Pope Banned from Speaking in Rome
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 ...
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 ...
He's the conscience of the Republican party, or, at least, of its conservative wing " a reminder of the good old days, when being a right-wing GOPer meant never having to say you voted to raise taxes, or to increase the ...
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 President Bush sold the Iraq War to the American people, he claimed that refusing to act was unacceptable as the crisis of global terrorism required immediate action. Said Bush in 2002 "Some have argued we should ...
I love this quote from a McClatchy News Service piece on Ron Paul: “‘He’s definitely an enigma,’ said Allen Cumbie, the head of the Democratic Party in Matagorda County, Texas. ‘I don’t ...
Minoritarianism: five percent of the population imposing their standards on the other 95 ...
There is an old adage on Wall Street that no one rings a bell at major market tops or bottoms. That may be true in normal times, but as many have noticed, we are now completely through the looking glass. In this parallel ...
When America declared a “war on poverty” in the 1960’s, it was believed that even more assistance by the federal government would lead to eradicating the problem. What we got instead was bigger government ...
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 ...
Given the rather grim prospects for antiwar voters this election, it is understandable why many look to Obama and think that they have found someone they can trust. But this is a mistake. It isn’t that Obama is wrong ...
“Where there is no solution, there is no problem,” geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed. Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it ...
Here’s a bagatelle, a French word denoting something unimportant, however cute. It has to do with Paul Gottfried. History has repeatedly proved that the nobility has always been better fitted for the business of ...
Something interesting happened as I was waiting on Sunday for a train at Penn Station in Manhattan. The experience was so amusing and so utterly revealing that I still can’t dislodge it from my mind. A lady was ...
An announcement received on my email indicates that Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, has been invited to Heritage Foundation on October 18 to deliver a "lecture" on "The Israeli Lobby and the ...
Andrew Sullivan avers that “a McCain nomination means one thing for sure. The era of legal, authorized torture in America is coming to a close.” So they’re going to stop torturing those guys in ...
If you haven’t read Victor Gold’s Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy Rollers and the Neocons Destroyed the GOP, then you’re in for a treat. Irascible as Taki, and full of bile against the neocon ...
If we evaluate Sunday's Ron Paul r3VOLution March according Kevin's "Rules for Radicals," then it comes out pretty well. "Rowdiness in moderation" must be some kind of conservative ideal, and the crowd ...
In the comments on “Control the Borders, Not the Citizens,” Michael Morris suggests that I’m engaging in “fear-mongering” when I mention the possibility that Islamic immigration to the United ...
How they intend to take the nomination away from Obama, without necessarily resorting to the “super-delegates”: I think Derb’s on to something. That doesn’t mean Obama won’t be on the ...
During dark days I’m convinced that those who set themselves up to rule over us are knaves and poltroons to a man and woman: on the good days I’m willing to admit that there might indeed be those of probity, ...
For conservatives fretful over the future of the party to which they have given allegiance, How Barack Obama Won: A State by State Guide to the Historic 2008 Election reads like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. ...
I find the fact that Bernard Madoff is walking around free and smoking cigars an outrage. The press and media have reported that his two sons gave him away. That’s almost as big a lie as Madoff’s life and ...
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” sayeth Rahm. Opportunistic and cynical, yes. But also savvy political counsel that transformational presidents have always followed. FDR exploited the ...
The front page of the Globe and Mail in Vancouver, where I was lecturing last week, explained on March 12 that the "sex scandal" that had engulfed former Governor Eliot Spitzer and which had precipitated his ...
