Ex-Politicians Shouldn”€™t Talk

Politicians, especially those who climbed to the top, should disappear when they leave office. Deprived of spokesmen and advisors, they are bound to reveal character flaws they ...

Ban Ki-moon

Body-Waxing at the United Nations

Remember the old cliché about someone who is perpetually vacillating between a necktie and an open shirt? Or the one about the man who is noticeable for being completely ...

Campus Witch Hunts

Recently at a local college whose name I will not divulge, an act of "€œracial vandalism"€ occurred which the administration is naturally investigating. The college newspaper ...

Oil v. Justice in Libya

I haven’t got that much time left, but I’d gladly give 10 years of my life to see that homicidal maniac Gaddafi strung up from a palm tree alongside his wart-hog sons, ...

Make Love, Not War

In the penultimate chapter of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, our narrator is reviewing a list of the ships mustered in orbit around his base planet preparatory to a ...

Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats

First lady Michelle Obama said, “Let’s Move!” Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally? Faced with stifling debt, ...

Lara Logan

Why Egypt Is Silent

So Egypt is over. Oh, we"€™ll hear snippets and see some snapshots, but make no mistake, Egypt is over. Why, you ask? Is it because peace is restored? (Hardly.) Is it because ...

Barack Hussein Alinsky

As a large and furious demonstration was under way outside and inside the Capitol in Madison last week, Barack Obama invited in a TV camera crew from Milwaukee and proceeded to ...

Schooling Wisconsin’s Teachers

Watching events unspool in the Wisconsin State Capitol over the past few days, one would think the world is ending. In a very specific sense, it is"€”or at least I hope so. It ...

Spirit of 1848

It began when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself alight last December 17th in provincial Tunisia. Bouazizi was not demanding fair elections, free ...

Anwar Sadat

Reshuffling the Deck in Egypt

(On October 6, 1981, Fabrice Moussus was the only cameraman who remained on his feet to film Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's assassination and, thus, Vice President Hosni ...

Michelle Obama: First Lady of Junk Science

While her husband may have paid lip service to ending the abuse of science for “politics or ideology,” first lady Michelle Obama gave herself a super-sized waiver. Two ...

Ghosts of the Truman Doctrine

In the last few days I"€™ve run across two authoritative statements by neocon journalists which provide a new American "€œFreedom Doctrine for Arab democracy."€ One ...

David Cameron and Boris Johnson

Cammy and Boris Scoff Buns

Once upon a time at a famous school in La-La Land, Cammy Cam and Boris Bunter were sitting under an oak tree plaiting yellow ribbons and scoffing buns. "€œPenny for your ...

Will Multiculturalism End Europe?

Multiculturalism has “totally failed,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “State multiculturalism has had disastrous results,” says Britain’s ...

Politicians and Freebies

First it was Tunisia's Zein El Abidine Ben Ali. Then it was Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Ousted by their own people? Yes, but here in France, they will be remembered as the ...


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