Larry Thornberry

Watching large scrums of young people (and some old enough to know better) demonstrating across the country this weekend in…

The Florida branch of Americans for Prosperity has gotten into the controversy over the new ball yard that the Tampa…

Mark Twain is supposed to have said of the prospect of being tarred and feathered that, “Except for the honor,…

President Trump is right that Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation is a political witch hunt that never should have been authorized…

It’s worse than we thought. Later than we thought. The totalitarian PC enforcers have even established a beachhead in country…

When there’s a long sentence with the word “but” in the middle, start reading after the “but,” because what follows…

Why spend money and reading time on two older gents kvetching in Where Were We? That’s easy. Because you’re unlikely to find more amusing kvetching anywhere in print than in this compendium of email correspondence between two men of letters, one in America, the other in England. It’s a follow-on of the equally entertaining, Distant Intimacy, published by Yale University Press in 2013 and still available.

Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard, who was taken from us too early at 47 because of a bad heart, blessed us…

Richard Wagner’s music is an acquired taste. A more difficult acquisition than most. I’ll admit to being much attracted to Mark Twain’s sarcastic take, which was (relying on my memory here, so I may not have the exact quote): “Wagner’s music is a lot better than it sounds.” Just so.