The Turd World

Every time Islam pokes its head out of its towel, I get nostalgic. Oh, women in Egypt were sexually assaulted for protesting sexual assault last week? Ahh, that takes me back to ...

Let Them Drink Coke

New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed ...

How the Tea Party Sunk Itself

The Tea Party emerged about a year after I first got interested in libertarian politics, and I was proud to see people protesting against taxation and supporting individual ...

Barack Obama

Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?

Within days of SEAL Team Six’s killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White ...

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne Barr & The Comeback That Never Came

I"€™m so old, I remember when Ellen DeGeneres was straight; Rosie O"€™Donnell wasn"€™t merely straight, she was the "€œQueen of Nice"€; and Joan Rivers would never eat ...

Israel to Africans: Go Home

While much of America's media required smelling salts last week to revive itself from being grievously offended by a harmless wisecrack Don Rickles made about Obama, it barely ...

Just Another Mouth in the Republican Fellatio Machine

The symbolic thrust of Hustler's crude, much-protested, Photoshopped depiction of Rockefeller Republican S. E. Cupp is commendable: Silence this siren of stupidity. The Hustler ...

Slimming Down the System

Conservatives have long waged a seemingly futile campaign to slim down the federal government. Even "€œconservative"€ presidents such as George W. Bush fed the monster. But ...

Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War

In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria—arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to “create safe zones” for anti-regime forces “inside ...

Ours Was Not to Reason Why

Tony Blair was interrupted at the Leveson Inquiry last week by a protestor calling him a war criminal. It seems the Iraq War won"€™t go away for Blair. Leadership involves ...

Recolonizing the Dark Continent

In his book The Trouble With Africa, Robert Calderisi recounts the sad story of two African teenagers who stowed away in the cargo hold of a Brussels-bound Airbus. They died on ...

Great Garbo

Stuck Between Demagogues and Vulgarians

ONBOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—However you cut it, Greek demagogues are bluffing that the faceless suits of Brussels will give in to the blackmail and fold their hand. Greeks are born ...

A (Long, Hot) Fun Safe Summer

At the end of last year's long, hot, flash-mob summer, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter stood at a church pulpit in the City of Brotherly Love doing his best Bill Cosby ...

When High Heels Come to Boot Camp

Two female soldiers are suing the US military for "€œviolating the rights of servicewomen by excluding them from certain military positions and from ground combat units because ...

Bill Kristol

How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists

After taping John Stossel’s show on May 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up ...

Beppe Grillo

Black Robes and Blackshirts

The uomo nuovo in Italian politics is a professional comic called Beppe Grillo, whose slogan is "€œVaffanculo!"€ (Fuck off!) He's opposed to everything, it seems, except wind ...


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