Dysfunctional Communities

The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their mausoleums. Mausolea, whatever ...

A Slow News Week

Life under Jim Snow "”€ Guilty of Bad Thoughts? "”€ Stand Your Ground stupidity "”€ Immigration bill roundup "”€ The Naked and the Bread "”€ Name that moon! "”€ Pee ...

Demographic Losers

As Radio Derb always tells you, diversity is like salt in your stew: a little improves the flavor, too much and you're in Yugoslavia "€” a nation which, just to remind you, no ...

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

They came up with a person named Jennifer Lopez, who, they told me, was famous for her ...

Miami Beach

Killed By Political Correctness

I apologize for that "€” you know how I hate to give offense. It's just that the news focus this week has been on topics of race and ...

What a Fiasco. What a Waste. What a Crime.

Stupidity is no bar to political advancement "€” How do you think we ended up with Joe ...

Edward Snowden

Raison d’État

File under the heading: "There Goes the ...

Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power

Three Horsegirls of the Apocalypse and Then Some

Stay busy, and keep your eyes on the ...

Picayune Stuff

Britain's finished. Stick a fork in ...

Why Are We There? Why Are They Here?

Perhaps one shouldn't try to distinguish between degrees of horror, but what seems to me to have been the worst ...

Barack Obama and Eric Holder

Week of Scandal

Do we deduce, then, that President Obama has been chuckling over copies of his enemies' tax ...

Charles Ramsey

The Natural Talent of Chuck Ramsey and Other Bits

If you want honest talk about race, an articulate working-class black person like Chuck Ramsey is your best ...

President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

Excessive Hurdles

I do apologize for that little spasm of optimism ...

Jill St. John

Verderben

If that'd been me in there with the tiger, I would have wanted a free change of underwear at ...

Tom Lehrer

Big Stories

The U.S.A. is a country, not a ...

Gang of Eight

Chaos, Catastrophe, Curtilage, and Custard

When our federal legislators are not planning to open up our country to a hundred million or two fourth-grade dropouts from Mexico and Somali goat-herders, what else are they ...


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