Selma, 50 Years On

On Martin Luther King Day, 2015, how stand race relations in America? “Selma,” a film focused on the police clubbing of civil rights marchers led by Dr. King at Selma ...

10 Great Things About Young Nannies

Well, first of all, hummina hummina! Having some twentysomething bouncing around your house in a French maid's costume is a great reward for being wealthy enough to hire help. ...

John Deasy

The Education-Industrial Complex

During the Vietnam War, a famous protest bumper sticker read: It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to ...

The Trouble With Texas

Is Texas about the best fate that a heavily Hispanicized America can hope for? In a future United States that won’t be able to generate all that much per-capita wealth, is ...

The Joy of American Unexceptionalism

The estimable Charles Murray has published a new pamphlet, American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History. It builds on the section in his 2012 book Coming Apart explaining ...

The Motor City Blows its Pistons

Detroit, a city once known as “The Paris of the West” and “The Arsenal of Democracy,” has fallen and it can’t get up. In 1960 it boasted the ...

The Abolition of Racial and Ethnic Preferences

In America's fifth year of having a black president, the five Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices had an opportunity on Monday to abolish racial and ethnic preferences for ...

They Say They Want a Revolution

According to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey, 29% of US citizens polled say they believe that “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be ...

Is Christianity Homophobic?

That “loving Jesus means hating gay people” is “proclaimed in Christian churches and on Christian television and radio broadcasts.” So declares Dan Savage ...

Nation of Leeches

Just as 2011 was the year that no one would shut the hell up about the "€œ99%,"€ this year's election season has birthed another obnoxious quotient that refuses to ...

American Birthrates: Quantity v. Quality

We live in an age, we are often informed, of Big Data. Every facet of life is collected, counted, and analyzed carefully: baseball statistics, Twitter trends, and even Google ...

Good News for Chicken Little

In these dark days of the republic, sourpusses abound. Less than a third of the country thinks it is on the right track. Unemployment is up, confidence is down, and the economy ...

No Room at the Inn

Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) are the bureaucrats who fined a comedian for heckling back at lesbian hecklers and persecuted a magazine that published the so-called ...

Nicki Minaj

The War on Dads

When Nicki Minaj flailed around satanically onstage in front of a scared fake priest at the Grammys last week, the Catholic Church was understandably upset. "€œWhether Minaj is ...

United We Sit on the Couch

So the California regency (er, Eighth Circuit Court) has sided with the homosexual lobby against the majority’s express will. This is no surprise. When judicial autocracy ...

Stacking up Debt (and Bodies) in Illinois

When G8 leaders convene in Chicago this May to discuss managing the global economy, they’ll be meeting in a city that has botched its own finances so thoroughly, even its morgue ...


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