That’s “€œFrances”€ With an “€œe”€

A striking feature of post-1968 liberalism is its obsession with the problems of people who don"€™t really have major problems. While activists of the past worried about the ...

Sailing on Air

Seven score and twenty-something years ago, a boat crossed the Atlantic from Hoboken, New Jersey for a day sail around the Isle of Wight. Thirty proper yachts vied with the sharp ...

Paula Deen

The Cruelty of the Overclass

Here is David Gelernter’s classic take on Virginia Military Institute being forced by the US Supreme Court in 1996 to admit women: The elite hated VMI, and no doubt VMI ...

The Grapes of Hate

Stop the presses. Call out the National Guard. Order in the tanks. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is mad and is not going to take it anymore. Especially from Vini Lunardelli, the ...

Dr. Phil McGraw

Dr. Phil’s Drunken Sex Escapade

I"€™ll admit it: I"€™m unfashionably fond of Dr. Phil. At least early on"€”before he got caught up in shady stuff such as trying to brand his family as the Osmonds of ...

A Nation of Working-Class Dropouts

Every time a liberal sees someone behaving badly they sigh and say, "€œThey just need education,"€ but the solution to America's problems is less education, not more. If we ...

How the Love Boat Ruined My Life

A relic of a long-gone era of “happy endings” and “family viewing,” the real-life Love Boat’s final voyage was marred by a perfectly po-mo, Irony Age ...

Elon Musk

The Odiferous Musk of Billionaires

I hate billionaires. I loathe, disdain, and want to throw them in a wood chipper; take your pick, I can"€™t stand to be in a room with them. Millionaires are a different story. ...

Matt Damon

Elysium: Neill Blomkamp Fools the Critics Again

The new movie Elysium, another science-fiction fable from young Boer refugee Neill Blomkamp about the horrors of mass immigration and nonwhite overpopulation, isn’t terribly ...

Hugo Schwyzer

The Unsurprising Sexism of Male Progressives

"€œI"€™ve been married to a capitalist, a communist, and a fascist, and neither [sic] would take out the garbage,"€ Zsa Zsa Gabor supposedly said. In the pre-Internet era, ...

A Rebel Yell for the Colonel

Trayvon. Bernanke. The Colonel. America is buffeted by blustery winds of change these days, yet who among us would have thought even they could disquiet the solemnity of the ...

Jay Leno and Johnny Carson

Leno’s Last Laugh

Yes, there really is a Burbank. As a kid, I assumed that the smallish California city with the “beautiful downtown” was just a cheesy Tonight Show punch line, not a ...

When Being a Rebel Was Hard Work

When I was a kid, being a rebel was hard work. You didn"€™t have the Internet spoon-feeding you the latest trends. You had to dig under rocks to find out what was happening. If ...

Michael Moore

Letting the Air out of Michael Moore

People weren’t as shocked by the news of Michael Moore’s pending divorce as they were at the thought of some poor woman marrying him in the first place. The ...

The Motor City Blows its Pistons

Detroit, a city once known as “The Paris of the West” and “The Arsenal of Democracy,” has fallen and it can’t get up. In 1960 it boasted the ...

There’s a Pill for That

Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World depicts an ideal pleasure drug, a hangover-free tranquilizer called soma that the totalitarian government freely distributed ...


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