One of the least gratifying pictures I have had the bad luck to view on television this week for the portly figure of Richard Perle expounding his vile views in The Case for War. Even worse, it was on public television, which as everyone knows is paid for by our tax dollars. The heavy-lidded Perle is hardly photogenic, although unlike most … [Read More]

You’ve probably never heard of the hard-edged brand of low-priced bourbon called Jeremiah Weed, and for darn good reason: It is almost unavailable, except on Air Force bases. But U.S. fighter pilots go through the stuff like airplane fuel, and some concede it tastes pretty much the same. As one airman wrote online of the drink: “Weed is one of those … [Read More]

In one of the more grotesque episodes in the ongoing slide of “conservative” opinion into nonsense and ideology, Stephen Schwartz, in a commentary for National Review Online, offered a flattering depiction of onetime Soviet Communist leader Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). The loser in a power struggle with Stalin after the death of Lenin in 1924, Trotsky in exile, first in Norway and … [Read More]

“’Morning, ma’am,” I greeted her, wishing I had a cap to doff but making up for it with a broad smile. “Why, good ’mornin’, son! How ya’ feelin’?” answered the sprightly little black church lady, well past retirement age and wearing a beautiful white hat with little lavender-colored flowers. So began a simply beautiful Sunday, the first real day of spring … [Read More]

"The unexpected gift of the invasion of Iraq has really been more than bin Laden ever dreamed was possible." —Michael Scheuer, former head of the bin Laden tracking unit at the CIA.   Professor Paul Wolfowitz is back in the news, big time. He has finally emerged from his bolthole at the World Bank. It took a sex and corruption … [Read More]

New York— Larry Ellison, the chief executive of the software giant Oracle and the world’s 11th richest man, according to Forbes magazine, is not imbued by an ounce of grace or elementary good manners. He has constructed a basketball court on board his megayacht, the latter a monstrosity which pollutes more than a battleship and serves no other purpose than as … [Read More]

One, two, three, four, Wolfowitz has got to go! Five, six, seven, eight, one more day will be too late. As the wise man said, once a crook and a liar, always a crook and a liar. Wolfowitz conspired with Douglas Feith to fabricate proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction aimed at us. After the greatest disaster in … [Read More]

President Bush has called Christ his most important moral teacher.  Following this lead, the current administration regards itself as deeply religious and many of its members are very open about their faith.  Yet, in spite of the abundant professions of piety, it is difficult to avoid the feeling that something is wrong somewhere.  The source of the unease is obvious:  Christ … [Read More]

Life is full of coincidences so fortuitous that it is hard to believe that they are simply random.  Yesterday, as Taki’s Top Drawer published the final installment of my “Thoughts on the Antichrist” (click here for Part I and Part II), one of the chief “conservative” American Catholics that I had in mind while writing the articles (but whom I did … [Read More]

“Last Chance For France,” cries the London Spectator in a cover story, which means that “tout va bien” in the land of cheese. The Anglo-Saxons have been predicting the end of France since time immemorial, but if I were a Brit I’d worry more about what is taking place in my own back yard and leave the French to their mistresses, … [Read More]