I am on Facebook and my daughter, 24, doesn’t like it; she thinks I should act my age and not hang out on a website created for high school and college kids and recent graduates — never mind that I am, among other things, a college reviewer by trade, or that I was thinking of doing an article about the phenomenon. … [Read More]

As we entered the fifth day of 24/7 Benazir Bhutto coverage on cable news, it started to dawn on me that the MSM imagined that they were reporting on some kind of grand tragedy – the democratic hope for Pakistan, struck down by a terrorist while bravely defying a dictator! The American public seemed to have jumped on board, apparently interested … [Read More]

If you want to appreciate just how hopelessly entangled America has become in the fate of modern day Israel and Zionism, you may want to take a look at an eye-opening article of December 5th in the Jerusalem Post. It is entitled “Annapolis—A True Zionist Victory” by Dr. M.K. Ephraim Sneh. He is a former Deputy Defense Minister of Israel and … [Read More]

Sid is correct to call attention to the often dishonest application of “right” and “left” categories in describing an American political situation in which traditional ideological labels are less and less useful. In the US the “right”-“left” labels are applied to two parties, dripping with public funds, which organize periodic elections legitimating a centralized managerial state. In recent years these … [Read More]

Kudos to Justin for giving us the heads-up about the potential Bloomberg acquisition of the bankrupt enterprise called the U.S.A. However, given the prospect that the race might come down to Clinton vs. McCain (or anyone EXCEPT Ron Paul), I see the positive side of a Bloomberg in the race: It might help to split the “Evil” vote. [Read More]

A year or so ago the notorious paleo Catholic John Zmirak sent me a notice about a political discussion to take place at the Columbia Law School, and the name of the moderator, Lorenzo Albacete, caught my attention. A magazine called Triumph had been an important part of my political, intellectual, and even spiritual life in the late ‘60s and early … [Read More]