John Edwards’s Baby
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When I saw video clips of the joyful toppling of statues of Bashar al-Assad, as well as the tearing from walls of his ubiquitous portrait, I wondered what it must be like to be a dictator and see images of yourself ...
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? ...
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 ...
As part of the Biden administration's push to make everything worse and more expensive, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) -- not to be confused with Congress, which writes the laws because we live in a ...
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, ...
Inasmuch as the most popular reaction to the cold-blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been to hail the shooter as a hero, I gather that Americans really hate health insurance companies. Apparently, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oh God, oh God, is there no limit to idiocy? From Yahoo News, presumably meaning news for or from yahoos: “Tom Homan, the man tapped by Mr. Trump to lead his border closures, recently told Fox News the president-elect ...
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 ...
Ooh, that smell! Can"t you smell that smell? Pew! It's the latest report from the Pew Center on the States, and it concludes that America's voter-registration system stinks. Released on Tuesday, Pew's report, titled ...
"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 ...
Have Israel and its supporters gone over the edge? As Israel defies the US on settlement policies and its continuing mistreatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a recent poll shows the American public is ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
What a relief. The demonstrations in the Islamic Republic, pursuant to the disputed election, have failed to cue the staple presidential speech we"d become accustomed to from George Bush. Barack Obama spared the ...
