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 ...
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 Blackwater affair has all the clichéd elements of Hollywood conspiracy "thrillers": an atrocity cover-up, a right-wing Christian villain at the helm of a powerful corporation, assassinations, and illicit sex. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Speaking with a friend who is Jewish—arguing, rather—I reminded him that protesting against the death of innocents is hardly anti-Semitic. He agreed. And yet the death of 37,000 Palestinian noncombatants that have ...
You think I enjoy talking about Hitler? Like, I have some bizarre fetish for the guy? Believe me, it annoys me as much as it does you. I’m fatigued by it. But, for better or worse (spoiler: worse), we’re neck-deep in ...
I don't see how you could want any more conclusive evidence that U.S. immigration policy is just a farm system for future Democratic ...
It's often hard to keep our Mexican atrocities straight, but would you happen to remember the 43 Mexican students in Iguala who disappeared off a bus in September 2014? At the time, there were claims that local police had ...
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. ...
Always, lurking behind the geostrategic scenery of the modern world, always there are the ...
Dear Delphi, The other day I was in the airport and became an unlucky recipient of the enhanced pat-down procedure; they touched my breasts and inside my legs, looking for bombs. I feel it is a total violation of my ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I've just finished reading the hilariously terrible book What's Left Unsaid by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (New York) that is so unself-aware, so arrogant, so embarrassing that I have to review ...
