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 ...

Is This Our America Anymore?

Buried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline: “Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants.” The story, however, contained social dynamite ...

Pigford at the Trough

I’m not easily shocked by politicians"€™ cynicism, dishonesty, and moral cowardice. I lived through the Clinton Administration, didn’t I? I must say, though, that ...

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 ...

Europe Before 1820: The Apex of Human History or Bangladesh?

Each time I doubt that the National Review's mavens could surpass themselves, I discover fresh evidence of their invincible ignorance. Being a man of little faith, I didn"€™t ...

Julian Assange’s Honey Trap: That’s Rape in Sweden

Julian Assange of Wikileaks infamy was arrested in England today. But it isn"€™t for espionage"€”his Interpol "€œred notice"€ made no mention of the hundreds of thousands ...

Black Swan: Hysterical, But Not Necessarily Funny

What's the most demanding sport? A 1975 Journal of Sports Medicine study by James Nicholas, an NFL, NBA, and NHL team doctor, ranked 61 sports on 18 different measures of physical ...

The Spy Who Taxed Me

Everyone is a spy now. The state has always spied on its citizens, but the lens is turning the other way. For that, we are indebted to Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and the sources ...

Arthur

Who Killed The New York Times?

When William McGowan finished his award-winning book Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism, the New York Times Book Review refused to ...

No Child’s Fat Behind: Palin Dumps on Michelle Obama’s Youth Obesity Scheme

Last week, in her inimitably cornpone, hokey, chipper, toothy, gosh-darnit, you’re-darn-tootin’ manner, Sarah Palin slammed Michelle Obama's scheme to slim the ...

All That Glitters is Not Gold (A Cautionary Tale in Two Parts)

Part II Last week I wrote about my memorable-albeit-disagreeable encounter with one Daniel C. Leghorn in Bemelman's bar at New York's Carlyle hotel. It was there where, fortified ...

European Union: R.I.P.?

When communism collapsed in Moscow, Prague and Belgrade at the end of the Cold War, ethnic nationalism surged to the surface in all three nations and tore them apart into 24 ...

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U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe Mullah

Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American ...

Giving Thanks for American Ingenuity

One of my favorite television programs is “How It’s Made” on the Science Channel. The documentary series shows “how the everyday objects people use become ...

Standing Up to the Oligarchs

Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "€œquants"€ for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"€™m ...

Bailing Out Ireland

Otto von Bismarck is said to have proposed the following solution to the Irish Question: Move all the Irish to Holland and all the Dutch to Ireland. With their industriousness, ...


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