You Don”€™t Mess With the Tsar

He makes running the world look easy. I’ve been watching Russian President Putin’s merciless wielding of the rule of law, Moscow-style. The president"€”might as well ...

Benjamin Netanyahu

A Deal With Iran—or War With Iran?

If Bibi Netanyahu succeeds in closing down Obama’s diplomatic path to Iran, only the road to war remains open. Which is exactly what Bibi wants. For what terrifies Tel ...

When the Military Pushed Back

In the latest political assault on the spirit and traditions of our fighting forces, US Navy brass has banned SEAL troops from wearing the colonial "€œDON"€™T TREAD ON ME"€ ...

Life in the Olive Republic

Like all proper banana republics, the Olive Republic of Greece has jailed some elected members of Parliament and charged them with criminality, as obscure and vague an accusation ...

President Barack Obama

Obama: Helpless Fool or Willing Tool?

So Obama wasn’t aware we’d spent years spying on our ally Germany. Color me unsurprised. Throughout a career as community activist and several campaigns, he ...

Getting a Grip on Extremism (and Massaging it to Completion)

After leftist radicals shot and killed a pair of Golden Dawn members in Athens on Friday, news outlets referred to the killers as members of an "€œextremist"€ group. This was ...

10 New Rules for Radicals

Coming Apart author Charles Murray recently pointed to a very restrained rebuttal that the American Enterprise Institute’s Caroline Kitchens gave to some “idiotic, ...

Salon…and On and On

Is Salon.com the worst political commentary website on the Internet? I ask not as a snarky observer, but a genuine inquisitor. The webzine brands itself as a news outlet ...

Hurricane Gore Arrives Onshore

Board up the TV screen and plug your ears with seaweed, boys! Hurricane Gore is about to come ashore with another gale-force climate sermon. Interviews that the former next ...

United Nations, New York

United Negations

So has everyone finally recovered from United Nations Day? October 24th seems to roll around faster every year. I almost forgot to order the “blue helmet”-shaped ...

Brave New World

The first reports in early May of 1960 were that a U.S. weather plane, flying out of Turkey, had gone missing. A silent Moscow knew better. After letting the Americans crawl out ...

Dutch Santa’s Little Black Helper

For years now the world has been trying to tell The Netherlands that one of its favorite holiday traditions is an unacceptably racist vestige of colonial bloodletting, but the ...

The Hate That the Hatred of Hate Speech Produced

Apparently I was the only Canadian who wasn’t shocked when singer Steven Page was nicked for possessing cocaine back in 2011 (while in the company of a woman not his wife, ...

Hats Off to Mr. Tea-Tard

The US government is back open for business. It never actually shut down to begin with, but, hey, what are details? The alarmist media was getting too many clicks by feigning ...

The Little Blonde Gypsy Girl

Investigators who"€™d raided a dilapidated Roma camp in central Greece last week in search of illegal drugs and firearms didn"€™t expect to find a pale-skinned four-year-old ...

Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon

Goldwater-Rockefeller Redux

“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Mark Twain’s insight comes to mind as one observes the panic of Beltway Republicans over the latest polls ...


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