When four Soviet diplomats were captured by jihadis in Beirut in 1985, the Russians returned the favor by capturing, castrating, and butchering a close relative of a Hezbollah ...
In the face of global hysteria bordering on madness I have to take a deep breath and grit my teeth to humbly offer a few temperate words. I write not in defense of Walter Palmer, ...
Of the 2.2 million Americans in prison right now, about half are there for drug-related offenses. It's a tricky number to determine because felonies such as murder, assault, ...
Among the measures demanded of Greece by its creditors in return for yet another pretense that its debt is actually performing and therefore does not have to be written off, I ...
I have signed an affidavit for a hearing this week in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was to my knowledge married to Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who later became head of that ...
Playboy once asked author Ray Bradbury why science fiction was the "purview of young men." His response is worth recalling now that Ellen Pao has resigned as Reddit's CEO ...
Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were to blame and then the Americans. Now it's ...
In the classic Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze," Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregory asks Holmes, "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my ...
Over the past few years I don"t know how many hours I"ve wasted reading articles in newspapers about the Greek debt crisis. It isn"t as if I could have affected it in ...
An Asian dude walks into a bar. "Pour me a jigger, nigger," he says to the black bartender. "Come on, man," the bartender responds, "that's not cool." The ...
There’s nothing to add about the clowns in Brussels and Athens but a Yogi Berra pearl, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The Greek drama will go on and on until the ...
Rolling Stone has had a tough time lately. First, the collapse of the UVA rape story destroyed any semblance of credibility the magazine once enjoyed. Subsequently, Rolling ...
Here's another set of polarities to accompany previous concepts such as Fringe versus Core and High/Low versus Middle that are useful in grasping why some things in modern America ...
The four Mad Max movies are nominally post-apocalyptic, although their explanations for the end of civilization keeps mutating as the budgets expand, from the decline of morality ...
A few days ago I received an e-mail from my British bank about my US$ account in Jersey. I have this account in Jersey because my mainland branch did not allow me to have such an ...
Despite the ceaseless yippety-yap one hears about “white privilege,” the glaringly obvious privilege currently denied to white Americans is the privilege to feel OK ...
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