It’s Their War, Not Ours

Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two. What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, ...

In Search of Right-Wing Gonzo

or Why Culture11 Sucked So Bad. Bob Barr was eating a chocolate-dipped soft-serve ice cream cone from Dairy Queen. I was driving him to Raleigh-Durham International Airport after his appearance at the North Carolina ...

A Sorry State

A well-dressed gentleman in New York today looks like a shadowy figure in a sepia-colored old photograph. I’ve been here for two weeks and have yet to see anyone wearing a suit and tie, except when I passed a window and ...

If It Saves Just One Life…

Whatever inalienable right or God-given freedom you are born with that the Democrat Left seeks to diminish or strip from you altogether on the pretext of safety or security, via laws, regulations, or executive orders, they ...

The Hollow Men: Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris

Instead of a terrifying and interesting storm of doubt, my ship of faith only encountered in these "new atheists'" books a few annoying water balloons. The sales of Dawkins, Hitchen and Harris might be red hot, but their ...

Has the Backlash Arrived for Police-Bashing?

Within hours of Saturday's shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio were on-site. Brooklyn Borough President ...

An Unpatriotic Conservative

When FOX News host Glenn Beck said during an interview with Katie Couric this week, "€œJohn McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama,"€ his comments made headlines. Beck explained that "€œMcCain ...

Fighting Woke

People hate Chris Rufo. "Your agenda to turn our campus into a space of extremist indoctrination is harming our enrollment!" shouts a student at Florida's New College. "You are the problem!" "I'm not the problem," Rufo ...

A Secret Garden

One of my few remaining ambitions is to catalog my library—if that is not too grand a word for my accumulation of books. Certainly, I have known municipal libraries with fewer volumes, especially now as they can’t wait ...

Zachary Mason and the Legacy of Borges

In synopsis, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, a lapidary first work of fiction by Silicon Valley computer scientist Zachary Mason, sounds like an overly clever postmodern literary jest. This elegant collection of very short ...

America: An Empire?

Is America an empire? Are empires always evil? Are Americans suited to the job of creating a empire--evil or otherwise? First, it's essential to examine the notion of Empire itself, beginning with the first in the West--the ...

Birthday With Sir Bob

CORONIS—Trafficking in enchantment, I sailed west to Coronis, the most perfect private isle on this planet. At times I think I’m in the realm of fantasy, such is the beauty of the place, the perfection of its function, ...

China Downgrades US Debt

China’s rating agency has just downgraded the US credit rating from A+ to A, citing America’s inability to reduce its deficit by four trillion dollars over five years. A $4-trillion reduction is far more than the ...

Alex Jones

Alex Jones: Man of the State

With Alex Jones on a moany-moan “goodbye cruel world” tour, I thought I’d devote a couple of columns to that carbuncle on the ass of the internet as he faces the potential loss of his empire to pay off a civil ...

Ireland

Get Your Irish Up

“I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid.” This quip from noted orator and alleged President of the USA, Joe Biden, is one of a series of ethnicities and backgrounds for a man who increasingly physically resembles one of ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Blazing, Crazing, and Dog-Dazing Headlines JUDGE FUDGE 1992’s The Distinguished Gentleman starred Eddie Murphy as a jive-talkin’ brutha who impersonates a deceased congressman, and 2003’s Head of ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Arboreal, Raptorial, and Day-of-Memorial Headlines EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FUROR It’s been widely reported that when Jimmy Carter was running for reelection, he told his advisers, “If I get in, I’m ...

It’s All About Race

Blanket charges of racism have become the stock-in-trade of the liberal media in reporting on Town-Hall protesters. For converging to petition their representatives about the administration's profligate policies, ...

Pacific Overtures

Under discussion: The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters, Richard Bernstein, Knopf (2009), 336 pages. It's no secret that Asian women and white men seem to have a good deal of mutual attraction to one ...

Portrait of Francisco D'Andrade in the title role by Max Slevogt, 1912

Spectator Sports

“I was 12 when I first got laid.” “Where was that?” “In Middlesbrough.” “How the hell did you get lucky at 12 in Middlesbrough, when I only managed it at 15 and on my father’s boat off Cannes in 1952?” ...

Is Social Conservatism Necessary?

The voices of conventional wisdom are telling us once again that the Right should reinvent itself, or rather return to its true principles, by abandoning the social issues. Dwight Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater got along ...

We’ll Get to Your Country Later

After House Republicans demanded a border bill in exchange for Ukraine funding, guess which one was intentionally tanked? Pro-open-borders Republicans like Sens. Mitch McConnell, James Lankford and Lindsey Graham teamed up ...


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