Spaying the Queen’s English

There are no fishermen left in Washington State. As of July 1, they are all now “fishers.” There are no longer any “firemen,” only ...

Why the Reagan Democrats Departed

On Nov. 3, 1969, Richard Nixon, his presidency about to be broken by massive antiwar demonstrations, called on “the great silent majority” to stand by him for peace ...

James O'Keefe

Project Veritas: True Crime on the Front Line

James O’Keefe’s new book Breakthrough is a spine-tingling true-crime thriller about the quest for truth in the age of media obfuscation. I love reading Coulter and ...

Brooke Astor

A Sad Estate of Affairs

Today at 2:30PM, philanthropist Brooke Astor’s son Tony Marshall is expected to be sentenced to one to three years for...uh, I can’t seem to get a straight answer on ...

China Qingdao Port Container Terminal

Time to Stop Feeding the Tiger?

As America grew in the 1800s from a republic of a few millions, whose frontier stopped at the Mississippi, into a world power, there were constant collisions with the ...

Ladies: Start Your Engines!

Japan: Nuked too much, or not enough? It's a question I grapple with at least once a week. One minute I"€™m watching a BBC documentary about Hirohito and some ...

Unreality TV

Last week the television channel Animal Planet, which touts itself a primarily educational outlet, ran a program entitled Mermaids: The New Evidence. It featured several supposed ...

Lock Me Up and Throw Away the Smokes

In the epilogue to Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky provides the reader with a harsh, swift summary of prison life's brutalities. Penitence is painful, prolonged, and merciless, ...

Tyler the Creator

The 10 Most Horribly Racist Ads That Aren”€™t Even Remotely Racist

Whereas comedians or artists may want to ostracize a large group of people, an ad exec can lose his job for offending even one person. This makes sense, because a commercial is a ...

The Frack Strikes Back

The most amazing thing about Josh Fox's anti-fracking documentary Gasland is that despite valid factual criticisms of the film, he forged ahead and made a sequel. Hollywood loves ...

Jewish Wealth by the Numbers

Americans can learn much from Israel. It’s an increasingly prosperous nation that grapples manfully with its problems. For example, when the Israelis put up a fence along ...

Rush Limbaugh

Putting the “€œF”€ in FCC

George Carlin wasn"€™t funny. His "€œjokes"€ about the Catholic Church were juvenile truisms. On other topics, his "€œbrilliant"€ observations barely approach cheap ...

The Real Terrorists

I write this during the weekend that finally saw the end of those two dreadful Chechens who were described by many newspapers"€”starting with the Times, of course"€”as typical ...

Baroness Margaret Thatcher

Capitalism’s Champion

Margaret Thatcher had some direct impact on my life in three ways that I can recall. One. In January 1979, four months before she assumed office as prime minister, I left England ...

Where Have All the Workers Gone?

That America created only 88,000 jobs in March, less than half the number anticipated, was jolting news, indicating the recovery that the White House has boasted about may not be ...

Today, Cyprus, Tomorrow …

“Government is theft.” The old libertarian battle cry came to mind when the news hit, two weeks ago, that Cyprus was about to confiscate 7 percent of all the insured ...


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