If you find yourself asking, “Who cares?” when pop culture is discussed, the answer is, “Everyone but you.” As Nick Gillespie once said to me, ...
Whenever a colleague asks for voting advice, I have one stock answer"vote for whoever doesn’t have commercials with children. Whichever candidate trots out the tykes is ...
Eighteen states have no “hate crimes” legislation. (In diversity parlance, these states are “Hate Crimes Non-Inclusive.”) Another two dodge the bullet by ...
Am I alone in suspecting that most fallacious arguments"those tedious rules of the rhetorical road"were cooked up by stuck-up mediocrities to keep their betters from ...
Only in America can white people organize an event intended to mock poor Southern whites, have black people crying that it's racist against blacks, and then have white people ...
Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World depicts an ideal pleasure drug, a hangover-free tranquilizer called soma that the totalitarian government freely distributed ...
Only last week, I railed against the masses’ naïve and patronizing compulsion to embrace dubious lower-class “heroes” such as Cleveland’s Charles ...
Country singer George Jones, who to my ears had the greatest voice ever recorded, died on Friday. A genius of phrasing and nuance, Jones had a stratospheric voice that captured ...
For two millennia, the birth of Christ has been seen as the greatest event in world history. The moment Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, God became man, and eternal ...
Every so often some clown decides to call Thomas Jefferson a "racist," and other clowns let him publish the charge. The most recent clown is Paul Finkelman, a professor at ...
While the Northeast begins pulling itself out of the disaster that was hurricane Sandy, America now faces the horror of the presidential election. But another force of nature ...
False allegations about the propaganda technique known as the "Big Lie" have been repeated ad nauseam to the point where, with eye-gouging irony, it has all congealed into ...
It has to be evident to all thinking people by now that racism is the new witchcraft. Once you"re branded with the Scarlet "R," some people do not regard it as immoral ...
“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone ...
If your finger's on the pulse of the Internet, you know that Bill Murray is adored by everyone born after 1976. We love him not just for his carefree, arrogant movie persona but ...
While I was arguing about abortion recently with a pro-choice pal he said, "I just wish stupid people would stop having babies." This is a common sentiment among the smart ...