A common saying among Civil War buffs is: "Poor is the nation that has no heroes. Shameful is the one that, having heroes, forgets them." We"re quickly becoming a ...
It is now nearly a hundred years since H.G. Wells remarked in his book The Outline of History that: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and ...
The Week's Most Frustrating, Irritating, and Aggravating Headlines FRANCE MARCHES FOR FREE SPEECH, THEN ARRESTS DOZENS FOR SPEAKING On Sunday January 11, an estimated 3.7 ...
This is a good time to write about a nation’s resilience in the face of calamity. I am referring to the stoic discipline with which the Japanese bore hardship and the death of ...
Much as I hate to give the Obama administration credit for anything at all, I must say, I'm glad our politicians stayed away from this phony, bogus ...
The age of Krapp. There went another year swirling down the plughole"one of the best ever, according to one salaried commentator. I don"t know about that. It was the ...
BREAKING NEWS!!!"A bomb may...or may not...have gone off near a Colorado Springs office of the NAACP last week, and it may...or may not...have been a hate crime. I"ll ...
The Week's Most Hateful, Fateful, and Ungrateful Headlines EXCEPT FOR THE SEVEN BILLION OF US WHO AREN"T CHARLIE HEBDO, WE ARE ALL CHARLIE HEBDO The news story that dominated ...
The mass immigration of Muslims into non-Muslim nations was the worst idea of the 20th century, after ...
I recently spent some time making a table for my kitchen, with the assistance of a dear friend whose hobby is cabinetry, and who is generous with his time and equipment. (Thanks, ...
I can"t resist a writing style guide, especially one that promises to be lively. Steven Pinker made his name as a linguistic and cognitive scientist; his 2002 book The Blank ...
Over the last half-century, enormous efforts have been expended by individuals to get their groups, such as blacks, women, Jews, homosexuals, and Hispanics, certified as authentic ...
British TV personality Katie Hopkins was born with a very unfortunate nose. Her proboscis is roughly the size of a toucan's beak. Blonde-haired and with sparkling blue eyes, the ...
PIERCING LBJ's HALO Those who do not learn from history are doomed to watch stupid Hollywood movies about it. The film Selma, set for release on Friday, is said to be the first ...
Recently I went from Paris to London for lunch, returning for dinner. This is made easy nowadays, though not necessarily cheap, by the Eurostar train. I am not usually given to ...
Yes: according to Mr Mayor, all that anti-cop sentiment was the fault of CNN and the New York ...
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