Country singer George Jones, who to my ears had the greatest voice ever recorded, died on Friday. A genius of phrasing and nuance, Jones had a stratospheric voice that captured ...
For two millennia, the birth of Christ has been seen as the greatest event in world history. The moment Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, God became man, and eternal ...
Every so often some clown decides to call Thomas Jefferson a "racist," and other clowns let him publish the charge. The most recent clown is Paul Finkelman, a professor at ...
While the Northeast begins pulling itself out of the disaster that was hurricane Sandy, America now faces the horror of the presidential election. But another force of nature ...
False allegations about the propaganda technique known as the "Big Lie" have been repeated ad nauseam to the point where, with eye-gouging irony, it has all congealed into ...
It has to be evident to all thinking people by now that racism is the new witchcraft. Once you"re branded with the Scarlet "R," some people do not regard it as immoral ...
“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone ...
If your finger's on the pulse of the Internet, you know that Bill Murray is adored by everyone born after 1976. We love him not just for his carefree, arrogant movie persona but ...
While I was arguing about abortion recently with a pro-choice pal he said, "I just wish stupid people would stop having babies." This is a common sentiment among the smart ...
In the years approximately 500 BC to 500 AD throughout the planet, various societies agreed in some concept of a flat Earth. This was obvious from mere visual observation, and ...
I share my Taki colleagues" dismay and disgust regarding the fly-by-night carnival I"m obliged to refer to"in accordance with his mother's stated wishes"as the ...
As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society's national meeting in April, featuring wall-to-wall denunciations of "America and Her Detractors," I wondered whether ...
Slaving and whaling dominated New England shipping prior to the Civil War. When the slave trade became illegal in 1808, fewer profits rolled into Yankee coffers. As slave-trade ...
I am a pessimist, for reasons I have expatiated upon at book length. In that book’s first chapter, I distinguished two usages of the key word: I’m using the word ...
My executive editor at a Florida magazine, Hardy Burt, informed me at lunch one day, “God is a girl!” This was after his first vodka martini. I can’t imagine ...
Despite the fact that we’ve given peace several chances only to be repeatedly disappointed, there’s always some wide-eyed new group willing to give peace yet another chance. ...
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