The Memorial Day Mobs

Though few Americans realize it, Memorial Day has roots that are partially racial in nature. It was originally called “Decoration Day” and was first celebrated by a group ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Down-Low Under the Rainbow?: Jesse Jackson Accused of Gay Harassment

Upon hearing that an openly (and screamingly!) gay black male ex-employee of Rainbow/PUSH had filed a complaint against Jesse Jackson and his organization for discrimination and ...

Araki

No Sex Please, We’re Japanese

Last week was the 70th anniversary of the Café de Paris bombing during the London Blitz of 1940-41. By March of 1941 most Londoners had learned to take shelter underground when ...

Blacks Rape Preteen Hispanic in Texas, Whites Get Blamed

Over one cruelly protracted evening last November in the tiny Texas town of Cleveland"€”up in the ragged piney woods fifty miles northeast of the giant flying-cockroach ...

Obama Makes an Exception for American Exceptionalism

Obama's State of the Union speech was a smashing rhetorical success, as the New York Post conceded in its editorial the next morning, because it expressed the ...

Poisonous Politics

On Feb. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a loner, fired his .32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of Miami. Five feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the ...

Mark Twain and his friend John Lewis in 1903

Huckleberry Finn and the Whitewashing of American History

By its editor's count, 219 "€œniggers"€ have been expunged from a reprint of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that’s being foisted on our humiliatingly ...

Internet Access is Not a “Civil Right”

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our “access” to x, y or z, what they’re really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As ...

Christian Rout in the Culture War

A Democratic Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov. 2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San Francisco values on the armed forces of the United ...

Boeing Boeing Gone

You can fly safely this Christmas knowing that hundreds of federal agencies and their private contractors are working around the clock to keep the hijackers and bombers out of ...

Can Democracy Cope?

For those who have read about or vaguely remember the stolid British tribe of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, which held out in its “finest hour,” last ...

The Secular Fatwa on Julian Assange

In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to murder author Salman Rushdie for blasphemy. Within a few days, professional writers convened in ...

David Broder, Obama, and War With Iran

David Broder’s recent observations about our Peace Prize President have created a stir. In his controversial October 31 Washington Post op-ed “How Obama might ...

Broder’s Brainstorm

Though Obama “may lose control of Congress,” says columnist David Broder, he “can still storm back to win a second term in 2012.” How does Broder suggest ...

Police Provoke Violence in France

Congress shall make no law…abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "€“First Amendment, US ...

All Things Considered, Some Things Forbidden: NPR Fires Juan Williams

Last Friday, separate officials in Dubai and England intercepted packages containing bombs in the cargo sections of two USA-bound planes. Each bomb was deemed capable of ...


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