Last Chance for Life
Near the end of a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pa., a woman arose to offer a passionate plea to Barack Obama to “stop these abortions.” Obama’s response was cool, direct, unequivocal. “Look, ...
Near the end of a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pa., a woman arose to offer a passionate plea to Barack Obama to “stop these abortions.” Obama’s response was cool, direct, unequivocal. “Look, ...
There is no one better than Orwell, especially in his masterwork, 1984. He saw our future well in advance. It appears that once-great Britain will soon start jailing people for making “homophobic” comments. This ...
Rather as God cares about every sparrow that falls to earth, no crisis anywhere escapes the attention of the U.S. government. So it has been with the Russo-Georgian war. Words continue to flood forth from ...
If they"re any good, superhero movies speak to something larger than just kicking, flying, punching, and rescuing: Batman strikes a nerve as the vigilante, perhaps motivated by revenge, who is attacked by the very ...
1,193,480—that’s the number of Iraqis murdered by the neocons to date. From Just Foreign Policy: ”[A] study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had ...
”Home to Houston,” one of the great antiwar tracks on country rocker Steve Earle’s album The Revolution Starts Now, tells the story of a soldier stationed in Basra who day after day drives a supply truck ...
Will the neocons who tutored George W. Bush in the ideology he pursued to the ruin of his presidency do the same for Sarah Palin? Should they succeed, they will destroy ...
Sen. John McCain is facing questions about his close ties to Rev. John Hagee (pictured here with McCain, whom he has endorsed for President). Hagee is leader of the controversial <embed ...
A great deal of ink has been spilled over the last month about the proximate causes of the fighting in the Caucasus. Abkhaz, Georgians, Ossetians and Russians have all presented conflicting accounts of who fired ...
What's the Puerto Rican for ...
Recently I"ve come across two statements that have evoked radically different public reactions. One is by a Minnesota Republican congresswoman, Michelle Bachmann, who told Chris Matthews on his TV program that Obama ...
Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media. Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them. Consider the fawning indulgence shown ...
How did it come to pass that the "conservative" position on foreign policy involves proclaiming the virtue of revolutionary upheaval around the world, worrying that the survival at freedom at home depends on the ...
James Kirchick's putative exposé of Ron Paul " in which the reader is led to conclude that the 10-term congressman is an "angry white male" and "filled with hate" " has been released online, and ...
Life is full of coincidences so fortuitous that it is hard to believe that they are simply random. Yesterday, as Taki's Top Drawer published the final installment of my "Thoughts on the Antichrist," one of the ...
Can I say "Black Sea"? Perhaps it's racist. Let me just consult the Radio Derb style book. One can never be too careful nowadays ...
Returning to something Leon Hadar said in the comments of one of my posts on ethnonationalism, I wanted to expand on his observation that Muller conflated categories of ethnic groups with other communal identities, ...
Sam Brownback is out, but he’s not down. In a move clearly calculated to maintain his viability as a vice-presidential candidate, he met with Rudy Giuliani on Thursday in Brownback’s Senate office. As ...
A busy week here in Rome. In one week, I’ve been privileged to venerate: the bones of St. Agnes, relics of the Passion (the True Cross, the scourging post, nails and Crown of Thorns), the Sacred Steps from the palace ...
O to be in England! Last week it was Muslim staff at Sainbury’s refusing to sell alcohol because it offended their religious sensibilities. (Sainsbury’s is the largest super market in that dreary old ...
Leave it to John McCain to make Barack Obama appear to have the steady, sane foreign policy. With the Albanians’ declaration of independence in Kosovo, the retirement of Fidel Castro and the recent repudiation of ...
Last Thursday’s Iowa caucus shook up both parties. I won"t try to suss out what's happening among the Democrats "except to note that the only candidates opposed to our occupation of Iraq, Biden, Kucinich, and ...
They came up with a person named Jennifer Lopez, who, they told me, was famous for her ...
Young Americans for Liberty is the continuation of the Students for Ron Paul organization which had established chapters nationwide during the election. While many if not most American youth remain sympathetic to Obama, ...
