When I was a child, there was a persistent playground rumor that the letters “BMW” in the German car manufacturer’s brand name secretly stood for “Black Man’s Willy,” a “willy” being an infant British slang ...

The most emotionally powerful argument John advances is that America was descended from Europe, shared in European civilization, and so could not have stood by while Europe was subjected to either German or Soviet ...

One of my favorite things to learn about Sarah Palin was her ties to the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants their state to secede from the United States. Said the group’s late founder Joe Vogler “The ...

“Don’t you remember 9/11 asked a called at WTMA, who could have been anyone on any given day since the Iraq war began who’s has asked the same question countless times. “I certainly do remember 9/11, ...

Made your plans for the upcoming financial Armageddon yet? Betting upon a second Great Depression, or are you like me and thinking that yes, we've got some tough times coming, but the only people that can create disaster ...

When Andrew Sullivan jumped on the Ron Paul bandwagon, I didn’t mind all that much. After all, the more the merrier. It was all—supposedly—part of his sudden conversion to antiwar, anti-interventionist ...

Next time any of you feel nostalgic for the old continent, keep the following in mind. Christmas should be downgraded in favor of festivals from other religions in order to improve race relations, says an explosive British ...

Are GOP partisans as dumb as they seem? My answer to this query is "€œat least as dumb as turkeys, the mouths of which have to be shut when it rains, lest they swallow too much water and drown."€ How else does one ...

Well, no, not really.  Babar Ahmad is a British Muslim who ran jihadist websites that raised money for radical Muslims fighting in Chechnya and Afghanistan.  He’s currently being held in England, awaiting ...

I see Andrew Sullivan, inspired by Daniel Larison, has decided to issue his own list of “lessons I’ve learned from the Iraq debacle,” and being that he’s one of the chief culprits outside the ...

The latest white supremacist outrage concerns shoppers, so far only in New York ...

When you’re rebuilding something from the rubble, it pays to listen to men who have experience doing just that. Men like Wilhelm Röpke,whose books helped construct a viable centrist Right for post-war Germany, and ...

FOXNews actually allowed Ron Paul to take part in last night’s debate, and his presence was even acknowledged by many of the candidates"€”if only as a foil to set off their “patriotism.” (And being that ...

Reading reviews in the national press about Norman Podhoretz's The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism (Doubleday), I was struck by how oblivious to certain facts the reviewers of this book seem to be. Haven"€™t Ian ...

So now it seems that the critical Pennsylvania Democratic primary hinges on, of all things, the Catholic vote. As the AP reports: Understanding Pennsylvania’s rich Catholic tradition and responding to it is an article ...

Um, one hardly knows how to respond to Scott’s blog, which touts me—in the spirit of jest, one hopes—as one of the Premier Attractions of the upcoming meeting of the John Randolph Club, in Washington, D.C. ...

Here is the text of a speech I just gave at a Ron Paul for President rally in Mountain View, California. A good 600 people showed up in the middle of a park next to Google headquarters. Ron was there, and he gave a great ...

When I read that a conspiracy of leftist students and secular professors who claim that they are still traumatized by the Galileo trial—what a pack of flaccids, no wonder they’ve got such a low ...

Bill Sammon, the author of The Evangelical President: George Bush’s Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World, cannot be labeled a critic of President Bush.  As both the senior White House ...

My popularity on television and the internet has led a very small money manager to use his popular financial blog to promote his fledgling business by attacking the recent poor performance of my long-term investment ...

Unlike my eldest daughter, who is a mathematician and econometrician, I have about as much training in statistics as did St. Anselm of Canterbury or Augustus Caesar. But I did check out the recorded hits for major ...

In a speech this week summarizing his administration’s economic policies, President Obama grossly overstated the support these policies enjoy by claiming, “economists on the left and right agree that the last ...

The day before Richard Holbrooke arrived in Kabul, eight suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Justice and Education ministries, killing 26 and wounding 57. Kabul was paralyzed, as the Taliban displayed an ability to ...

When Michael Phelps was awarded a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, it was a moment of great pride for the young swimming champion and his country. Phelps likely wouldn"€™t experience a more ...