When a child is having a temper tantrum, you have to be very careful what you say. Even a gently concerned "What's wrong?" can send them on a whole new tirade. The same ...
Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) are the bureaucrats who fined a comedian for heckling back at lesbian hecklers and persecuted a magazine that published the so-called ...
Although yesterday, April 15th, is an annually observed National Day of Mourning, this year it fell on a Sunday, a holy day when no federal postal workers must be roused from ...
Unlike Rich Lowry's predictably PC response to John Derbyshire's controversial article on what parents should tell their kids about race, I was less than "appalled" by it. ...
The word "Italians" conjures up a number of epithets. Take, for example, "Corrupt Bastards." The Italians are mired in corruption. This is either despite or ...
As if smart phones weren’t irritating enough, by the end of the year people will be wearing them on their faces. Google Glasses will finally allow trendy transhumanists to ...
It seems all of the changes taking place these days are for the worse. I am hardly a Miss Havisham to say it would be better that some things"especially good hotels"remain ...
What did the Indian say when he crossed the road? "Me just walkum Trail of Tears!" Merely for telling that joke, current mores dictate that I should apologize and make ...
Two years ago Oak Ridge, TN housed the world's fastest supercomputer. Even better, my state took the #1 rank for meth-lab busts that year. Nothing says "vicarious ...
Across the nation, the question resounds: “Are corporations people?” To a man of strict political principles this is obviously a yes or no question. But I’ve ...
As Mitt Romney stumbles his way through the Republican primaries, his candidacy has brought renewed scrutiny of the oft-demonized world of private equity. Before venturing into ...
When the bloated and declawed Las Vegas casino-money recipient Newt Gingrich had some fun recently over Mitt Romney's ability to speak a few words of French, Europeans took notice ...
Who is worse—the pusher or the addict? I’d say it’s fifty-fifty as they sustain each other, although the addict has the moral high ground. Greece is the addict. The German ...
Ghosts were the first thing I remember frightening me as a child. Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Ghosts are at least as real as dreams." This is the most intelligent ...
A restaurant called Taboo is one my favorite haunts in one of my favorite American cities, Palm Beach, FL. After years of occasional visits, I noticed I was inevitably ushered ...
I guess I haven’t been paying attention, but it looks as if a lot of you haven’t been paying attention. During an online forum discussion the other day, after I’d asked some ...
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