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by | Jun 6, 2014

Want to know why Obama now seems prepared to throw the county into another recession in pursuit of solving global warming? Want to know why he has been so clueless in dealing with the Bowe Bergdahl mess? It’s been said…

by | May 21, 2014

Philip Terzian, literary editor at the Weekly Standard, has written an article entitled “Inspired Amateurs Should Avoid Politics,” arguing that Republicans should avoid nominating Ben Carson for President. And the editors at The Wall Street Journal have seen fit to…

by | May 16, 2014

For the past decade the Democrats have managed to defy gravity by bolting together an unlikely coalition of the richest and poorest Americans. It’s no secret. Ever since President Bush’s re-election in 2004, the pattern has been clear. People making…

by | May 12, 2014

Although it hasn’t attracted much attention outside the business pages, Energy Future Holdings, the largest utility in Texas, is going through the biggest bankruptcy proceeding since the collapse of Chrysler five years ago. The story does not bode well for…

by | Apr 30, 2014

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died at the age of 76 two weeks ago and immediately the encomiums began again — “wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit,” “could have been champion,” “victim of racial injustice,” etc., etc. I wasn’t even…

by | Apr 29, 2014

No fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any courtroom of the United States, than according to the rules of common law.—The Bill of Rights, Amendment VII On June 17, 1966, at two in the morning, someone…

by | Apr 22, 2014

Several years ago, when energy issues first starting engaging the public, the New Yorker ran a cartoon showing an upscale couple sitting in a fancy restaurant. The wife leans across the table and says to her husband, “Frankly, they’ve been…

by | Apr 15, 2014

You have to wonder how these things get started. Or maybe you don’t. The world is always filled with fantasies and wishful thinking. Newspapers and the Internet just make them circulate a little faster. On April 7, the U.S. Naval…

by | Apr 8, 2014

Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving InnovationBy Henry J. Heimlich(Prometheus Books, 253 pages, $19.95) Dr. Henry Heimlich is an American treasure. You undoubtedly know him from the Heimlich Maneuver, which probably saves the life of someone in America every…

by | Apr 3, 2014

Today’s moral lesson involves the 18-year-old Duke University freshman who has revealed that she is moonlighting in pornography movies to pay her outsized $60,000-a-year tuition at Duke. Miriam Weeks, aka “Belle Knox,” revealed her secret identity to her date on…

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