Whatever Happened to David Horowitz?

Whatever happened to David Horowitz—the ex-leftist -turned-neocon whose hysterical maunderings are practically emblematic of the species and who used to make quite a bit of noise as a kind of right-wing Bizarro World ...

Happy Birthday, Radio Derb!

I tell you, listeners, with so many shady characters in the world, it's good to know there are still people you can ...

Astroturf

It was wicked when assorted neoconservative organs and tools presented antiwar activists such as Cindy Sheehan as something other than what they were. And it is still execrable now that the left-liberal news filters are ...

Rear-View Mirror Conservatism

Rear-view Mirror Conservatism We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.  We march backwards into the future.                       ...

Is America Serious?

Are we at war—or not? For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the ...

The Swine Are Loose

Whether they are armed with bombs or bacteria, stopping weaponized individuals from harming others"€”intentionally or unintentionally"€”falls perfectly within the purview of the "€œnight-watchman state of ...

Michel de Nostredame

Propheting From Disaster

With the recent 80th-anniversary celebrations of D-Day, it seems an appropriate time for us all to ask ourselves, when will World War III begin? As soon as 18 June, apparently. So says Kushal Kumar, an Indian Vedic ...

Arizona: All About the Votes

My tailor is just one shade lighter than Obama. He is from the Dominican Republic, and speaks Spanish most of the time when he’s not speaking to me. He’s a hard-working, legal immigrant who loves baseball, ...

Culture Snores

The webzine Culture11 officially closed up shop last week, ending a four month run as the web's alternative conservative destination.  Late last summer, I first heard rumors that there was a new well-funded ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Reasoning, Treasoning, and Hurricane-Seasoning Headlines UGH In 2020 a 32-year-old Injun went missing in British Columbia. Sidney Mantee couldn’t be found anywhere (“Man-Tee” is his tribal name due ...

Jason Caffey’s Genes

Jason Caffey seems to have won the Darwinian lottery of life. In two ways in fact. The first is that Jason Caffey won in his own inheritance of genes. Genes good enough (allied with a great deal of sweat and effort of ...

Goldman Sachs Turned The Greeks Into Crooks

Bravo Goldman Sachs. You’ve done it again. As in the U.S. subprime crisis,  this house of ill repute created a deal which helped the Greeks obscure billions in debt from the budget overseers, then charged the Greeks ...

Rent-A-Jew! The Weird World of Minorities for Hire

As my basement human-sacrifice room has been looking a little dingy of late and putting off the rest of the coven, I was recently in need of the services of some professional painters and decorators to cover up and dispel ...

Consumer Kids and Their Plastic Lives

I went to Bath & Body Works at the mall one morning just before the Christmas shopping season. There I was, an adult with a good job and a career, and I was scrounging for sales and coupons so that I could spend $10 and ...

How CVS Invaded My Brain

NEW YORK"€”There's some guy at the world headquarters of CVS drugstores screwing with me. I don"€™t know who he is yet, but he lives in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This is where CVS Health, the largest drugstore chainin ...

The Recovery That Isn”€™t

For those market boosters who are prattling on about the possibility of a “jobless recovery,” I offer an invitation to join me for a breakfast of “fat-free bacon,” “eggless omelets,” and ...

A Bridge Too Far”€”Turkey & Europe

The ongoing attempt by Europe's present sorry crop of leaders to permit Turkey to join the European Union is almost incomprehensibly irresponsible. Even the briefest examination of what Turkish accession would entail for ...

Grover Norquist vs. Walter Jones

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently went down to North Carolina to campaign against Walter Jones. Jones is one of the strongest conservative leaders in Congress when it comes to issues such as ...

City Hall, New York City

Life Among the Nomenklatura

But don't you dare call it "privilege." In this racist society of ours, only white people have ...

The End of an Error

Under Bush, the conservative movement became what it is - a mere tool of the Republican Party. In the past, there were many on the Right who wrote books, promoted philosophies and endorsed policies they hoped might ...

The Burning Babe

To celebrate this holy day, we are posting two meditations on the Incarnation by the Jesuit poet and martyr Robert Southwell. Blessings upon all our readers in this Christmas ...

Heartbreak Hotel

In 1935, British journalist James Agate admitted to obsession with a juicy but fundamentally parochial murder case, while from Quetta"€”now in Pakistan, then in the Raj"€”came news of a quake which had left 20,000 dead. ...

The Standard at Sea

This morning, a bottle hit the Manhattan island shore, containing a rather distressing log from The Weekly Standard‘s annual Caribbean Cruise. It seems that things have gone terribly awry aboard the dreadnaught HMS ...


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