When libertarians, paleocons, neocons, and Republicans are confronted with a shrieking liberal they usually shoo it away. That's easy if you don"t live in New York City, ...
New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed ...
After leaving dinner with my in-laws here in Brooklyn on Monday, I saw two men standing on the curb looking very righteous. One was Asian and the other was white, which in this ...
In Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character time-travels back to his old public-school classroom. "I always felt my schoolmates were idiots," he declares. On cue, a staring, ...
Does being an early childhood educator turn you into a meddlesome nitwit, or are meddlesome nitwits instinctively drawn to careers in early childhood education? It's a tough ...
I first encountered the word "hatefact" while drinking with someone"either "shock jock" Anthony Cumia at a grimy Midtown bar or VDARE's erudite Peter Brimelow ...
A couple of hard-luck stories: First story: Randy Johnson of Marion, Indiana was laid off from his job at a paper-products company in 1995 along with 200 other employees. The ...
Mayor Bloomberg is a diminutive egomaniac who wants to foist his superiority complex on us through legislation. He makes our lunches, forbids us from eating salt, and uses our ...
People tend to embrace whatever political ideology justifies their existence. Since I feel like a working-class Tonka Toy born with a 350-cubic-inch, 4-barrel-carb, V8 brain under ...
Americans are nice people. We are generous and open-hearted. Our nation is big and lush, and most of it is empty. (Our mean population density of 83 per square mile ranks us ...
I love tobacco. I have been a pipe and cigar smoker since my 16th birthday. (My father had offered to buy me both if I abstained from cigarettes until that date). On that ...
As a large and furious demonstration was under way outside and inside the Capitol in Madison last week, Barack Obama invited in a TV camera crew from Milwaukee and proceeded to ...
"We"re coming back," beamed current Detroit mayor and former Detroit Pistons All-Star Dave Bing last Tuesday as he launched a privately funded $10-million ad campaign ...
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 ...
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 ...
There's something to be said for the almost universal leftist tendency to ignore unpleasant facts in favor of smearing their opponents as mentally ill. Not only is it far easier ...