Living with Savages

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, ...

Let Them Drink Coke

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 ...

Dial 911 for Mommy

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 ...

Woody Allen in Annie Hall

Too Stupid for Words

In Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character time-travels back to his old public-school classroom. "€œI always felt my schoolmates were idiots,"€ he declares. On cue, a staring, ...

Early Childhood Reeducation Camps

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 ...

10 Hatefacts for Those Who Hate Facts

I first encountered the word "€œhatefact"€ while drinking with someone"€”either "€œshock jock"€ Anthony Cumia at a grimy Midtown bar or VDARE's erudite Peter Brimelow ...

Killing the West With Kindness

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 ...

10 Laws That Would Instantly Improve New York

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 ...

Finding My Personal Political Pigeonhole

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 ...

Suckers of the World

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 ...

Smokeasy, California!

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 ...

Barack Hussein Alinsky

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 ...

Hoping Against Hope in Detroit

"€œWe"€™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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diagnosing “€œPassover Syndrome”€ Among White Liberals

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 ...


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