I have a piece at TAP Online about America's "elegant decline" or lack thereof:We live in strange times. While the United States is responsible for close to 50 percent of aggregate world military expenditure, and maintains close alliances with almost all of the other major military...
Shorter Caitlin Flanagan: The fact that Hillary Clinton gave her cat to another person who would care for it makes her evil. Said cat also had a massive impact on.
Says Huckabee: most" of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were "clergymen." This is true to the extent that 1 out of 56 = "most."Of course, what matters even.
Sui Generis has been following the case of Bobbijean P., the child taken away from her parents - two homeless people struggling with crack addictions. In the neglect proceeding regarding custody over the girl (initiated wholly on the basis of the child's positive drug screen at...
If I can be allowed a brief moment of sincerity, I'd like to thank everyone who e-mailed or commented on last week's post about my father's passing. I still can't.
Is this a joke?When it comes to the health of our children, two cigarettes may be better than one. Young smokers who begin their habit with nicotine-laden cigarettes need a.
You may have heard about this embrace of utter crackpottery from new social conservative darling Mike Huckabee:Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said legalized abortion in the United States was a holocaust.“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so...
Richard Mellon Scaife or St. Derek of Pasta Diving? (The former via the Sultan of Shrill.)
I have an article in this month's American Prospect about the United States Air Force. An excerpt:But it's time to revisit the 1947 decision to separate the Air Force from.
The problem:The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys. SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the...
Via Sam Boyd, I bring you this Kirchick Komedy Klassic:Earlier this week, I speculated in a bloggingheads with Jon Keller, political reporter for the Boston CBS affiliate and author of.
Even for Bruce Tinsley, this is incomprehensible. Does he really think that benching Hope Solo was some form of racism? Beats me. I think we need the Comics Curmudgeon to.