The Old California
The central insight of conservatism"that everything is always getting worse"is dramatically illustrated by the little hamlet I recently moved to: Rio Nido, California. Located in the wine country of Sonoma county, ...
The central insight of conservatism"that everything is always getting worse"is dramatically illustrated by the little hamlet I recently moved to: Rio Nido, California. Located in the wine country of Sonoma county, ...
Last week I ventured down to Geneva for a meeting with my banker, a gentleman of the old school who did not get carried away by Bernie Madoff’s siren songs. To the contrary, he went as far as Odysseus, tied himself to his ...
Antifascist news sources from the New York Times to the Süddeutsche Zeitung to the Associated Press have been acting in unison of late decrying the Nazi occupation of the Vatican. From these frantic accounts, it seems that ...
The Damn Boomers Are Ruining All the Fun! In the midst of all the bad news"political, economic, and military"clustering around the memory of 2008 and the first few weeks of 2009, this writer received several shocks ...
The intense scrutiny recently paid to my investment strategy in the immediate wake of the financial crisis of the last six months has unfortunately obscured the central element of my larger economic forecast. The standard line ...
Geert Wilders" courage, charisma, strength of character and intelligence are not in question"and he is obviously right to point out the danger posed by the recrudescence of Europe's historic enemy. But brave though he ...
With reports circulating of its imminent demise, The New York Times announced in January that it had found a white knight. Sort of. For the knight in question, who already owns 6 percent of the sinking Times and was ...
The annoying thing about tear gas is that it doesn"t hit you all at once. They had used a smoke grenade before that and so you assumed it was just another one. You cough slightly at first, so slightly you don"t think ...
Standing before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia’s triumphs over Denmark, Austria, and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a “citizen of the ...
The Macpherson Report on the police investigation of the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence was published in London in January 1999. Ten years on, it is continuing to have major repercussions for British ...
The "new" New Deal recidivism reveals a sclerotic movement stuck in the past. The ubiquitous prefix "new" stamped on any old program reflects the movement's horror that its ancient pedigree might be discovered. ...
People who want to find out what Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke has in mind for the economy need to read some history. Bernanke declares himself a "Great Depression buff," and as a professor at Princeton, ...
GSTAAD—If someone bet that The Spectator issue of 10 January outsold or was read by more people than any other weekly — and that includes best selling popular crap like Hello! and OK! — they’d be collecting their ...
Some people look at actress Jeri Ryan and see the former cover girl for Maxim and FHM. Some recall her days in a latex catsuit as Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager. Show biz junkies call her a show killer because she's ...