The Empty Manger
The God we Christians adore climbed down from the pillar of fire, emerged from the burning bush, to walk among us. He didn"t, like Zeus, impersonate a swan or bull, or like Apollo a golden youth. Instead, He lay down as ...
The God we Christians adore climbed down from the pillar of fire, emerged from the burning bush, to walk among us. He didn"t, like Zeus, impersonate a swan or bull, or like Apollo a golden youth. Instead, He lay down as ...
After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day ...
Every schoolkid knows -- or used to know -- that the United States has three branches of government. At least that's what the textbooks say. But really, we have four branches of government. That's because Congress -- the ...
Though Obama “may lose control of Congress,” says columnist David Broder, he “can still storm back to win a second term in 2012.” How does Broder suggest Obama go about it? “Look back at FDR ...
While the American media climb over each other to spew out the expected tropes on racism and the misanthropic obstinacy of white people, European countries declare their intent to bolster ramparts against new ...
The Week’s Most Rustic, Fustic, and Augustic Headlines ROMA WASN’T BILKED IN A DAY Gypsies, tramps, and thieves We’d hear it from the people of the town They’d call us gypsies, tramps, and thieves But every night ...
I read with interest R. J. Stove's recent blog about new a book by Gerd Bayer, Heavy Metal Music in Britain, and I would like to add my own remarks to Mr. Devin Reid Saucier's apposite reply. As I pointed in my previous ...
More years ago than I care to remember, Burt Blumert saved my life"with the sort of advice only a born wise man could proffer. During some crisis or other, perhaps personal, perhaps political or professional"I ...
Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the "last full measure of ...
It has been quite a month for philandering. One would be mistaken for thinking Senator John Ensign's abrupt resignation was the scandal of the moment. Instead, with news of one illegitimate child and reports of similar ...
Francis subjected himself and his followers to a poverty that appalled their fellow beggars, fasting frequently and sleeping on dirt (when perfectly good piles of filthy straw were available), taking all too literally ...
With his order to effect the execution of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs, 40 miles from Islamabad, without asking permission of the government, Barack Obama made a bold and courageous decision. Its success, and the ...
“We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people” about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy ...
The media are hopping mad about Republicans referring to Kamala Harris as a "DEI hire." Here's some of the teeth-gnashing: -- ABC News: "Kamala Harris Faces Racial 'DEI' Attacks" -- NPR: "Republicans Call Kamala Harris a ...
Quelle surprise was caused in France recently when Charles de Gaulle’s grandson, Pierre, suddenly announced his intention to apply for citizenship in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Why? Because, Pierre told Russian media, ...
The Week’s Most Embering, Dismembering, and Novembering Headlines OCTOBER SURPRISE? MORE LIKE OCTOBER COW-PIES Americans need a refresher on the concept of “October surprise.” For some bizarre reason, the phrase has ...
Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening is not a good place to look at art because there are too many distractions. Nor is it is a good place to talk of art because you ...
Donald Trump is indignant that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would dare run for president when he KNOWS Trump is running. According to the former president and big baby, this is a betrayal of epic proportions because Trump ...
The Week’s Iciest, Diciest, and Pumpkin Spiciest Headlines NO RHYME OR REASON How ironic that a dispute between black and white is taking place in Green. Green, Ohio (94 percent white, 1.4 percent black), where two ...
"This is our country, our land, and our lifestyle. If you are not happy"then Leave." At last a politician in possession of testicles and a backbone. By definition then, not possibly a British parliamentarian. ...
"They"re racist and they"ll kick your head in," a white man named Paul warned me outside a convenience store in Burnley. He"d heard I was starting basic training the next day. I"d been buying a few ...
Another of the media's enforcers of Acceptable Opinion was unleashed the other day, this one at the Huffington Post. There Sam Stein exposed the terrible extremists—including Tom Woods, Charles Goyette, and Thomas ...
Having already received several frantic notes about Taki's comments concerning Israel's campaign against armed Hamas members and other targets in the Gaza region, perhaps I should go public before these mounting inquiries ...
Dear Delphi, Will I survive being a middle-aged white male? I turn 47 in March. I have been married 23 years and have four kids. During the course of the past year, I have watched myself do more insane things than ever in ...
