He wuz robbed. Admit it, you neo-cons, paleo-cons, compassionates, country clubbers and decline-to-states: right now, in a just, moral, ordered universe, Mitt Romney should be President. He was right on Iraq and Benghazi, right on healthcare, immigration, and Russia. But…
Above: A fragment of Jacques-Louis David’s oil painting of the Coronation of Emperor Napoléon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Notre-Dame de Paris, December 2, 1804 Description: Joséphine kneels before Napoléon during his coronation at Notre Dame….
It’s a puzzlement: Why do leftists tolerate radical Islam? Begging the question: What does the man who Newsweek‘s cover declared is “the first gay president” think is going to happen once sharia comes to his zip code? Great minds are…
One of my all time favorite few seconds of cinema, ranking up there with Charles Foster Kane’s deathbed revelation and Bogie’s send off of Ilsa Laszlo, is from Talladega Nights (2006) and best tagged as “Don’t Put that Evil on…
Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it? Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. Detective Tom Polhaus: Huh? —The Maltese Falcon (film) To ignore history is reckless. To invert its lessons is suicide….
Today is the most important day in the national abortion debate since the Roe v Wade decision was handed down. By “voting with her foetus” Sarah Palin has changed the dynamic of the debate away from the perfectly polarized /it’s…
As Yogi would say, if George Orwell were alive today he’d be rolling in his grave. Speaking in Alexandria today, Obama scoffed at those who would criticize him for talking not just to our friends but also to our enemies….
For the sake of our collective survival, the English-speaking world needs to annually trumpet common achievements, values, and goals. Fortunately, the calendar contains an excellent date. Even better, the holiday’s credo has already been composed — by the greatest content…