Catching the Christmas Spirit
When I was young, there was much talk of “the Christmas spirit,” and I’ve always been fortunate enough to begin experiencing the joy appropriate for this time of year sometime before the big day. This ...
When I was young, there was much talk of “the Christmas spirit,” and I’ve always been fortunate enough to begin experiencing the joy appropriate for this time of year sometime before the big day. This ...
Be prepared for a homosexual parody of Christmas when you take a stroll through Amsterdam these days. The Dutch city, the self-declared "Gay capital of the world," is holding its first "Pink Christmas ...
She calls herself "Melissa Beech," and if we take her thumbnail biography at face value, she's a college senior, living in Philadelphia"and living in lavish style, thanks to her wealthy boyfriend. A successful ...
Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the “splendid little war” that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it ...
Paul Michael Weyrich, a founding father of the New Right, has died. Eternity has stolen from us a great man. I first met Paul (he insisted on being called by his first name; once, when I addressed him as "Mr. ...
NEW YORK—A Brooklyn-born rapper by the name of John Forte had a business idea of sorts about eight years ago. It was one of those get-rich quickly schemes that, alas, work most of the time, hence the reason so many ...
The Beltway Right is still venting its collective spleen over Bill Kristol's latest Times op-ed in which he argues, rather elliptically, that the conservative movement and GOP should get rid of its "small government," ...
Why is this recession different, and likely much worse, from all the recessions of the past? Imagine a Paleolithic village which has no children. When all the adults grow too old to work, everyone dies. Now imagine a country ...
I used to answer friends who told me something I’d said was tasteless (and they were right) with a quip like, “If you can’t joke about terrorism and cancer, what can you joke about?” I was mostly being ...
On the evenings of October 10 and 11, 1999, the A&E cable network broadcast a list of "The 100 Most Influential People of the Past 1000 Years," selected by a "Blue Ribbon Panel." 10. Galileo, 9. Copernicus, 8. ...
I"ve avoided reading, let alone commenting on, the various post-election analyses of "where is conservatism headed?" or "what went wrong?" symposiums, because in my old age I"m becoming more intolerant ...
Keeping track of the ever mutating bailout debate is becoming increasingly difficult. With the Federal money spigots now thrown wide open, and with no one of influence advising restraint, the only debate is where to direct the ...
For years I"ve belabored acquaintances with the observation by stating that the paleoconservatives who had spent their lives butting their heads against the American conservative movement, were becoming less and less ...
NEW YORK—When I heard about it, my own inchoate feelings were confused. A party for Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, and the caller was Nat Rothschild, son of Lord Rothschild, a major donor to Jewish causes ...