The Bad Old Days
Having just seen the film Julie and Julia, based on a book by Julie Powell and a screen play by Nora Ephron, I"ve certain unanswered questions about some of the historical details that went into the plot. Of the two ...
Having just seen the film Julie and Julia, based on a book by Julie Powell and a screen play by Nora Ephron, I"ve certain unanswered questions about some of the historical details that went into the plot. Of the two ...
If the National Enquirer is to be believed, John Edwards is the father of Frances, the baby born to Rielle Hunter back in February "08. The Enquirer is not, of course, everyone’s first choice for sound and ...
Word out of the White House is that President Joe Biden wants to tout his economic successes. He's even embracing the slogan "Bidenomics" -- which most people think is a term of as a term of derision and policy flops. On ...
It might have come as a relief for proponents of constitutional government, then, to see Bush return to Texas. It might have, but it didn"t. The electoral defeat of the Republican Party in 2008, after all, meant the ...
No, you don’t have to be clever or intelligent to either get or be rich. Some achieve great wealth via the Lucky Sperm Club, others through just being in the right place at the right time. Michael Jordan, for example, ...
Gstaad. It was a balmy June day, Pentecoste Sunday, a major holiday in France. The Casino de la Corniche was a chic and popular establishment on a rocky spur between Saint-Eugene and Pointe Pescade. The beach was the finest ...
It seems the national commentariat is obsessed with the subject of torture, and there is talk of a "truth commission" to investigate and hold the Bushies accountable, up to and including The Decider himself. This is ...
Isn’t charity the best? The Season of Giving just finished giving itself to us and every year the message becomes clearer and clearer: Charity is the best feeling in the world. What charity you ask? Who cares? ...
During the Cold War, conservatives rightly pointed out that the collectivist materialism of the Soviet Union was anti-human in the worst ways. It elevated the state to mythic proportions. It denied the value of ...
The Week’s Most Herky, Jerky, and Buy-That-Frozen-Turkey Headlines FAMIRY FEUD Dog trainers have long abandoned the tradition of smacking misbehaving pups on the schnoz with a rolled-up newspaper, because the state of ...
Our view of what kind of nation we are is related to the question of “nationalism.” Are we a normal nation? A “creedal” nation? An “exceptional” nation? For many on the ...
Other than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party insurgents who routed establishment ...
Ohio State University's law school recently held a symposium marking Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fifteen years on the United States Supreme Court. Precisely why this milestone merited such treatment is hard to determine: like ...
I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money. I don’t want a Republican to be funny. I ...
Did you eat a lot of chocolate for Easter last weekend? If so, did your choice of which particular color of candy egg to swallow say something deeply significant about you as a person? Personally, I tend to prefer white ...
Don’t Suspect a Friend, Report Him! As most of us know, Kansas City, Missouri is a haven for international and domestic terrorists. Pakistan and Afghanistan are small potatoes compared to this insurgency stomping ...
At the time I came to this country in 1948, baseball was unrivaled by other sports, and it seemed to my 11-year-old self to be at the very center of American life. I remember it well, staying at the Plaza Hotel on Fifth ...
"Live for the here..." That was the unsolicited advice proffered by an aged Beat poet to a restaurant diner at a nearby table who would not leave his cell phone alone. A cigar for the poet. Because far from being ...
"Never heard of you...". What generosity of spirit. Some thirteen years ago now, the fellow had marched across a busy airport departure hall in order to deliver his crushing verdict. He entered the ...
No conservative or libertarian can possibly contemplate voting for either of the "major" party candidates, this time around, on several grounds, the most conspicuous being their intractable and almost instinctive ...
The GDP numbers out yesterday, which showed economic growth at 3.5% in the third quarter, brought a deafening chorus from public and private economists who all agreed that the recession is officially over. With such a ...
After our most recent Republican president took unprecedented liberties with the executive branch, and after the current Democratic president has promised central planning, some state lawmakers have decided to take their ...
I"ve avoided reading, let alone commenting on, the various post-election analyses of "where is conservatism headed?" or "what went wrong?" symposiums, because in my old age I"m becoming more ...
During my book party one month ago—rather surprisingly, the thing is selling well—I spotted Ferdinand Mount in the crowd and asked him to meet a friend of mine. Ferdie recognized the name immediately. “You ...
