The Spectacle
- A Government Shutdown? Bah Hambug
- The Best in Japanese Poker Poetry
- Show Me the Value of Tax Incentives
- Christian Savior as Political Prop
- A Beer Poster Featuring an Image of Santa? Call the Authorities!
- FDA Delay Costs the Lives of Smokers
- Alaska Dems ‘Discover’ a Crucial Uncounted Ballot
- Marian the Librarian Would Be Appalled
- Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- An Opportunity to Make Government Debt More Transparent
- Memories: Goldwater and Kennedy — 20 and 55 Years On
- Honk If You Dislike Car Tariffs
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A Shambles in Texas
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This Is No Drill
The first bomb fell a little before morning colors and by the time the attack was over, less than three hours later, the U.S. Navy had lost almost all of what it considered its capital ships. These were the battleships, one of which had blown up when a Japanese bomb penetrated a magazine where powder […]
A Just-So Story: How This Brooklyn Rabbi Got Into Country Music
In my last article I wrote on the need for climate change and diversity on American college and university campuses to counter and offset the truly “McCarthyite” suppression of ideas and opinions that now poison the contemporary American college and university experience. Inter alia, I also discussed some of my interest in country music. And, yes, no list can be complete […]
The Weekly Standard’s Suicide
Reports indicate that The Weekly Standard soon joins Life, Look, Calling All Girls, Hit Parader, George, and Oui on the great newsstand in the sky. (Perhaps loyal “readers” find Oui on some lower-elevation newsstand.) Death by internet seems a tempting obit but it does not capture the self-inflicted nature of the magazine’s demise. Like the […]
Comey and the FISA Warrant Hillary Bought
James Comey uncorked the whopper earlier this year that he still “didn’t know for a fact” Hillary Clinton financed the infamous dossier of Christopher Steele — an epic lie reminiscent of his denial, leaked through James Clapper and other stooges, that the FBI spied on Trump Tower, even as warrants to spy on Trump Tower […]
A Birthday On Hold
Sunday, November 25, 2018 It was my birthday. I’m old. I lay in bed looking at my swimming pool and then started to put on my bathing suit. Mary, our spectacularly good nurse who takes care of my wife on Saturdays and Sundays, came running — yes, running — into my room. “Miz Alex,” she […]
Democrats Are Just Too Darned Smart
At the dawn of the information age, when dumb terminals began appearing on desks and the din of dot matrix printers deafened all and sundry, every enterprise of consequence employed a misanthrope charged with the care and feeding of these machines. Occasionally, this reclusive individual reluctantly submitted to questions about the output of the equipment. […]
Anniversary of a Failed Progressive Experiment
Sacramento During my first trip to Salt Lake City years ago, I wandered into a nondescript little bar and — forgetting about Utah’s arcane drinking laws — tried to order a whisky. The bar wasn’t open to the public, I was told, but was for members only. I could, however, fill out a membership application, […]
Poll: Dems, GOP Disagree Profoundly on Healthcare Solutions
Americans unite on identifying the major problem facing the nation but divide profoundly on the solution. We agree, and then we agree to disagree. Exit polling for the 2018 midterms found voters citing healthcare far more than any other issue, even the economy, as their number one concern. But a new poll by Gallup indicates […]