Stéphane Hessel: From Resistance to Indignance

Late last year, a small book by a ninety-three-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of France's bestseller list. Stéphane Hessel's Indignez-Vous! (Be Indignant!) sold ...

Is Obama Leaving the Left Behind?

The day that President Obama departed for Arizona to address the nation on the Tucson massacre, Washington was abuzz. Would he take the line of the hard left and call out the ...

Clarence Dupnik

The Worst Sheriff in America

There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend’s horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was ...

Republic of Hysteria

hysteria"€”conduct or an outbreak of conduct exhibiting unmanageable fear or emotional excess in individuals or groups [fr. Gk. hystera womb] "€”Webster’s Third New ...

On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian Assange

We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. "€”Benjamin Franklin When a journalist disappears in Russia or is murdered in Iraqi ...

How Long Must Okinawans Wait?

Washington officials continue to ignore the residents of Okinawa, a small island south of Japan. A poll from last summer revealed that over 70% of Okinawans want America's Futenma ...

Poisonous Politics

On Feb. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a loner, fired his .32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of Miami. Five feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the ...

Mark Twain and his friend John Lewis in 1903

Huckleberry Finn and the Whitewashing of American History

By its editor's count, 219 "€œniggers"€ have been expunged from a reprint of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that’s being foisted on our humiliatingly ...

English Defence League: Defending the Rainbow Against Extreme Islam

The English Defence League (EDL) is a white-power sect of the British National Party that hates Jews, gays, and blacks but REALLY hates Muslims. In short, they"€™re Nazis. ...

Tennis Legend Gardnar Mulloy: Still Serving at 97

I do not have many friends who are 97, but tennis legend Gardnar Mulloy is one of them. It is not clear why I should be so lucky to know him, nor why I should have had the ...

Chicago on the Potomac

No matter how you rearrange President Obama’s inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza. Ready for the latest topping on this ...

Requiem for a Patriot

“Conservative Tycoon ... Dies at 95,” said the New York Times headline on New Year’s Eve about the death of Roger Milliken. Clearly, the headline writer did not ...

Last Month in Israel: Bagellnacht Rising?

In Israel these days, about half of the Jews"€”the ones who say Arabs are no big problem"€”are having big problems with the other half of the Jews who say the Arabs are a very ...

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger’s Fakepolitik

Henry Kissinger should emulate Old Marley's ghost, which "€œfloated out upon the bleak, dark night"€ from the chambers of Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. It was a gentle, necessary ...

FOX News Reconstructs Conservative History

FOX News has been running a series on the conservative movement and recently released a DVD showing what purports to be the definitive picture of the movement's progress. I have a ...

Who Owns the Future?

“That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow.” So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Every ...


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