Apparently the $447B check cleared and Obama was allowed to deliver Part Two of the “American Jobs Speech” he gave last Thursday. To set the proper ambiance, Obama ...

Immigration is a hot topic up here in Canada right now. It has been that way for decades if you’re a white, working-class “citizen” of Trudeaupia. But by order of our elite ...

Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme for these young people,” said Gov. Rick Perry in his first debate as a presidential candidate. “The idea ... that the current ...

The Internet is one of the most obvious signs of the Brave New World in which we all dwell. What began in the 1960s as a humble linking of two computers via cable has mushroomed ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE—I attended a young friend’s wedding to a celebrity DJ in a beautiful tent in an olive grove. Had a short chat with the beautiful Kate Moss and her hubby, ...

Once, it was a Labor Day tradition for Democrats to go to Cadillac Square in Detroit to launch their campaigns in that forge and furnace of American democracy, the greatest ...

On the blue Mediterranean I float, reading: It’s only now that we realize that the gleaming wealth of the past years was shored up by a perverse conjunction of bank loans, ...

GSTAAD—It’s been very sunny and hot, with the bluest of blue skies above and the greenest of green mountains around me. It does not get any better than this. The farmers have ...

I see Al Gore’s been at the sauce again. Former vice president Al Gore recently compared climate change doubters to racists. Gore, speaking with former advertising executive ...

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can ...

Even by Mexican Drug War standards, last Thursday’s death inferno at Monterrey’s Casino Royale seemed a bit much. At least 52 people died after a group of eight or nine gunmen ...

On July 18, 2011, Sean Hoare was found mysteriously deceased by London police. This is notable for two reasons. The first reason is that Hoare was a primary whistle-blower in the ...

Television—thanks to the profit motive—is intensely imitative. If any type of show is successful, a horde will suddenly appear of usually lesser and shorter-lived knockoffs. ...

Ah, reality! That mysterious, untouchable world of mass and energy, of gravity and fire, of genes and synapses. It lurks out of sight beyond our reach, knowable to us only by the ...

On the blue Aegean I float, reading: Greek cities were at least for a while taken over by populist strongmen swept into power partly by the demand for radical debt relief. This ...

I quipped in a column here a few months ago that the Pacific island nation of Niue may be the world’s first country to be completely emptied out by emigration. As you were. I ...