An Overdose of Hope
The Democrats are done weaving their web in Charlotte, and wow, what a web it was"an intricate lattice of multicolored Silly String that included everyone and said nothing. Did you know that Democrats like the blacks? And ...
The Democrats are done weaving their web in Charlotte, and wow, what a web it was"an intricate lattice of multicolored Silly String that included everyone and said nothing. Did you know that Democrats like the blacks? And ...
If we"re going to bail out an entire industry, how about drive-in movie theaters? Fewer than 400 remain in America and they all need roughly $100,000 each to switch over to digital because the studios are phasing out the ...
The USA, I"m sorry to see, is currently behind China in gold medals, 17-12. And oh dear, there’s Britain, with only two gold medals. It’s only Wednesday night, though"end of the fifth day, eleven still to ...
Gore Vidal was as good as it gets where writing is concerned. I can"t think of a single awkward sentence he ever wrote, and he wrote a hell of a lot for someone from a very privileged background who could do more enjoyable ...
Back in 1982 a faction of Lebanese Arabs massacred Palestinian Arabs at two refugee camps in Beirut. The Israeli army, in the neighborhood at the time, was accused of turning a blind eye to the killings. Hearing of this, ...
Since women (and not a few men) obviously love a man in uniform, where is all the porn featuring the Royal Canadian Mounted Police? Dirty cops are an X-rated staple, and "the UPS guy" has almost driven the ...
Comes now news from across the pond that executives at one of the world’s most respected banks, Barclays, rigged Libor. Even the venerable Bank of England is apparently being investigated. For sports fans, this is like ...
Italian communists always wanted a revolution in Italy, but I do not think that this is quite what they had in mind: A Chinese man has just bought the bar at their party headquarters in the city of Forlì in the ...
Whatever one's views on today's Middle Eastern regimes, we can all agree that violent rioting is not a system of governance. But how can raucous street demonstrations be prevented from deteriorating into endless anarchy? The ...
When libertarians, paleocons, neocons, and Republicans are confronted with a shrieking liberal they usually shoo it away. That's easy if you don"t live in New York City, Berkeley, LA, or Madison, but those of us mired here ...
The struggles of even the best-connected California celebrities to nail down every last one of the permits they need to build on their own property helps demonstrate why differences in topography drive Californians toward ...
The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the Bundesbank executive board, is a rambling critique of the eurozone. His book Deutschland braucht den Euro nicht (Germany does not need the euro) ...
ONBOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—I made a resolution long ago never to mention the Olympics, but resolutions are made to be broken. My uncle competed in Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936, and my father ran the relay for Greece in ...
You probably haven"t heard of Get the Gringo, a recent Lethal Weapon-like action movie starring Mel Gibson and directed by his right-hand man Adrian Grunberg. Mad Mel plays Driver, an American criminal who makes a run for ...