When I hear the words Sykes-Picot I more often than not feel like punching an Englishman or a Frog—any Englishman, any Frog—in the mouth, but then I think of François ...
In the early 1980s I became familiar with a cartoonist whom I considered to be one of the cleverest men I had read in a very long time. I collected as many of his pieces as ...
Louis Cachet, the artist formerly known as Varg Vikernes and the mastermind behind one-man black (apparently now formerly) metal band Burzum, is back in the legal hot seat. He was ...
President Barack Obama"who would never lie...at least not intentionally...or at least he wouldn"t admit it...recently spoke at a Massachusetts school where he claimed that ...
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” If Thomas Jefferson’s ...
There was a time"or so I"m told, anyway; it was long before my day"when college kids thumbed their noses at authority, fiercely defended the freedom to openly exchange ...
Last week in the Bagel, and then London here I come. As I write, hundreds of thousands of Jews are marching up 5th Avenue for “Salute to Israel Day.” They have been marching ...
Washington, D.C., May 15th, 2014: "What the HELL is going on?" roars POTUS as he storms into the Oval Office, holding a bourbon from his interrupted dinner. Secretary of ...
I write this while American unmanned flights and 18 American "specialists" are looking for those 200 unfortunate girls abducted by Boko Haram, a group our very own Hillary ...
Wednesday this week marks the 25th anniversary of the Chinese army's retaking Tiananmen Square from anti-regime protestors, an event known to Chinese by the date as ...
Watch out, codgers, curmudgeons and crackpots: Michelle Obama is enlisting your kids to monitor your thoughts. In a recent speech before five Topeka, KS graduating classes, Mrs. ...
Recently I read an interview with the President of Niger, the francophone country to the north of Nigeria, about Boko Haram, the Islamist group that kidnapped more than 200 ...
Within my lifetime, The New York Times will close its doors for good. "It's not even a newspaper anymore," Dennis Miller likes to say. "It's just a building acrobats ...
An almost botched execution in Oklahoma has revived a debate of sorts about capital punishment in America. After the failed injection of a lethal "cocktail," a mix of ...
Regardless of what dog you have in the Ukrainian turmoil, it is clear that Putin's plan is crude, transparent, and guaranteed to anger nearly everyone. Does anyone really believe ...
Have you Tweeted, Facebooked, YouTubed, Instagrammed, or LinkedIn (LOL) your hatred of Boko Haram yet? If not, why not? What is wrong with you? Scowling through social media at ...