The Talk: Nonblack Version

There is much talk about "the talk." "Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons," Denisa R. Superville of the ...

After the Trauma

We used to joke about PTSD in the army. We used to call it the "€œnew backache,"€ meaning something doctors couldn"€™t prove but would get you out of work. Malingerers ...

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum, I Hate Your Face

Rick Santorum has been the Republican primary season's Surprise Moral Warrior. He has already won eleven states, and depending on how he performs in Wisconsin tomorrow, he may ...

Mario Monti

Italy’s Slow Suicide

I never cease to be amazed at how foreign newspapers, especially American or British ones, fail to report the truth about Italian politics. Since I moved here in 1998, I cannot ...

Abu Qatada

Welfare Fraud: Billions for Zeros

While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril's way in Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon perhaps elsewhere, they must find great comfort knowing that back in ...

Mick Jagger

Who Breaks a Cockroach on a Wheel?

A scandal has raged this past week in England involving racially insensitive Tweets that landed the racially insensitive Tweeter behind bars. Liam Stacey was targeted and caged ...

Trayvon Martin

Trayvonnosaurus Rex

According to the police report of his fatal shooting on the night of February 26, Trayvon Martin stood exactly six feet tall. In death, he has become a hundred times larger. I ...

Toulouse: The Dark Side of Diversity

As an act of pure evil it was difficult to match. After dragging the 8-year-old by her hair across a schoolyard, the killer put a 9 mm pistol to the girl’s head and pulled ...

Mohammed Zahir Shah

Af-gone-istan

My fascination with Afghanistan"€”especially the area now called Nuristan but originally Kafiristan"€”was first sparked by watching The Man Who Would Be King at Grauman's ...

The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville

Rising inequality “is the defining issue of our time,” said President Obama in his Osawatomie speech that echoed the “New Nationalism” address Theodore ...

Boering Our Way to Victory

Back in the days of $16 barrels of oil (it really was that low only a decade ago) when all the brouhaha began in the wake of the 9/11 hysteria and the "€œAxis of Evil"€ ...

Ingrid Bergman

Rush and the New Blacklist

The original “Hollywood blacklist” dates back to 1947, when 10 members of the Communist Party, present or former, invoked the Fifth Amendment before the House ...

Balancing California’s Budget Before it Falls Into the Ocean

California must be the most geographically diverse state in the Union. From Mount Shasta to Death Valley, from Big Sur to Yosemite, we have everything. If you"€™re homesick for ...

Forgetting the Alamo

"€œRacial incident mars high school game,"€ San Antonio's KSAT reported March 5. "€œSchool district, students apologize."€ What now, you ask wearily? Another (fake) ...

Zooey Deschanel

Invisible Children

My friends became humanitarians this week. They shared a 30-minute video with me on Facebook and Tweeted about a Ugandan war criminal after seeing Zooey Deschanel do the same ...

The Magyars”€™ Revenge

All of the chatter about the euro obscures another important news item out of the mother continent: the reaction in Europe and the United States to the new Hungarian Constitution ...


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