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Larry Thornberry is a writer in Tampa.
by | Oct 2, 2023

If you listen carefully, you can hear Donald Trump celebrating his reelection to the presidency. The reason for this giddy confidence in Mar-a-Lago this week is the recent news that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to run for president as…

by | Sep 29, 2023

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 224 pages, $28) How fortunate we are to have Thomas Sowell to apply clarifying reason and evidence — both always in short supply — to the confused and dishonest rhetoric and toxic…

by | Aug 8, 2023

The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game By Tim Brown with Erik Kratz (Twelve, 304 pages, $30) Veteran baseball writer Tim Brown has created a very readable tribute to the least celebrated member…

by | Jul 16, 2023

The Novel, Who Needs It? By Joseph Epstein (Encounter Books, 142 pages, $25.99) I have my high school teachers to thank for my lifetime of reading for pleasure and learning. Not that they were good at convincing me that the…

by | Jul 2, 2023

The United States Supreme Court and Shohei Ohtani enjoyed great Junes. Ohtanisan, the biggest story in baseball, hit a remarkable 15 home runs in June’s 30 days, punctuating the end of the month with a 493-foot moon shot Friday night…

by | Jun 18, 2023

Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity By Marco Rubio (Broadside Books, 223 pages, $32) In 2010, a 39-year-old Marco Rubio (he looked even younger) scored a major electoral upset, unhorsing Florida’s…

by | Jun 4, 2023

At first blush I thought our F.H. Buckley was having us on. The headline on his informative Thursday morning column, “The Gentlemanly Side of Hockey,” read to me like the winner in the Most Outlandish Oxymoron of the Year Contest….

by | May 7, 2023

It would be a mistake for those running the Trump campaign to put matters on cruise control. And they shouldn’t order the nomination night champagne just yet. Their man is well ahead in current polling, but there’s a fight ahead…

by | May 6, 2023

The thoughtful and observant have likely not afforded much credibility to the “news,” breathlessly reported by the usual suspects, that about a quarter of young Americans identify as being in one of more of the LGBQIA etc., etc. categories. As…

by | Mar 19, 2023

Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West’s Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber By John Boessenecker (Hanover Square Press, 376 pages, $32.99) Stagecoach holdups were a staple of those Western movies of the fifties that I so enjoyed…

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