Avoiding Temptation
Paul Gottfried reminds us that Obama was recently awash in the praise of Republicans who have now turned on him ferociously. He also writes: There were of course critics of Obama on the right, but these were not the ...
Paul Gottfried reminds us that Obama was recently awash in the praise of Republicans who have now turned on him ferociously. He also writes: There were of course critics of Obama on the right, but these were not the ...
Nothing sensible ever gets done by the federal ...
One wonders what John Zmirak will dream of as jet engines humming incandescently waft him through the Atlantic night on his first pilgrimage to Rome. In the aftermath of jet liners truncating Manhattan’s image of ...
Since it was being put to work as such wonderful agitprop for the Ziocons, aka the “neocons”, I had assumed that “the clash of civilizations” mania springing from Harvard Professor Samuel ...
This Arab-Israel thing is a permanent feature of the world. It will just go on for ever, like the weather. What's the point of talking about ...
Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world. U.S. War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned The Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded ...
Founded by Pat Buchanan, Washington, DC based group The American Cause held a conference at the National Press Club over the weekend called "Immigration and the Future of the Republican Party." Speakers included ...
Cape Town in December isn"t South Africa or even Africa. It resonates deeply with sophistication, void of boring locals. The restaurants are world class, accompanied by some of the finest wine lists in the ...
“Shame on you, Barack Obama!” Hillary Clinton has angrily declared in response to some hostile campaign mail on health care and NAFTA his campaign sent out against her. And then there was that picture a campaign ...
What, in the name of all that’s holy, is anyone doing up at 5:28 am? At this ungodly hour, one can only be up to no good. Unless you’re over 50, like me, in which case it’s simply old age: with the sand in ...
The St. Patrick's Day parade is split in New York City, as in many others, between the traditional parade sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and an "inclusive" march which was created to include homosexual ...
Kissinger has had a lousy rap about the greatest foreign policy disaster of American history. For starters, he had nothing to do with it. Wolfowitz and Feith convinced Cheney who convinced W. When Kissinger was brought in ...
The myth of the “objective journalist” is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche that we wince whenever we see a headline or a news story that seems to take a side. In other countries, however, ...
As everyone who has read Goethe or Schiller knows, Schadenfreude is the tendency to maliciously enjoy others’ misfortunes. Although I hate to say so myself, my one virtue is that I do not indulge in this brilliantly ...
Robert Novak might not be able to distinguish Thomas Fleming from Thomas Fleming (as the howler in his latest book shows), and he might benefit from a remedial course in journalistic ethics (as the Valerie Plame outing, ...
Of my homosexual friends and acquaintances, none of them behave like uber-gay Bruno. That said, I have met or seen the occasional homosexual man who does behave in the same over-the-top, ridiculous manner as Bruno, and they ...
For most sensible people, the latest National Intelligence Estimate contained a great deal of good news. Iran seems to have shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003 due to international pressure and hasn’t ...
The current black Democratic candidate for the presidency, Senator Obama of Illinois, belongs to a black church in Chicago that is openly and emphatically hostile to my race (and to Obama's white mother). As far as I can ...
Having seen "American Carol" on the basis of James Hirsen's glowing review on Newsmax I am still reacting to this flick's neoconservative message with a queasy stomach. From my exposure to this movie that David ...
Okay, so it isn’t morning—however, if you’re a Taki-con, like me—defined as someone who parties ‘til dawn, and then goes to morning confession—there is no morning. In any case, ...
It's been a delightful summer for the paleocon contingent here in Greenwich Village " which I am happy (and amazed) to report isn"t comprised solely of me " for indeed, the honorable thrill of patriotism has ...
If you believe The Truth is Out There, then I highly recommend that you avoid the latest “X-Files” movie , stay in, and read Tom Piatak’s fantastic article on the conservative impulses in the original ...
One of my favorite living essayists (let’s face it, few of them really measure up to the dead) is Thomas Sowell—who once or twice a year lets himself off the hook and instead of composing a column, pens a series ...
Left undistorted by government, our libertarian friends tell us, the market will always work out to the advantage of all. Those of us who express doubts are routinely derided as “statists” or ...
