On Loving to Hate the South
The Confederate flag has become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one. Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational buildings throughout the South, while ...
The Confederate flag has become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one. Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational buildings throughout the South, while ...
Alcoholics Anonymous is no longer a fellowship of men and women, as used to be reassuringly stated at the start of every meeting. It’s now a “fellowship of people,” because AA is embracing gender ideology, attempting ...
Are the Irish racist? Do they eat potatoes, bacon, and cabbage every day, play the fiddle, and reject all change, as a controversial new school textbook put out by their government claims? I bloody hope so. As a Brit newly ...
It was nice to see Crystal Mangum, victim of the nonexistent gang rape by Duke lacrosse players in 2006, admit last week that it was all a fake-out. Many of you were happy, though bored, and moved on. But cruel people like ...
Is Marijuana Legalization a Big Government Plot? "Should it be legal? Yes. Do we want it legal? No." This counterintuitive wisdom on marijuana legalization comes from "Charlie," a colorful, sixty-something ...
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?" asked President Abraham Lincoln, who answered his own question: "Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg." And Congress' saying that D.C. is a ...
This week Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There's so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet departments, for example, like Housing and Urban Development, Labor ...
Van Jones, Obama’s “Green Czar,” finally got booted from the White House. It’s hilarious to see that the Wall Street Journal reported it as such: Van Jones, an administration official specializing ...
Not very long ago I walked into my bedroom and found The Art and Science of Love at the foot of the bed. I dwell in a typical Manhattan apartment, where any book may turn up anywhere without notice. It happens. I ...
It is not surprising that Pat Buchanan's new book, exploring the collapse of the British Empire and the connection of that disaster to England's involvement in two World Wars, should have received a strong endorsement from ...
The now-infamous confrontation between Hitchens and Father Rutler at Manhattan's Union League Club on May 1 reveals a deadly weakness in the conservative movement. It shows how carelessly and reflexively we have fallen into ...
Is Free Speech Banned in the UK? Like all governments, the British state has always endeavored to prevent potential troublemakers entering the country. And in 2005, following much criticism from the media for permitting ...
After John McCain’s defeat, even amateur political analysts could see a trend ultimately fatal to the Republican Party. Ninety percent of McCain voters were white, and 90 percent Christian. But Christians have fallen ...
Conservatism used to mean anti-statism. But today, under the rubric of neoconservatism, this has been stood on its head. It is a Bizarro World conservatism, where the individualism of Barry Goldwater and Frank S. Meyer has ...
The number of Chinese Christians in churches approved and unapproved has been increasing exponentially. Pope Benedict's ingenious response to this situation has been a kind of Kung Fu move: At once, as he refuses to concede ...
What makes this lobby especially obnoxious, and this is the one valuable series of revelations in the book, is not only its money and power. It is also the lobby's arrogance and sheer viciousness, which extends to issues ...
"Progressive London Conference": the phrase is simultaneously gruesome and narcoleptic. It hints at almost illimitable tedium, wishful thinking, a tincture of vitriol and much more than a soupcon of sanctimony. It ...
On the 15th of October, the British National Party and the government's Equality and Human Rights Commission faced each other in court in London, for a short but significant hearing that was always a foregone conclusion. ...
The United States and Russia appear to be gearing up for a second round of the Cold War. Washington still hopes to extend its reach deep into Moscow's zone of interests, and the Russians intend to resist. Most of the action ...
The Week’s Most Mingling, Singling, and Kris Kringling Headlines A DINGBAT ATE ME BABY Remember the good old days when Australians and New Zealanders were thought of as rugged individualists? And then came Covid and we ...
While you were sleeping, more women were claiming they"ve slept with Sandra Bullock's (hopefully soon-to-be ex) husband Jesse James, and although his mistress count hasn"t reached a Tiger-level of absurdity, things ...
It is now close to fifty years that karate—the art of empty hand fighting—has been popular in the West. Karate’s aim is to develop a synergism of the will, the nerves and the muscles which manifests itself ...
Computers are like women because only a fool pretends to comprehend their immense mystery and complexity. One day they"re happy (as far as one knows) helpmeets, the next they"re making disquieting noises, sending ...
On Monday, June 29, 2009 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiffs, a group of white firefighters, in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. According to the Court, New Haven, Connecticut violated Title VII of the Civil ...
