Toulouse: The Dark Side of Diversity

As an act of pure evil it was difficult to match. After dragging the 8-year-old by her hair across a schoolyard, the killer put a 9 mm pistol to the girl’s head and pulled ...

Mohammed Zahir Shah

Af-gone-istan

My fascination with Afghanistan"€”especially the area now called Nuristan but originally Kafiristan"€”was first sparked by watching The Man Who Would Be King at Grauman's ...

The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville

Rising inequality “is the defining issue of our time,” said President Obama in his Osawatomie speech that echoed the “New Nationalism” address Theodore ...

Boering Our Way to Victory

Back in the days of $16 barrels of oil (it really was that low only a decade ago) when all the brouhaha began in the wake of the 9/11 hysteria and the "€œAxis of Evil"€ ...

Ingrid Bergman

Rush and the New Blacklist

The original “Hollywood blacklist” dates back to 1947, when 10 members of the Communist Party, present or former, invoked the Fifth Amendment before the House ...

Balancing California’s Budget Before it Falls Into the Ocean

California must be the most geographically diverse state in the Union. From Mount Shasta to Death Valley, from Big Sur to Yosemite, we have everything. If you"€™re homesick for ...

Forgetting the Alamo

"€œRacial incident mars high school game,"€ San Antonio's KSAT reported March 5. "€œSchool district, students apologize."€ What now, you ask wearily? Another (fake) ...

Zooey Deschanel

Invisible Children

My friends became humanitarians this week. They shared a 30-minute video with me on Facebook and Tweeted about a Ugandan war criminal after seeing Zooey Deschanel do the same ...

The Magyars”€™ Revenge

All of the chatter about the euro obscures another important news item out of the mother continent: the reaction in Europe and the United States to the new Hungarian Constitution ...

Have AIDS, Will Travel

English taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the nation's gaiety had been greatly augmented.  The BBC proclaimed joyous tidings"€”"€œFree HIV ...

Tehran Comes to Hollywood

The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival awards, the Best Foreign ...

Obama’s Remaking of America

Anyone who believes America’s culture wars are behind her should have started out Friday reading The Washington Times. The headlines on the three top stories on page one ...

Syria’s False Revolution

A couple of weeks ago I wrote in this here mag about Syria. I played it safe. My point was that Assad was not as bad as what may come after him. I now know better. In the long ...

Keep Your Ovaries Out of Our Wallets

The wombs of America's women are in the spotlight once again. At a mock hearing arranged by DC Democrats in February, a lantern-jawed 30-year-old law student named Sandra Fluke ...

Marco Rubio

Who is Marco Rubio? “€¨The Man Who Would Be Vice President

With electoral successes in Arizona and Michigan, Mitt Romney’s accession to the Republican nomination is all but concluded. Barring an unforeseen misstep the nomination is ...

A Modest Secessionist Proposal

I attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC's Politics and Prose Bookstore on February 17. After Tim and Pat's informative presentations, the ...


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