Why should we remember places with strange names, inhabited by
tribes whose languages and religions and customs are unfamiliar,
most of whom hate us? Why should we remember valleys called the
Gowardesh or the Khien Phuong, towns and hamlets with names we...
Only in the United States Congress could a legislative provision
entitled “Market-Based H-1B Visa Limits” actually mean that “the
number of visas calculated under subparagraph (A) for any fiscal
year shall not be less than 110,000 or more than 180,0...
In 1987, on the evening of her third general election victory as
leader of the Conservative Party, the late and great Margaret
Thatcher gave a speech
before her constituents in the district of Finchley. It was mostly
boilerplate stuff—thanking...
Rookie Florida Senator Marco Rubio continues to work tirelessly
to get the United States to annex Mexico, though an exhaustive (and
exhausting) search of his 2010 election campaign reveals no
promises to do, nor even a mention that he might consider doing...
New Jersey alcohol enforcement officials raided bars up and down
the Garden State Wednesday on suspicion that mixologists were
pouring generic rail-drinks from high-end liquor bottles. Earlier
samples of 150 liquors ordered by name yielded a 20 percent fr...
Beijing’s leadership expertly follows a tricky path of
maintaining close financial and commercial relations with
Washington while simultaneously strutting about militarily.
American businessmen and visiting politicians are wined and dined
by well-connec...
Sometime back, the adults (i.e., our Archbishop) thought that
our local church needed reining in. It called itself a “community,”
not a church. It featured a cross, not a crucifix. A cross with no
One on it. There were some who thought that th...
Amanda Bynes was a child actress who starred in shows like
All That and The Amanda Show on Nickelodeon. Now,
like so many other young stars, she’s continually in trouble with
the law, her most recent infraction throwing a
bong out of the 36th floor...
A staff writer for the prominent progressive site Daily Kos has
repudiated her support for Kaitlyn
Ashley Hunt, the Florida teenager whose sex crime case became a
cause célèbre of the gay-rights movement in the past
week. The 18-year-old on Friday...
I am saddened to write that former Scottish Labour MP Jimmy Wray
passed away today after a lengthy illness. He was 75. Or perhaps
78. He was a lot like Satchel Paige in that respect.
Jimmy was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 in the
constit...
1. Special
Report:
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun by Jeffrey Lord
President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union
chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.
2. The Right
Prescription: Time
to Go for the Kill by Peter
Ferrara
...
