Groupies: A Love Story
“Do you have the clap?” This charming pickup line is slurred by English musician, Luther Grovesnor, to an overeager groupie named Lixie in the notorious 1970 documentary, Groupies. “Yes,” she admits over the din of an East Village nightclub. “But I’ve been on penicillin for three days, so it should be cleared up by now.” This less than More...
John Wayne Refutes Keynesiansm
Here is an excerpt from an insightful interview that John Wayne gave in 1975. In it, he discusses his aversion to liberals, socialism and John Maynard Keynes. His main criticism of liberals is that they don’t More...
The Unbearable Lightness of Sandra Fluke
A red herring named Sandra Fluke floated through the murky waters of Congress last week, lured on by Nancy Pelosi before a mock hearing on the HHS contraception mandate. Miss Fluke’s testimony – as a law student More...
Pregnancy and Other Preventable Diseases
Time was when healthcare prevention was associated with smoke-cessation, dieting and exercise to avoid preventable diseases such as heart attacks, cancer and strokes. With the HHS mandate requiring contraception More...
The Episcopal Church – A House Divided
The Fairfax Circuit Court has ruled in favor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia versus a more traditional breakaway group over church properties. Since voting to split from the Episcopal Church, USA (ECUSA) in More...
Dangerous 10 Year Old Disciplined for Brandishing Piece of Pizza Shaped like a Gun
America’s schools fail repeatedly at their assigned job of teaching our children, but boy, they sure are vigilant about protecting us all from imaginary threats and dangers. Nicholas Taylor, a 1o year old More...
Christopher Hitchens: Courage to be Contrarian
The passing of Christopher Hitchens this week leaves a deep intellectual hole in the English speaking world. A contrarian by nature, he first made his mark as an anti-imperialist Trotskyite of the 1968 stripe before breaking More...
Black Friday Just Seems To Get Blacker
The term Black Friday is used to describe the day which begins the Christmas shopping season when retailers begin to turn a profit, meaning that they are finally “in the black” for the year. But Black More...
Homeless in the Material World
Anthony Ciccone is down on his luck. When the 55 year old Michigan native lost his sales job at a vineyard, things started to slide downhill. For the last year and a half he’s been among the ranks of the homeless, More...
A Tale of Two Mothers
The stories of two very different mothers were juxtaposed in the New York Post on Saturday, October 22. The story on page 5 concerns a Florida wife and mother of four who decided that it was a keen idea to abandon More...
