Red & Green
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 ...
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 ...
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 Week’s Most Leary, Dreary, and New Yeary Headlines INMATE, OUTMATE Biden concluded 2024 by commuting the sentences of every federal death row inmate, including child-killers and mass murderers. He left only three ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Everybody and his dog is writing about the Trump conviction, so I guess I’ll add my few grains to the sand pile. Otherwise I’d kill something, preferably a New York judge. Or several of them. On the observable ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Left is angry because the Supreme Court ruled race-based affirmative action unconstitutional. President Joe Biden says he "strongly disagrees." But Chief Justice John Roberts was right to say, "Eliminating racial ...
I'm not sure the Central Park Five really want a civil trial on what happened the night of April 19, 1989, but by suing Donald Trump for defamation, that's what they're going to get. The alleged defamation was Trump's ...
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 ...
