Too Much Media Action for Jackson
It seems as if Michael Jackson has done the impossible. That is, he appears to be getting more media coverage — and more...
Culture
Mass. Sues Feds Over Defense of Marriage Act
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in an unusual twist for someone in the uber liberal Bay State, is suing the federal government, invoking...
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Ordinary Patriots, Extraordinary Sacrifices
George Washington, Nathan Hale, Thomas Paine, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry: heroes whose names will live as long as liberty does. Yet behind the...
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Michael Jackson and Our Modern Celebrity Culture
Despite all that is going on in the world, the biggest story for the past week has been the death of Michael Jackson....
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A Real Duke Rape Case
We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black...
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“Pro-choice” Advocates Often Inconsistent
I have been inveighing for so long against the hypocrisy of the “pro-choice” advocates, both in and out of government, that some people...
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
A premonition of death hovered over the medieval section of Warsaw. Surrounded by a 10-foot wall of brick and barbed wire, the most...
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Paying It Forward From Pittsburgh to Chicago
The concept of “paying it forward” — doing a good deed while asking only that the person helped would in turn help someone...
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How the New York Times Helped Tyrants
The New York Times may have a reputation as America’s premiere newspaper, but it also has a well-deserved reputation among informed Americans as...
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The Bielski Forest
When Germany invaded Poland in WWII, the Polish Jews that the Germans did not immediately kill were jammed in ghettos, there to await...
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Freedom and Progress
For more than two centuries, freedom has been the catchword of Western Civilization. What began as an abstraction from the pens of Locke,...
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The Standards of Our Standard
On our first day in school, most of us stood beside our desk, put our little hand over our heart, and repeated (with...
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The America We Knew and Loved
A well-used copy of Consumer Reports dated March 2009 caught my eye in the doctor’s reception area. The cover story: “Great old appliances.”...
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Consolations of Bachelorhood on Father’s Day
“Marriage has many difficulties, but celibacy has no pleasures,” said Samuel Johnson. Whether Johnson was exaggerating or was right on the bull’s eye,...
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Same-sex Benefits Sidestep the Law
President Barack Obama on June 17 issued a presidential memorandum that extended a number of benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers. The...
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