On August 2, 2014, the Obama Administration allowed the first of two American health care workers who had contracted the Ebola virus back into the U.S. There is no logical reason to have done this; in fact its illogic is so great as regards ...
It was the Sun King, Louis XIV, who uttered the immortal edict of classical despotism: "L"Ãtat, c"est moi!" There is some debate amongst historians as to whether Louis ever uttered these precise words"though it's rather ...
In the early 1980s I became familiar with a cartoonist whom I considered to be one of the cleverest men I had read in a very long time. I collected as many of his pieces as possible. When I showed a friend his work, however, she diffidently sniffed, ...
When lawmen break the law, there is no law. During a fortnight when the American establishment wasn"t handing out machine guns to heavily medicated dissociative personalities with self-reported head wounds or rounding up someone else's ...
If there is one thing Americans love even more than a revolution, it is a mystery. Hence, the news from from Ukraine this past week got shoved aside in favor of the baffling case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Unfortunately, as soon as the flight ...
As the Academy prepares to celebrate some of the most historically inaccurate dramatizations in recent memory, let us turn from a year of “Based on a True Story” films to a review of 2013’s more substantive documentaries. Unlike ...
This St. Valentine's Day it is estimated that around $17 billion dollars will be spent on greeting cards, overpriced flowers, and dinners served by sanctimonious waiters. In more than a few cases these funds would be better gambled away at a casino; ...
One of modern life's great canards is that women were historically shut out of the workplace. Yet from Hollywood to London, there have long been prominent ladies in the office if they wanted to be there. Many did not, choosing to raise families when ...
When I first heard that the newest mayor of New York's first action in office was to denude the city of horse-drawn carriages, I thought it was probably a joke. I figured some card over at Fox News or The Wall Street Journal had taken an obscure ...
There is often no difference between entertainment and politics. Consider recent statements by Phil Robertson, television star of the program Duck Dynasty, which airs on the A&E (formerly Arts & Entertainment) Network. During an interview ...
Turkey is no longer a secular society. In less than a decade Prime Minister ErdoÄan and his Justice and Development Party have effected a radical change in Turkey's political dynamic that has occurred largely without notice by most casual Western ...
So Obama wasn’t aware we’d spent years spying on our ally Germany. Color me unsurprised. Throughout a career as community activist and several campaigns, he apparently didn’t know that numerous people and publications attributed ...
