

Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American bureaucrats thought they were negotiating with ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Narrowing, Harrowing, and Cupid’s Arrowing Headlines UP, UP, AND HUAWEI IN MY BEAUTIFUL BALLOON The Chinese just can’t help stealing intellectual property. And as always, their pilfered remakes are ...

Literature’s Most Influential Hussy

She lives on credit and lusts after entertainment, whether emotional or commercial. She derives her pleasure solely from seeing her reflection in the gleam of a man's eye or in the sheen of a new silk dress. Like a ...

Blackwater “€œCrusaders”€? As If!

The Blackwater affair has all the clichéd elements of Hollywood conspiracy "€œthrillers"€: an atrocity cover-up, a right-wing Christian villain at the helm of a powerful corporation, assassinations, and illicit sex. ...

Flame Retardeds

It’s not that most people are stupid (though way too many are). It’s that they become stupid when out of their element. I know girls from high school, dumb as bricks back then, not exactly rocket scientists today. But ...

On Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative

Something called the Clinton Global Initiative has been brought to my attention by an AP dispatch dated September 21st entitled “Bill Clinton: Economy, disasters imperil millions.” At first, I suspected it was a ...

Letters

Too Much Monkey Business No, they cancelled ALL the Roseanne shows, including every single old episode re-run. Because the audience, at least for the last 50 years, has conflated the performer with the character. Hence, ...

Setting Grandma’s Hair on Fire

Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme for these young people,” said Gov. Rick Perry in his first debate as a presidential candidate. “The idea ... that the current program is going to be there for them is a ...

Letters

Gaza: The Cold Sore of the World An excellent piece by Cole. His writing has gotten noticeably better in the 2 years or so he’s been here. Eric Gudorf Edina, Minnesota What an excellent post…..he laid this sad topic ...

Elon’s Coddled, Swaddled Nazis

To get the formalities out of the way, yes, I was perma-banned from Twitter by the “free speech” Musk regime. And I gotta say, I’d come to really like many of my followers, so please remain in touch on Substack ...

Destroying Africa to Save an Elephant’s Tail

The furor over the Trump boys"€™ African hunting safari is another sickening example of twisted leftist luminaries"€™ double standards. Never to be caught napping when an opportunity arises to ride an emotional ...

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel

A Greek Epic in the Making

With all of the news of riots and disturbances in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen it is a facile thing to overlook another global hotspot. (Not Chicago, though interesting things are happening there as well.) For ...

Biden to Illegals: Stop, Or we’ll Give You More Money!

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding at the heart our current immigration debate. We keep hearing about needing an "orderly process" to get the migrants into our country, "building lawful pathways," and helping ...

Direct Mail

Or, the Story Behind My Historic Battle Against Racial Hatred and Intolerance. One trick in the direct mail business is to give people a reason to send back the reply envelope for reasons other than the check.  ...

The Business of America

It's not just the students who have taken to the chaise longues with smelling salts and hankies. College faculty and administrations are emoting right along with ...


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