Police Provoke Violence in France

Congress shall make no law…abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "€“First Amendment, US Constitution Everyone has the right to ...

Kamala Harris

The Prosecutor vs. The Felon

I see that Democrats are going with the image of Kamala Harris as a bad-ass prosecutor. Hey, wait! Maybe now they'll finally have an opportunity to mention that Donald Trump is a CONVICTED FELON. Did you know he was found ...

The Rapture for Nerds

There's the prospect, if it is a prospect, that the kids"€”and not likely us"€”will face something extremely traumatic: the Singularity! This is the postulated point in the not very distant future when we shall be ...

Obama’s War

In ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act? So it would seem. For the framers of the Constitution were precise. The ...

Budapest, Hungary

Take Pride in Prejudice

January is a time for new starts: So how about starting a new life in a new country? Before Christmas, I wrote about how Charles de Gaulle’s grandson Pierre was applying for Russian citizenship to escape the woke, ...

Is This Our America Anymore?

Buried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline: “Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants.” The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains the rage of Americans who are ...

Figures of Speech

Never mind the cesspool of toxic masculinity in the Vatican, London’s gentlemen’s clubs, and the Greek monasteries of Mount Athos. This is far worse, an insult to all women, especially lesbians, an institutional ...

The Literary Financier

The character of Sam Bankman-Fried continues to intrigue, not so much because it is remarkable in itself, but because he managed to inveigle so much money out of so many people who were supposedly sophisticated and ...

Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt

No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All the momentum across the country in the last two decades has been in the ...

Requiem for a Buckley

The first time I met Pat Buckley was in 1964 and the circumstances were rather strange. It was at the Palace hotel in Gstaad, and a few friends and I were drinking around the large piano in the grill while the pianist was ...

Staple a Green Card to Their ‘Kill the Jews’ Signs

In last week's column, we noted the popularity of Hamas terrorists with BLM representatives. This week, we'll consider the other main contingent of Hamas Boosters: foreigners, who, for reasons I can't understand, are in my ...

Michele Bachmann

Mitt’s Dilemma

Last week’s Republican debate at Ames, Iowa, and the straw poll Saturday did more than sort out the Republican field for 2012. They have given the nation a good close look at a Republican Party that no longer ...

Andy and Me

Andy Warhol was a unique American phenomenon. When his infamous diaries came out - the first best-seller purposely without an index, so fame groupies could not read about themselves in the bookstore and then not buy the ...

Letters

In Defense of Degeneracy Mr.  Goad, Your latest rant hit things pretty much bang on: assail the humorless, puritanical cretins of the left with plain speech, ribald humor and pitiless ridicule and watch them ...

Tales From the Crypto

From the horror that is Gaza to horror comedy here in the Big Bagel. Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for stealing 8 billion smackers from investors, but as he has pleaded not guilty, I suppose I have to give him the benefit ...

The Fat Women by Igor Grabar, 1904.

Gimlet’s Gold

"€œLook at the size of those women!"€ exclaimed Gimlet as four enormous ladies waddled past the window. "€œThey ought to be ashamed of themselves. You would never have seen that kind of obesity in the ...

‘Save Our Democracy’ Is the New ‘Russia Collusion’

At this point, it would save everyone time if Democrats could simply point to a policy agenda item that isn't going to save democracy -- if such a thing exists. If Republicans vote, they are killing democracy. If they ...

Confessions of a Cock-Block Columnist

It’s been said that if Frank Sinatra was at a restaurant and the scene was dead, he’d tell one of his goons to trip a waiter, just to create some amusement. Well, this election season is dead. With the two main ...

The Next Million Fentanyl Deaths are on You, New Hampshire

Do you care about fentanyl, New Hampshire? Every year, more than 400 of your fellow Granite Staters die from drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl. Nikki Haley promises to keep the fentanyl pipeline open. You can't have ...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Dostoyevsky’s Demons

The massacre in Gaza has shoved the Ukraine war aside, which is just as well for Zelensky, who canceled the election he was about to lose and has outlawed rival political parties for the duration. I recently watched an ...

Charles Murray

The Most Dangerous Conservative

The New York Times put Charles Murray on the cover of its Sunday Magazine, calling him "The Most Dangerous Conservative." That was after he co-wrote the book, The Bell Curve, which argued that different ethnic groups have, ...

Arm the Unborn

Once an ostensibly pro-life Catholic, Giuliani decided to shed such high-minded baggage to win election in New York City, and he hasn"€™t looked back since. Now Giuliani is the leader of the faction in the Republican ...

Paris, France

Paris Was Yesterday

GSTAAD—A reader’s inquiry as to why I think Paris was yesterday has me remembering times past. When did the party end? According to the point of view of many night owls, the party ended when the Queen of the Night, ...

Who Turned the Lights Out? Joe Biden

Does the radical climate change agenda know no end? Earlier this year, it was gas stoves -- and then lightbulbs. Then, a few weeks ago, President Joe Biden's administration announced much less gas cars after 2032. Even ...


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