In the eyes of today's "conservative" American Catholics (not to mention evangelical Christians), the Christian populations of the Middle East"the oldest continuing Christian communities in the world"are simply ...
The debate over Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court has generated millions of words but nearly all of it comes down to two opposing positions. On one side are defenders of legal neutrality"it's the law, ...
I want to shake up the stodgy world of so-called ‘conservative’ opinion. For the past ten years at least, the conservative movement has been dominated by a bunch of pudgy, pasty-faced kids in bow-ties and blue blazers ...
Just in case you hadn"t noticed, ladies, you are being oppressed, exploited, abused, beaten, enslaved, murdered and raped. This evil is being perpetrated by the patriarchy, and Barack Obama is part of it. Oh, also ...
A long-lived creature from Mars, who had paid the earth visits over several centuries, would be very much struck by modern man’s thirst for, or indifference to, ugliness. He, she, or it would have noticed that, precisely ...
Be it the "public option" (that"ll eliminate all other options), the co-opting "co-op," or the make-believe market that is the "insurance exchange": if implemented, these euphemisms for centrally ...
Ron Rosenbaum, journalist (the New York Observer, Slate.com), author, and one of the few liberals to sign on to the ill-fated Pajamas Media fiasco, is damned mad: Will all the pundits who relied on the discredited 2007 NIE ...
With its decision in Nordyke v. King last week, in which the recent Supreme Court Heller decision was applied to state law, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took another step down the long road of ...
By now, we all know the CW-like drama of Coco, The Chin, and The Peacock. It's hard to think of a time when late night comedy has attracted more attention, and Conan O"Brien, in particular, was funnier then ...
No, we've never seen a war we didn't like, the torture and the raping and the dead. But don't ask us to be in it, 'cause we'll be gone in just a minute, and no one will know exactly where we've ...
Can Americans today really sleep safely in their own beds at night? Not with so many militant homosexuals wandering around. In late August, the media revealed that a highly qualified lady (she’s brown, left-wing, female, ...
Poor little Jamie Kirchick: it can’t be easy being a known lickspittle and liar. This Norman Podhoretz-wannabe is stamping his foot and having a real hissy fit over The American Conservative‘s endorsement of Ron ...
No matter how you rearrange President Obama’s inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza. Ready for the latest topping on this moldy old pie? It’s a possible chief of ...
MISSING: global recession, 6 billion careless owners. No, really, why do I see thousands of people milling around in the shops as though the credit crunch was nothing more than an abdominal exercise machine with a built-in ...
I like FOX-News broadcaster Glenn Beck. The man exudes goodness and has a visceral feel for freedom. From this scrupulous soul I"d like to hear less about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," ...
There is no reason to suppose that this film's near-perfect depiction of nihilism exaggerates, in any way, the quotidian horror of Britain under Blair. There is every reason to suppose that, if anything, it understates such ...
Rightly or wrongly, we will be held responsible for the outcome in Palestine and for the ultimate fate of the Palestinians. In a real sense, we will be paying for it. Actually, we have been paying for it for a long time, ...
I don"t care one whit about Rudy Giuliani's private life, although I have a hard time believing the evangelicals are quite ready for the rutting Rudy. He is, after all, an Italian male, with certain impulses wired into ...
First there was "The Decider." Then came Big Man Obama. "The Decider" is the nickname George Bush gave his all-powerful self. To go by the dictionary, and "within the context of political science, big ...
When you"re losing bad on Afghanistan's plains And the critics dare to question your gains Just roll to your geology and use your brains And go to your gold like I told yer —With apologies to Rudyard Kipling Now ...
The left has a new goal: degrowth! We should "buy less stuff," forgive debts, grow our own food, etc. They say this will "build a more just and sustainable society" and "save the planet" from "climate chaos." This idea ...
Like most butchers, Muhammad Bouyeri of the Hofstad Group is not a man of many doubts. When asked why he slaughtered the Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh, he was succinct: “I was motivated by the law that commands me to ...
The media has successfully chased Palin out of politics, but that doesn"t mean she won"t become the next president. After the press clobbered Nixon out of a presidential campaign and then out of a California ...
Plus, Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom, The Bolshoi Ballet, Talking to Girls About Duran, and more culture to devour this week Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, Los Angeles Museum County of Art, ...
