Ken Salazar

Drilling Ken Salazar

After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s words mean anything anymore? While President Obama promotes offshore drilling overseas ...

Ron DeSantis

The Governor Principle

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord–he wants Milan, and so do I. —Charles V (d. 1558), Holy Roman Emperor As attention turns to the future presidential election in 2024, it might be time for conservatives to ...

Sonia Sotomayor and Vice President Joe Biden

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Supping, Cupping, and Surf’s-Upping Headlines ALOUWITLESS, GENTILE ALOUWITLESS The French word for “wave” is “vague,” from the Latin vagus, which means “uncertain” and “wandering.” And ...

Anthony Bass, 2011.

Welcome to Major League Baseball’s Struggle Sessions

The Toronto Blue Jays' Anthony Bass is really sorry. You see, Major League Baseball teams like the Dodgers will honor men in nun costumes who hand out condoms and simulate sex on crosses -- that's just "inclusivity." ...

My Superjumbo Bad Time on the A380

My first practical observation about the A380 Superjumbo: It isn"€™t all that big. Once you get inside it and have crouched your way claustrophobically through the economy-class cabin toward seat 89F, you soon realize ...

A Kept Man

It didn’t take the Israel lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Obama discovered that a mere American ...

Cheney Converts to Islam

Dick Cheney has kept his faith a private matter, choosing not to reveal it to President Bush, a sincere Christian who has vowed to read the entire Bible someday, just as soon as he finishes My Pet Goat. But it has led to ...

Get the Message?

Perhaps I am more sensitive to them than I once was, but it seems to me that hectoring and badgering semi-political public messages (mostly paid for at public expense, of course) are much more prominent than they used to ...

Alexander McQueen

Objets d′Art: Nothing More Than Objets

I usually go to art shows to look at fashion, but last week I went to a fashion show to look at art. The actress Chloë Sevigny held her first runway show for Opening Ceremony in a SoHo church rec hall, and she brought in ...

Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Paint It Black

I don’t know about you, but whenever I find myself looking at a sublime old landscape painting, like those of JMW Turner or Samuel Palmer, I often find myself thinking: “Hmm. Well, it’s quite good, but what this ...

Arizona is No Laughing Matter

As is common knowledge now, on April 23 Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country. Senate Bill 1070 “make[s] attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state ...

Naked Men in National Museums

What in the name of Gilbert Stuart is going on at the National Portrait Gallery? A week ago, CNSNews’ Penny Starr reignited the culture war with an arresting story about the staid old museum that began ...

Thomas Bernhard

Bernhard the Happy Nihilist

"€œYou must come visit us in Vienna,"€ said Mrs H. as we lunched at Cecconi's in Miami Beach. "€œOh, Vienna, yes, I"€™ve been thinking of Vienna recently,"€ I answered, "€œbecause I"€™ve been reading Thomas ...

Memorial Hall, Harvard University

Balderdash U d/b/a Harvard University

If Harvard were renamed Balderdash U, it might be forgiven for what at least two of its spokesmen wrote following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Harvard’s affirmative action violates the 14th Amendment. The ...

It’s Not Your Father’s Pot Anymore

Remember all those great ideas George Soros had about crime and open borders? Guess what the spawn of Satan, whose every idea is designed to increase human misery, is pushing now? Legal weed. Switching out Americans for ...

United States vs. England

When Buchanan dared to ask who would assimilate better, a million Englishmen or a million Zulus, the Left pooped their pants. I still don"€™t understand why. What really should have browned their trousers was the fact ...

The Vatican Space Program

The Assumption is not something invented by Pope Pius XII in 1950, the year when he infallibly declared it a dogma of the Catholic Church. Nor was he introducing some pious innovation to the core of the Catholic faith, ...

Statue of Churchill, Parliament Square, London

Why So Churlish About Churchill?

The recent news that the website of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London contained a derogatory description of Sir Winston Churchill, whose state funeral the building had held following the great man’s death in 1965, caused a ...

The Murderers of Christianity

Sunday, on the eve of All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1, 2010, the faithful gathered at the Assyrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad. As Father Wassim Sabih finished the mass, eight al-Qaida stormed in, ...

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democratic Dawn—or Darkness?

“Right now, socially, we are disintegrating.” So says Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential candidate for president of Egypt. Indeed, post-revolutionary Egypt ...

President Biden

Will Midterms Be Biden’s Last Hurrah?

For half a decade now, America's media elite have been obsessed with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party's conversion to Trumpism. Press and TV are daily consumed with his actions and prospects and the ...

Querying the Homintern

Anti-discrimination ordinances attempting to legislate "€œtolerance"€ for homosexuals are about as effective as the 1964 Civil Rights Act was in eliminating racism "€“ i.e. not at all. This whole "€œgay ...

New Pugs Club Member?

Our cleaning lady in France brings her dog with her. The dog has been a great solace to her during a difficult stage in her life. She bought her from a breeder who used her as a mother of puppies, but since she (the dog) ...

The Food Insecurity Lie

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans "suffer from food insecurity!" News anchors were shocked that there is "food insecurity in the richest country in the world!" ABC hosts turned "insecurity" into "hunger." But ...


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