To combat Islamic terrorists more effectively, the US government should spend some real energy on image management, perhaps hiring a big Hollywood guru. Consider Maliki’s alleged insouciance. It’s good for the ...

The nationwide revelry surrounding our apparent economic recovery was disrupted this week by the release of lower-than-expected retail sales data. However, rather than sending a chill up the spines of those hoping for a ...

On Thursday 4th June, British voters went to the polls to elect 72 British members of the European Parliament. These polls were carried out simultaneously with elections to 34 English local authorities and three mayoral ...

If there are no peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for an independent Palestinian state, war next year is inevitable. So King Abdullah II of Jordan has told the London Times: “If we delay our peace ...

Just in time for the heat of the election season, a federal agency called the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced it will no longer allow betting on political and election outcomes. These online wagering ...

At a friend’s house party I found myself sitting next to an anti-vaxxer with a thriving social media profile who became drunk and started boasting. “I’m making six grand a month out of this,” he said, referring to ...

Have we ever had a president so disconnected from the heart of America? On Friday night, at a White House iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Obama strode directly into the blazing controversy over whether a mosque ...

Now that Hillary Clinton has mercifully pulled the plug on her presidential campaign, the talking heads are consumed with the idea of her accepting the vice-presidential slot. According to some polls, a majority of ...

Gstaad. A lovely liquid lunch in a mountain hut with my friend Nicola Anouilh after two hard runs. Blue skies, gentle winds, a few puffs of white cloud, and the sound of bells from the nearby cow shed. If there’s a better ...

Whether doing our best or worst, collectively we develop countless imperfect habits, customs and traditions - or “culture” - that give expression to our humanity. Usually by accident of geography, ethnicity or ...

I reported to registration to receive my official totebag, T shirt, and condoms. In the bustle, I was only able to grab three packs, but luckily, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and NARAL were handing out prophylactics ...

On the night of the U.K. general election, I was on the phone with someone working for the campaigning MP Andrew Bridgen as the first two ballot boxes were opened at his count, and, as these were being verified, I was ...

Happy news! The government has come up with a 5.9 percent GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009. The recession is over. Or is it? Statistician John Williams has informed us that 69 percent of this growth, or 4.1 ...

And part of the picture is all you really see in Woods' analysis. He attributes the notion of sovereignty to an early modern advocate of royal absolutism. And perhaps he's right about the term. But I doubt that a Roman ...

The tale of Tiger Woods and his car crash is entirely fascinating: not for the story itself, but for the story we’ve been presented with and asked to believe. The straight facts we’re asked to swallow are that ...

Disclaimer:   This is the first in a series of pieces critical of certain types of arguments that many pro-life advocates make.  My concern is that they have negative consequences for other issues and the ...

Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites. We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion -- man against the self-serving, out-of-touch ...

Challenger Joe McLaughlin was half right in describing the stakes of the North Carolina 3rd Congressional District’s Republican primary: It was, as he told Congressional Quarterly, about the future of the Republican ...

Is the Surge working"€”really? Sure, it's working fine, just like my sister's car. I had to drop her off at the garage where they were looking over her Ford Probe. It"€™d been overheating since she bought it, and there ...

Baby, it's hot outside. Right on cue, a New York Times headline links this surge in temperatures to "climate change." Temperatures have climbed to well over 100 F in Las Vegas, Arizona, much of Texas, and New Mexico in ...

Children can sometimes be very cruel—but also very inventive. When I was a schoolboy myself during the 1990s, there was a performatively “suicidal” girl who constantly used to make millimeter-deep scratches in her ...

When is winning an election also simultaneously to lose it? According to most pundits, this week’s July 4 General Election here in the U.K. is due to be a complete Labour landslide, with polls frequently predicting the ...

We all know that math scores have been scandalously trending downward for many years, but the folks in the government should at least be able to count. We're finding more and more evidence that the statistics the ...

The ultimate outcome of Islam's civilizational wars has already been determined. Radical Islam is not a viable paradigm upon which a modern society can be built. It is destined, like communism before it, to collapse from ...