Hang the Cyber-Pirates

The other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a fundraising dinner of the city’s American grandees. Dotted among the plutocrats were various ...

Bring Us the Head of Ronald McDonald

Among the thousands of wailing grievance groups the progressive left nurtures, enables, coddles, and waters, "€œfood activists"€ tend to be among the most humorlessly ...

Aggressive Care for the Elderly: Too Much, Too Late

Lying on the backboard, a frail little old lady moaned with discomfort. She had fallen beside her bed in the nursing home and was then tightly bound by straps onto the backboard, ...

Duc d

Politicians: Branded Men

One of modernity's toxic effects is that words now mean whatever we want them to mean. They cease being a means of communication and become an instrument of power. Lewis Carroll ...

Dominique Strauss Kahn

The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order. New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of ...

A Phony Shade of Green

A few years ago, I brought a young visitor of mine from the East to Moonshadows, the Malibu boîte where Mel Gibson commenced his ill-starred drunken drive. As my friend went ...

1964 Ford Galaxie

Why Are New Cars So Ugly?

I looked out my bedroom window last night and saw Will Smith stepping into a 1967 Ford Galaxie. He was leaving the old-timey diner across the street with Tommy Lee Jones because ...

Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden’s Body Politic

Osama bin Laden is dead (supposedly). And what has it cost us? A decade-long war in Afghanistan which has thus far taken over 1,000 American lives with close to another 10,000 ...

Greg Mortenson and family

Three Cups of Bullshit

As someone who just handed his memoirs to Simon & Schuster, I am very sensitive about the concept of fake stories. For example, after writing about a threesome I was sure had ...

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Donald Trump’s Eminent-Domain Empire

Don’t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I’m a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of ...

War: Still a Racket

Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and "€œfinish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan."€ More than two years after he took the oath ...

In Defense of the Rich

"€œLet's put it this way,"€ says the uneducated liberal with the nursery-school analogies, "€œif Tommy has ten building blocks and Joey only has two, wouldn"€™t it make ...

Obama Blows up the Bridge

“Rather than building bridges, he’s poisoning wells,” said Rep. Paul Ryan, after listening to Barack Obama’s scathing attack on his deficit reduction plan ...

Valentina Tereshkova

The End of Manned Space Flight

Somewhere in the London Daily Mirror's billionfold archives is a photograph taken in February 1964 and published in that estimable newspaper of a small but enthusiastic crowd of ...

Robocrap

The Detroit RoboCop statue is a fitting cenotaph for the end of America, a goofy metal monument to everything wrong with the country. Funded by “new economy” Internet ...

Dov Charney with co-worker Eliana Rodriguez

Sexually Charged: From Charney to Seagal

Sexual-harassment lawsuits began in the mid-1970s but really gained momentum in the politically correct 90s when radical feminism helped expand the definition of "€œrape"€ to ...


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