Every nation has, in its collective psyche, a special place for its bloodiest war: a place warmed with intense emotions and turbulent with unresolved"probably unresolvable"controversies. For Americans that place is occupied by the Civil War, the 150th anniversary of whose ending in April ...
It got terrific reviews, even the Guardian gave it a good review. It didn't sell at all, I don't know ...
Pronouncements from the Vatican calling for more welfare socialism, apparently confusing private charity, which is a Christian virtue, with state ...
Here it comes, the big seven-oh. Next Wednesday to be exact; around 6:45 GMT, to be even more exact. It was quite an entrance, as I recorded in We Are Doomed. I was actually born around breakfast time on a Sunday morning, at a nursing home behind St. Matthew's church in the small English country ...
It's hard to blame foreigners for taking advantage of our stupidity, but ... why are we so ...
Bill Nye the Science Guy gave a commencement speech at Rutgers on Sunday. Reading the speech left me thinking that if this is America's designated Science Guy, I can be the nation's designated swimsuit model. Up to now I have had only the slightest, vaguest awareness of Bill Nye. Readers have ...
From 2001 to 2013 more than 1.6 million people from predominantly Muslim countries were issued green cards for permanent settlement in the ...
All proper congratulations to David Cameron, elected last week as Prime Minister of Britain on the Conservative Party ticket. I can"t say I repose any great hopes that Cameron will actually conserve anything; but then, Britain's not my country, so the stakes for me are merely tribal (the ...
Normal people feel there's something a bit bizarre, and slightly comical, about transsexuals, and no amount of propaganda is going to expunge ...
