Rosie O’Donnell is off the air, supposedly her own doing, and Don Imus is reported to be suing CBS. The outcome of any such litigation may tell if we have achieved a new era in broadcasting or if we will revert to the previous era. Regardless of what Rosie says, I believe she did not reach an agreement with ABC because … [Read More]

In August 1966, while visiting Vienna as an ABD graduate student from Yale, I chanced upon the office of Aktion-Europa, a group that would soon change its name to the Paneuropabewegung. As I learned from going to its offices on the Prinz Eugen Strasse, Aktion-Europa was an organization that defended the Habsburg dynasty. As the nephew or in one case distant … [Read More]

How about a change of pace? Iraq, the neocons, Iran, Hillary, Turkey in the EU…it’s all bad news for the foreseeable future. As far as I can tell, the only two things that haven’t changed are Wall Street greed and English snobbery. I am not an expert on the former, but when you think that 25 years ago the Dow stood … [Read More]

What fresh Hell is this? A mere seven years after Boris Yeltsin’s Pink Elephants were dispossessed of Russia’s nuclear football and something approximating political and economic stability began to reign in Russia, now Vladimir Putin the most intelligent, liberal and reliable head of state Russia has seen since Tsar Alexander II, with the possible exception of Gorbachev—has come under the cross-hairs … [Read More]

If there’s one thing that makes people happier than finding a forgotten bottle in the cupboard or a six pack in the fridge, it’s finding out that world events are dominated by an evil conspiracy. It’s hard to explain why such a discovery proves so consoling, but it does: Some 35 million people shelled out cold, hard cash to buy The … [Read More]

The immigration protest march this week gave me some food for thought. There are 800,000 British passport holders who can at any time come to the United States without a visa or subject to any controls. These Brits are all either Pakistani born and naturalized British subjects, or their sons or grandsons. Pakistani Britons travel to their ancestral land of Pakistan … [Read More]

You may have noticed that George Tenet prefers to talk about the aftermath of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, to wit, the U.S. occupation and the Iraqi insurgency. He admits that the CIA did get some things wrong—such as certifying the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when, in fact, those weapons and stockpiles had been destroyed years before, under UN … [Read More]

The Battle of Thermopylae, the subject of Zack Snyder’s animated 300, was memorialized by the Greek historian Herodotus in his Histories.  Herodotus’ purpose in writing about these events was to preserve the kleos (fame) of heroes.  What a testament to his efforts it is that over 2,000 years later Mr. Snyder portrays these heroes on the big screen. The Battle of … [Read More]

The gunsmoke at Virginia Tech had barely cleared when the reliable thunder about gun control began pealing from the New York Times editorial page and other cumuli in the leftist stratosphere. Down on terra firma, a few intrepid observers, citing the students who used their own weapons to stop a gunman at Appalachian Law School in West Virginia in 2002, … [Read More]

Justin Raimondo has written a very important article for The American Conservative. It is about the upcoming trial of two AIPAC agents who were indicted along with Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin and charged with espionage for Israel. Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman are former officials of the Israeli Lobby and as the trial nears it seems the Lobby is pulling out … [Read More]