It’s Not About Fentanyl
The good news is, Republicans are finally willing to criticize immigration! The bad news is, it's only to say they are against Americans dying from fentanyl. So proud of you, GOP! For example, at the debate last week, ...
The good news is, Republicans are finally willing to criticize immigration! The bad news is, it's only to say they are against Americans dying from fentanyl. So proud of you, GOP! For example, at the debate last week, ...
Ukraine has known much darkness. And the long, sinister night of the twentieth century continues to cast shadows deep and wide. At this unique university, however, God's light shines brightly, showing how wonderful that ...
I don't think you have a healthy society if it doesn't include some rebellion against bourgeois ...
I read somewhere that Saint Kitts and Nevis, thriving democracies somewhere south of Miami Beach, are demanding reparations from the Brits because the bad old English owned slaves back at the time when owning black people ...
In a syndicated column that was something less than objective, Matt Towery explains that “Romney has the most going for him in 2012.” According to Towery, “when staunch Republicans start considering the big ...
Recently, I read a splendid book, titled Homo cretinus, by the French science journalist and writer Olivier Postel-Vinay, on the subject of human stupidity, a subject as perpetually amusing as murder, and eternally relevant ...
For the last few nights, before I go to sleep and when I wake up, I have watched the flies on the ceiling of my bedroom. There are about six or seven of them; there used to be far more, hundreds in fact, which I used to ...
Okay, you fans of such classics as Age of Innocence, House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome, Julian Fellowes is no Edith Wharton, but for the dregs of what’s left of society today, he’ll do. He’s a Brit, a funny little ...
Mitt Romney declared his intention last week to seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2012. Between now and next summer’s convention, he’ll trip along the Yellow Brick Road that he must imagine will ...
The World Health Organization says another pandemic of a scale similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed 675,000 in the U.S., is a statistical certainty. Unlike the current virus, which has a virtually nonexistent ...
Plus, Ben Harper's new super group, a spellbinding John Lennon biopic, and London's Fetish ...
On the whole, the cinematic world has dealt less severely with Communism than it has dealt with Nazism. The reason for this is at least twofold. The first is that many in the cinematic world were sympathetic to Communism, ...
I don’t want to come off as lacking empathy, even though I do indeed lack empathy. The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is reassuring. Not because he deserved to die. Certainly he didn’t. And not ...
Donald Trump: The First Jewish President? David Cole’s “Donald Trump the First Jewish President” touches on many if not most of the reasons the American Jewish community despises Donald Trump. But, there are ...
Dear Delphi, I am a 26-year-old boy and have a great girlfriend I really like. The problem is, I want to have some time with the boys but I can"t seem to manage. This is how the conversation usually goes: Me: "I ...
Some of our readers may be aware that the sainted editor’s wife of The Spectator is Swedish—and she has a sister—but I swear on the Koran that my story has nothing to do with it. In The Spectator only two weeks ago, ...
In a column last December, I pointed out that whenever some schizo shoots up a place, and it’s revealed that he left a trail of “red flags” behind, rightists indignantly say, “Hmmph, why wasn’t the FBI on top of ...
He’s physically repellent but writes quite elegantly, from the left, needless to say. He recently took a swipe at us dumb Christians for believing, he being Jewish and referring to our Lord Jesus as a crucified rabbi. ...
Despite recent strong runners, Sir John Major is probably the worst Conservative prime minister Britain has had in modern times. But just as a stopped clock tells the right time occasionally, he made one resonant ...
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, said Juliet, but the legislature of Illinois does not agree. It believes that the word “offender” should now be replaced by the term “justice-impacted individual.” ...
With electoral successes in Arizona and Michigan, Mitt Romney’s accession to the Republican nomination is all but concluded. Barring an unforeseen misstep the nomination is Romney’s to lose, as it has always ...
Part II Last week I wrote about my memorable-albeit-disagreeable encounter with one Daniel C. Leghorn in Bemelman's bar at New York's Carlyle hotel. It was there where, fortified by a half-dozen Manhattans, the demented ...
This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic of Korea troops were retreating toward an ...
On January 22, Sky Sports announcers Andy Gray and Richard Keys were overheard joking about female assistant referee Sian Massey. Keys said: "Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her." Gray replied: ...
