With revelation of the highly questionable narrative by football player Manti Te"o that he was "duped" into believing he had an online girlfriend, the nation has once ...
On the brilliant summer's morning of June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a technical research ship lying in international waters about 25 miles north of the Sinai Peninsula, was ...
As part of my continuing series on the causes of the 60s, let’s consider Kevin Drum’s revival (”America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead”) in Mother ...
The only two books that permanently reside on my dinky desk are Roget's Thesaurus and a smelly, brittle copy of The Boy Looked At Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll. I bought ...
On Friday during a speech in Florida, slain civil-rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.'s far fatter, balder, and lighter-skinned son urged Americans to break free from their ...
Moments after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School ended, theories of government complicity in the tragedy began. Some have been worthy of exploration, while many are ...
I watched the birth of my third child this week and it's amazing how quickly you forget the bad parts. I understand why. We probably wouldn"t be here if we didn"t ...
GSTAAD—The subprimate level of conversation, as prevalent as the snow up here in the Alps, took a turn for the better last week when a select few celebrated Prince Nicolas ...
Although not afflicted with a crippling deficiency of self-esteem, I once in a while get to wondering whether my opinions on the passing charivari are perhaps ill-informed, warped ...
Few disagree with the line from the old Jimmy Buffett song that “If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane.” Yet in movies, humorless characters are ...
Like all English royals who ever lived, Kate Middleton is only as handsome as nature made her"no more, no less. The fact that she has wrinkles under her eyes, that her nose ...
New Year's resolutions work only for bores and ambulance-chasing, money-grubbing lawyers. Normal people do not and cannot stick to them. Hence I will list for you my irritants of ...
This is your ballistically genial host John Derbyshire with highlights from the week's ...
Remember the good old days when you"d only have one tyrant per country and they"d usually kill a few thousand people? Today anyone can be tyrannical and use their shrill ...
Kathryn Bigelow, director of the Kill Osama thriller Zero Dark Thirty (which goes into national release Friday), has always been the film nerd's dream date: attractive, classy, ...
It began late in the afternoon of March 13, 1954. The great Battle of Dien Bien Phu had finally begun. 105mm and 75mm howitzers and 120mm mortars rained down from above. Ten ...
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