The Royal Engineers did anything the Army needed"from building bridges to crossing rivers, from building camps to clearing mines"so they needed to be tough soldiers. They ...
That slogan on pop star Madonna's T-shirt "Italians do it better!" may date back to the 1980s but it is still popular with Italian men. They often deploy it to impress ...
After leaving dinner with my in-laws here in Brooklyn on Monday, I saw two men standing on the curb looking very righteous. One was Asian and the other was white, which in this ...
Ray Bradbury is dead. For the past twenty years I have dreaded writing those words. The effusive homages to a man who was arguably America's greatest living writer are in full ...
After four days of royalist reverie, the imported Union Jacks are starting to sag"drooping disconsolately as the proud people who "never ever shall be slaves" shake ...
Always one to court controversy in lieu of talent, Madonna recently projected an enormous image of right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead à ...
Mass news reports last week of an impending “Zombie Apocalypse” proved that while the apocalypse may not have arrived quite yet, there are plenty of zombies waiting ...
Although the adjective "fascist," as George Orwell pointed out during and right after World War II, was a slur applied to "those we don"t like," the ...
Here are my experiences with airport security at various spots around the world during the past several years. CHICAGO It is a hot day in early September, and I"m standing ...
While I was arguing about abortion recently with a pro-choice pal he said, "I just wish stupid people would stop having babies." This is a common sentiment among the smart ...
My lifetime engagement with the pharmaceutical industry has been minimal. This, I know and regret, is un-American. Every red-blooded native-born citizen of this republic is an ...
MIT's Daron Acemoglu is a rock star among economists, one of the ten most cited in his profession. This is largely because of the paper the Istanbul-born Armenian cowrote in 2001: ...
I love Queen Elizabeth. I love her pastel-colored outfits. I love her little black handbags. I love the regal look in her eye. I even love it when she has to wear her silly crown ...
I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn"t seem that pushy. Apparently others feel the same way. When I started typing “pushy ...