Fifty-three years ago, Life magazine proclaimed them “The Buckleys: A Gifted American Family.” The passing of James L. Buckley at 100 means that all eight of the surviving Buckley siblings who appeared on that memorable magazine cover are, like Life…
One of the brightest lights of one of the most illustrious American families of recent memory has passed away, and with his passing his family is about gone. Jim Buckley, the older brother of William F. Buckley, passed away last…
Jaye P. Morgan gave Paul Reubens a “10” before the rest of America did. The man who became Pee-wee Herman previewed his famous “Tequilla” dance on The Gong Show in the 1970s as part of a “Suave and Debonair” double-act…
Each morning we remind ourselves of all the lives that have been lost. In the afternoon, we savor the sun shining outside the window. The fresh grass rising up among dead rocks. And in the evening we remind ourselves once…
There once was a British Labour Party politician named Glenda Jackson. She represented a London district in the House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, identifying strongly as a socialist, a feminist, and a republican (that is, a non-monarchist), serving…
Word is just in that noted “televangelist” Pat Robertson has died at the age of 93. Robertson will no doubt at this moment be maligned by the secular Left, which he would expect and literally laugh off with his characteristic…
“I don’t want to offend, and yet I do, in a way.” — Dame Edna, 2004 No, Dame Edna Everage was not drag. When the masterly Australian performer Barry Humphries put on a purple wig, a bedazzled frock, and a…
Former U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster, a one-time pillar of both Pennsylvania politics and American transportation policy — and my first boss on arriving in Washington — died this week. The boss was 91, had suffered a recent fall that broke…
A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on March 7, 2023, at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Alexandria, Virginia. To continue George’s legacy of reporting God’s truth, donations may be made in his name to The American Spectator…
