Bedtime for Bonzo’s Behaviorist Bent

To celebrate Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, I watched his most derided movie, Bedtime for Bonzo. We"€™ve been hearing wisecracks about it for generations, so it has to be an ...

More Black History, Please

On January 30, the New York Post took a dig at Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who was accused of "€œrewriting history"€ by uttering the following statement about ...

The Futility of Dissidence

A few weeks ago in this space I did a Q&A with Jared Taylor of the race-realist American Renaissance website and monthly newsletter. At the time, Jared was preparing for his ...

Hookers at the Hedgerow, Teenage Orgies, and Teaching Your Daughter to Strip

Dear Delphi, I am an American married to an American, and we live in the countryside just outside of Rome. The problem is that directly in front of our gate we have two to three ...

Churchill: More Myth Than Legend

Last week a country-club Republican friend in Palm Beach gave me a copy of The Weekly Standard and urged me to read “A World in Crisis: What the thirties tell us about ...

Winter’s Bone: Blood in the Ozarks

Winter's Bone, an arthouse detective drama now out on DVD, is the Scots-Irish hillbilly equivalent of all those fine recent movies about the Irish Catholic Massachusetts ...

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Sexism On and Off the Field

On January 22, Sky Sports announcers Andy Gray and Richard Keys were overheard joking about female assistant referee Sian Massey. Keys said: "€œSomebody better get down there ...

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Arkansas Store Censors Elton John’s Designer Baby!

A global scandal erupted last week after someone complained about the manner in which a grocery store in Mountain Home, Arkansas was displaying an Us Weekly cover featuring ...

Obama Makes an Exception for American Exceptionalism

Obama's State of the Union speech was a smashing rhetorical success, as the New York Post conceded in its editorial the next morning, because it expressed the ...

The Prince’s Wedding Present

When the modern-day eminences grises in grey suits from St. James’s gave the nod of approval to William and Kate’s marriage, only the most hardened cynics were heard ...

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The Multicultural Cringe

This week’s storm in a teacup was when Chinese pianist Lang Lang played the Chinese song “My Motherland” at a US state dinner for visiting Chinese functionaries. ...

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The Way Back: Hollywood Discovers the Gulags

To be Oscar-eligible, a movie had to have played for one week last year in Southern California. Last Christmas, I had looked forward to heading down to the ArcLight on Sunset ...

Drunk Teens, Pregnant Teens, the Prodigal Hubby, and a Real Barnburner

Dear Delphi, I am a single dad and this morning I found my cute, sweet, 17-year-old daughter passed out in the driver’s seat in our driveway. I am scared to death and ...

The Philadelphia Horror: How Mass Murder Gets a Pass

Let’s give the “climate of hate” rhetoric a rest for a moment. It’s time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives ...

“€˜O”€™ Predicts the Future, Scotland Burns & Roses Bloom on Park Ave

Plus, Jane Fonda blogs, a Beatlemaniac opens his own museum, and actors celebrate ...

Mr. Assange’s Digital McCarthyism

Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar ...


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