There are two activities that mankind has engaged in relentlessly throughout pretty much all of history: peeing and paying taxes. And it is likely that earth’s first inhabitants did not have to pee. The Romans, with Vespasian, consolidated both activities…
Friday I am reeling. Last night, as I have been doing for months, I did an episode of “my” internet show, “The World According to Ben Stein.” It’s a panel show lasting about an hour. The producer is my pal,…
Recent events have rendered it all too obvious that the politicians and bureaucrats charged with overseeing the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic are determined to use it as a pretext to restrict our civil liberties indefinitely. They refuse to…
Sunday Here I am down at our house in Rancho Mirage. My fabulous driver and colleague, Jeff, drove me down here in my fabulous Audi S8. Riding in it is like riding in a cloud. I really cannot adequately praise…
The Left could have let us rest for a year. They could have celebrated defeating their nightmare bogeyman with their mindless zombie and his token minority “second,” and controlling all three tiers of government. They could have mocked and maligned…
There is such a thing as too many streaming services, something YouTube might have found out after the launch of what was originally called YouTube Premium — a subscription service that initially would be a platform for YouTube Originals scripted…
When it comes to social media influencers, many might recognize Michelle Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio, Roger Federer, and Billy Joel. But what about the superstar Islamist clerics — Mohamad Al Arefe, A’id Al Qarnee, Salman Al Odah, and Othman Al Khamis — whose…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s claim that “a riot is the language of the unheard” has been invoked by apologists for every race riot dating to the ’60s. Fire and rage make for great television — cable news certainly thinks so….
Who knew film producer Michael Moore and President Donald Trump would find common ground on a major matter of public policy? True, the gentlemen have more in common than either would care to admit. Both are big white guys of…
