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by | Jul 27, 2022

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — To give credit where it’s due, California’s government — through the state auditor’s office, Legislative Analyst’s Office, and various inspector generals and oversight bodies — does a remarkable job producing reports that chapter-and-verse the scandals, mismanagement, incompetence,…

by | Jun 3, 2022

When you walk into a high-end cocktail bar these days, there’s a good chance you’ll notice something a little different. Many of these mixology havens are now offering drinks that seem to be missing a key ingredient: alcohol.  This is…

by | May 30, 2022

Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism By Roger Scruton (Bloomsbury Continuum, 256 pages, $28) Nearly everything in this collection originally appeared in a newspaper or a magazine, among these the one you are holding…

by | Nov 20, 2021

Men behave strangely with their cars. Generally, you can crack a guy’s head open with a hammer, or stick your finger in his eye and move it like you were stirring coffee, or set his house on fire, and you…

by | Jul 23, 2021

By this point, any semi-astute political observer has heard of Rahm Emanuel’s oft-repeated quip that one should never let a crisis go to waste. In fact, it’s become something of a theory of governance in Washington, D.C., with policymakers seizing…

by | May 25, 2021

No need to feel guilty about pulling a cork tonight. In fact, it’s your patriotic duty as May 25 is National Wine Day. It’s not clear when it was decided there should be a national day to celebrate wine or…

by | Jan 2, 2021

Start with two solid, respectable ice cubes. None of those suspicious-smelling milk-colored clunkers from your fridge’s ice maker, mind you. Show some self-respect, for God’s sake. Next, liberally sprinkle your cubes with aromatic bitters. Be like the U.S. Congress in…

by | Jan 1, 2021

One of the most common, if perhaps overdone, media talking points during COVID-19 has been laying out the supposed parallels to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that occurred just over a century ago. Regardless of how one feels about this…

by | Dec 4, 2020

Pennsylvania recently banned the sale of alcohol on Thanksgiving eve, supposedly to help contain the spread of coronavirus. Talk about a buzzkill. Both the Left and the Right attacked the move as overzealous and counterproductive. We often hear about the importance of…

by | Sep 30, 2020

I’ve never been one for drinking games — not even in high school — but something about Rob Crisell’s American Spectator post yesterday changed me. Hell, I thought, why not? And so, as last night’s debate began, I found myself in…

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