Christopher Orlet
Last week the New York Times reported that “well over 50 million artificial Christmas trees will grace living rooms and dens this season…compared to about 30 million real trees.” If you are like me, “grace” is not a verb that…
Just in time for Christmas (or maybe Chanukah) another billionaire has pledged to leave half his fortune to charity. Not that Facebook CEO and Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” Mark Zuckerberg needed any arm-twisting. He was — he texts…
Leave it to our urban high school principals — those stout-hearted, heroic figures, daily battling the forces of ignorance and cynicism — to come up with a novel approach to solve our nation’s public education woes. Yes, I said solve….
Once again, I must take exception to my hometown being named America’s most violent city. And when I find out who’s responsible I’m going to break their kneecaps. Sure, St. Louis’s crime rates look bad on paper, but these days…
It’s deer season here in the Midwest, and once again I’m missing out on all the fun: the campfire camaraderie, the dazzling displays of skill, and the kind of Olympic-sized hangover that makes you swear off drinking for forever or…
My more conservative friends are still amazed that I am engaged to an unabashed liberal. “Don’t you fight like cats and dogs?” they ask. Probably less than they do. Besides, it’s not like we spend all our time discussing deficit…
David Kampwerth takes down a photograph he keeps pinned to a bulletin board in his cramped basement study. In the photo, Kampwerth is seen sitting beside two men in their mid-sixties. All three are grinning. The photograph was taken last…
As a Midwesterner who takes a minimum of two showers a day, I was not so much offended, as puzzled, by Katie Couric’s remarks regarding her recent tour of the “great unwashed middle of the country.” I am aware that…
I wasn’t aware that changes were coming to The American Spectator website. Yet yesterday I had a feeling something was going to happen. Little did I know it would happen so soon. So what do I think? Well, to quote the late…
Recently my doctor — a renowned lipid specialist — suggested I lay off the booze. In her estimable opinion, it was not enough that I cut back, she advised me to “take the pledge.” It seems I have extraordinarily high…
