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Court Jester

Now that the weakest Wimbledon since 1973—the year of the boycott—is over, a few thoughts about Pam Shriver’s recent revelations that her coach Don Candy, deceased, was also her lover. Candy was 50 at the time, while ...

Sink the New World Order Tax!

Last Friday, in a triumph for transnationalism, 136 nations, including the U.S., agreed to mandate a global corporate income tax for all nations that will not be allowed to fall below 15%. "Virtually the entire global ...

Faded Prestige

The worst enemy of the West is itself, and the same goes for our democracy. We are so arrogantly certain of our survival and superiority, we in the Western democracies, that we never give a moment’s thought to how we ...

Wag the Turban

Our Peace Prize president lobbed some harsh words toward Iran in his long-winded pep rally last Tuesday night: Ending the Iraq war has allowed us to strike decisive blows against our enemies.  From Pakistan to Yemen, ...

The Breakers, Palm Beach

The Grand Hotel Preservation Society

It seems all of the changes taking place these days are for the worse. I am hardly a Miss Havisham to say it would be better that some things"€”especially good hotels"€”remain unchanged. The Breakers at Palm Beach is ...

The Two-Party Pleasure Ship

In the December issue of The American Conservative, Gary L. Gregg defends the Electoral College as an integral part of the “Founders’ design.” Gregg goes after the proponents of the National Popular Vote plan, a group ...

Los Angeles, CA

Is Los Angeles Doomed?

I’m writing on Monday night, so when you read this, you’ll know more than I did about how badly the Los Angeles fires flared back up during Tuesday’s forecasted windstorm. The coming annihilation of Los Angeles has ...

Resurrection of Christ by Rafael

Fundamental Contradictions About Easter

"€œWhat day did Jesus die on?"€ my friend asked. "€œIt was on Christmas, right?"€ He wasn’t pulling my leg. We both grew up in a vipers’ tangle of Southern Baptist fundamentalism, but obviously he was ...

Generation Snowflake

Israel seems pretty well able to defend itself; and her enemies don't seem very ...

Zac Goldsmith

Go, Goldsmith

I once tried to bribe Zac Goldsmith with a 50-pound note, but he didn’t bite, even back then. He was around 15 years old, and the reason for the hush money was purely self-preservation. He was already good-looking and I ...

Ashley Judd

Portrait of the Week

HOME The City of New York agreed to pay Occupy Wall Street $365K for stomping all over its book tent when the NYPD raided Zuccotti Park in November 2011. ... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked the FBI to ...

Yes-Men and Strongmen

The only good news after the massacres in Ukraine is that so many ugly behemoth superyachts have been seized and will not be polluting the seas this summer. There is no more horrible sight than an oligarch’s superyacht on ...

Barack Obama

Hate Speech Makes a Comeback

Well, it sure didn’t take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse. After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 13, ...

Pope Benedict XVI

The Pope Goes Global

On Monday the Vatican released a document with the unwieldy title “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority.” Although The Bible counsels true ...

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