In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to murder author Salman Rushdie for blasphemy. Within a few days, professional writers convened in ...
Sixties rock deity Jim "The Lizard King" Morrison's bloated corpse was found in a Parisian bathtub in 1971, but apparently his soul had been writhing in restless torment ...
"What do we want?" Um.... "When do we want it?" Er.... Well, knock me down with a fire extinguisher (preferably dropped from a serious height). British students ...
Funny things happen when you write for the public prints. One of them is that deep-browed pieces you labored over for days, with library visits and lengthy phone conversations ...
Julian Assange of Wikileaks infamy was arrested in England today. But it isn"t for espionage"his Interpol "red notice" made no mention of the hundreds of thousands ...
Everyone is a spy now. The state has always spied on its citizens, but the lens is turning the other way. For that, we are indebted to Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and the sources ...
As a history buff, I have tried to come to terms with the “surprise” Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. That lugubrious anniversary"December 7th"is fast ...
The pope said that condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV is "a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more humane sexuality." This admission is the ...
When William McGowan finished his award-winning book Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism, the New York Times Book Review refused to ...
Last week, in her inimitably cornpone, hokey, chipper, toothy, gosh-darnit, you’re-darn-tootin’ manner, Sarah Palin slammed Michelle Obama's scheme to slim the ...
I can vaguely remember a time when there were no security checks whatever before getting on a commercial jet. You showed your ticket and walked onboard. When was that? I’m ...
Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American ...
It used to be a big deal to have a college education. Back in 1960, about 8% of the population had one, and this chosen few deserved their popularity in the job market. The baby ...
This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic ...
Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "quants" for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"m ...
Otto von Bismarck is said to have proposed the following solution to the Irish Question: Move all the Irish to Holland and all the Dutch to Ireland. With their industriousness, ...
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