Marine Le Pen

Something Smells Vichy in France

Can anyone point me in the direction of the far right? How far is it, say, from the center? Is it more “out there” than the extreme right? Is the far right limitless, ...

Mark

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Quirky, Jerky, and Twerky Headlines CONGRESS: LESS POPULAR THAN HEMORRHOIDS It has been two weeks since the inaction of an obstinately squabbling Congress ...

Boehner Goes Limp

Once again, Republicans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Faced with rising populist support of their principled stand against a law that a majority of the country ...

Hannibal Qaddafi

Axis of Weevils

NEW YORK—Libyans are among the most civilized people on Earth. When a Russian hooker (I assume) killed a Libyan Air Force officer, a mob stormed the Russian embassy seeking ...

Rise of the Sugar Babies

The government is shut down. Or at least something like 17 percent of it is. Big deal. They did the same thing when I was in high school. From what I remember"€”and spending my ...

Is the Conflict Between Us Irreconcilable?

One way or another, the battle of the budget and the debt ceiling will be over by All Hallows’ Eve. Yet, as one looks deeper, at the irreconcilable conflict behind the ...

Nathan Verhelst

Softly Putting the Monster to Sleep

At age 44, Nathan Verhelst looked into a mirror and saw a monster staring back. Born Nancy Verhelst, the Belgian transsexual recently granted a "€œfarewell interview"€ to a ...

U.S. Capital Building

Look Houseward, Angel

If you don"€™t stop something in the House of Representatives, it never is stopped. Period. Not sometimes, not oftentimes, not occasionally; but never. This applies to all ...

The Beltway Lies of the Obamacare War

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill. What is the truth behind the Beltway lies about ...

O.J. Simpson

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Bloody, Gutty, and Nutty ...

President Hassan Rouhani

Is Iran the Fourth Reich?

In the fall of 1956, Nikita Khrushchev threatened to rain rockets down on London for the British invasion of Suez and sent his tanks into Budapest to drown the Hungarian ...

Social Oncology, Race, and the Legacy Media

“It’s Just a Lump. It Will Probably Go Away.” I think I will don a loincloth, stop bathing, and ascend a mountain where I will gibber, drool, and perhaps ...

The Lost Art of Stasis

It’s coming up to new laptop time, so I headed down to Best Buy. All they had were Windows 8 machines. The assistant gave me a tour of this new operating system. It was ...

This One’s for the Kids

Whenever a colleague asks for voting advice, I have one stock answer"€”vote for whoever doesn’t have commercials with children. Whichever candidate trots out the tykes is ...

Senator Lindsey Graham

Lindsey’s Plan for War on Iran

This summer produced a triumph of American patriotism. A grassroots coalition arose to demand Congress veto any war on Syria. Congress got the message and was ready to vote no to ...

In Defense of Neanderthals

The most stubbornly hypocritical glitch in the egalitarian mindset is that eugenics is roundly and vigorously dismissed as a dangerous and discredited pseudoscience...unless it ...


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