Via Nick Gillespie, in Reason‘s “Hit and Run” blog, we have this wonderfully subversive video brought to you by a gay New Yorker with a distinct aversion to hypocrisy: <object width=“425” ...
Do charities for older people help older people, or do they target older people for donations, and for other political reasons? Since my mother was diagnosed with dementia, my parents have had a constant stream of ...
The independence of Kosovo as a second Islamic state in the heart of Europe is now a fact. Serbia and Russia will continue to contest it, as they should, but their efforts will come to nothing, as they must. The battle for ...
I watched what was advertised as the first Democratic debate of the political season. MSNBC carried a 90-minute question and answer session wherein all eight announced Democratic candidates for President answered questions ...
Here, at last, is the Taki plan to save George W. Bush's presidency from the disaster it has been turned into by his neocon advisers. What W needs is a great big fat win which will overshadow Iraq, hog the headlines, and ...
GSTAAD—Gee whizz, couldn’t someone have told me about it 19 years ago? Did I have to read it in Toby Young’s column? Someone should be held responsible, but who? It was only two weeks ago that I discovered that ...
ON BOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—Here are some rules of the ocean: always establish the direction of the wind before undoing your flies at sea; never go to sea without more books than days you plan to be afloat; keep in mind that ...
Over at Chronicles, Scott Richert comes to the defense of Tom Piatak and, referring to my last blog, accuses me of "individualism" and of not properly understanding economics. Unfortunately, in his justification of ...
ON BOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—While the eastern islands of Greece are being whipped daily by the meltemi, the hot, strong winds that can turn sailors into zombies, the western side, or the Ionian, remains soft, green and as ...
On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to “a mushroom cloud over an American city,” The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm ...
A longer version of this article went into the Lancaster Newspapers, for which I"m a regular columnist and through which I"m now reaching about half a million readers. Despite the local popularity of my columns, ...
What are Republicans thinking of, pulling the plug, at Christmas, on GM, risking swift death for the greatest manufacturing company in American history, a strategic asset and pillar of the U.S. economy. The $14 billion ...
In his recent address to CPAC, John McCain told the audience that "I believe...in ...the steadfast defense of our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which I have defended my entire career as God-given ...
Heather Mac Donald has a nice piece on gender inequality in math and science and the New York Times's efforts to wish it all away: The New York Times is determined to show that women are discriminated against in the ...
In 1880, the myopic captain of one of America’s first polo teams was almost killed galloping headlong into his opposite number at the kamekazi start of a match in Dedham, Massachusetts. Given a telescope to gaze ...
During the height of New York City’s financial crisis in the 1970’s, President Gerald Ford had the good sense to turn down Mayor Abe Beame’s request for a federal bailout. The refusal prompted the famous ...
Some people never learn: “I don’t think the lessons of Iraq necessarily discredit liberal internationalism, or realism, or neoconservatism, or any of the many theories of U.S. engagement with the world that ...
Paul Michael Weyrich, a founding father of the New Right, has died. Eternity has stolen from us a great man. I first met Paul (he insisted on being called by his first name; once, when I addressed him as "Mr. ...
There is a developing conventional wisdom that Mitt Romney primarily appeals to and represents "economic conservatives" within the Republican coalition, a view that has not been shaken very much by the candidate's ...
Following up on Richard’s critique of Samantha Power, I had a few thoughts on Power’s proposal that the United States ought to have intervened to halt the Armenian genocide. Besides the logistical ...
Did Mike Huckabee know what he was doing when he asked an interviewer, “Don"t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” If not, then perhaps the Huckster was right when he claimed earlier ...
I went to Palm Beach about one month ago to visit Conrad and Barbara Black with other friends of theirs but was advised not to write about it until after the sentencing. As Andrew Roberts wrote in the Notebook, “It was ...
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn was arguably the first proponent of what has recently been revived under the rubric of ‘intelligent design’. Yet he doesn’t even get a walk on in ...
