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With the Census Bureau announcing this spring that the number of Hispanics in America has surpassed 50 million"a large majority of them of Mexican background"it's worth remembering the "Fernandomania" that ...
With the Census Bureau announcing this spring that the number of Hispanics in America has surpassed 50 million"a large majority of them of Mexican background"it's worth remembering the "Fernandomania" that ...
A punchably positive viral video that popped up like a smiley-faced genital wart a couple weeks ago featured four chipper young SoCal Caucasians seeking seed money to help them skip merrily across America building forts with ...
The US has another public-relations nightmare on its hands in Afghanistan. One would think a war lasting over a decade with no plausible end in sight would be enough of a PR disaster. This month's issue of Rolling Stone ...
Get yer hankies out. Here is the tale of little Emily Ruiz, four years old, the victim, according to her attorney, of “a tragic injustice.” Little Emily is the daughter of Leonel and Brenda Ruiz, illegal ...
It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Yes, the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is a nutcase and a bloodstained dictator who deserves a merciless kick in the pants and to be ...
In both politics and sports fandom, the fundamental question is: "Whose side are you on?" Exploring who roots for whom affords perspective on the big questions of who is politically loyal to what, and why. We can use ...
"I"m ninety-one years old, you know?" Bravo. Now have your diuretics and your hot milk drink, take your heart pills and blood-pressure tablets and your fistful of other prescription drugs, then we"ll provide ...
Sexual-harassment lawsuits began in the mid-1970s but really gained momentum in the politically correct 90s when radical feminism helped expand the definition of "rape" to include "anything that makes a woman ...
In sporting terms, America is very much an island with its own quaint customs. For this reason the etymologically unsound American version of "football""the world's most popular sport"mainly consists of ...
America's Great Weird Religion hit Manhattan's Great White Way last Thursday night as South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone premiered their musical The Book of Mormon to rapturously rhapsodic rave reviews. The Mormons" ...
My list of historical personages I"d invite to a dinner party doesn’t include any of the obvious choices. Who really wants to eat dinner with Genghis Khan or Julius Caesar? They’d probably make beetle brows at ...
With the nation broke, Congress snoozing, and the president dithering, what we need is a laugh. Here are two offerings of different kinds of humor. My own taste"English Lad Crude & Silly"inclines me more toward the ...
Four young men in black-denim jackets and hoodies closed in when the man they"d been waiting for emerged from the Mecklenburg Government Center. One of them yelled, "Jared Taylor, you"re a ...
NEW YORK—Twenty-two years or so ago, I wrote a column for The New York Observer, a weekly paper owned by a tycoon named Arthur Carter. He had come up the hard way and made his fortune in Wall Street but retained his loathing ...