Call me naïve, but the left's coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only thing that shocks me more is the right's suicidal cowardice. Here’s a sample of the first. The ...
In his recent syndicated column "A U.N. for the good guys," Jonah Goldberg evokes the mindset of seventeenth-century puritanism. This is entirely understandable. Much of ...
I’m notoriously mean-spirited, so please believe me: When I say I think Chris Matthews has a brain tumor, I am trying to be charitable. The MSNBC mouthpiece’s show is called ...
Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the dead since the ...
As I watched last week’s Western posturing after the Russo-Chinese veto of the UN Security Council’s resolution against Syria, Captain Renault of Casablanca fame kept coming ...
Most Americans wouldn’t know the difference between Boko Haram and Boca Raton, even though a Congressional report from November fingered the Nigerian jihadist group as an ...
So the California regency (er, Eighth Circuit Court) has sided with the homosexual lobby against the majority’s express will. This is no surprise. When judicial autocracy ...
In his new book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, master social scientist Charles Murray flavors his portrait of the widening gap between the classes with some ...
Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of ...
The thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War is rolling around, and Argentina’s leadership is starting to sound the battle cry again. Buenos Aires is already pushing for sea ...
In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward the libertarian ...
So the primary season is winding down, which is an absurdity since it barely got wound up. The moneymen decide early on who will best serve their interests, and they pay the media ...
Two lovable mobsters in Cole Porter’s musical Kiss Me, Kate sing a song with the following refrain:Brush up your Shakespeare Start quoting him now. Brush up your ...
While the Western media is filled with news of the European Union’s woes, they are strangely silent about another EU—the Eurasian Union, which bridges Eastern Europe and the ...
At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes. Then, on the instructions of ...
Our Peace Prize president lobbed some harsh words toward Iran in his long-winded pep rally last Tuesday night: Ending the Iraq war has allowed us to strike decisive blows against ...