Everybody’s talking about Ann Coulter’s latest attention-getting stunt – she’s better at that than Paris Hilton, albeit less talented. What gets me, however, is that Coulter is supposed to be a wit, but Dorothy Parker she ain’t. What she said was this: “It turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I’m kind of … [Read More]

The idea that gay people are an oppressed minority would be laughable if so many otherwise intelligent people didn’t take it so seriously. Just look at what happened to Tim Hardaway, when, during an interview, he said “I hate gay people.” The iron fist of political correctness wasn’t long in coming down, full force, on his head. The former Miami Heat … [Read More]

In the Museum of Discarded Notions and Laughable Nostrums, surely the concept of “national greatness” deserves a special place. It was all the rage in neoconservative circles circa 1997, when David Brooks, then an editorialist for the Weekly Standard, penned his ode to the sense of “grandeur” and America’s imperial greatness as embodied, he thought, in the Library of Congress building. … [Read More]