Here is a fascinating account of our nation’s first conflict with radical Islam: When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists. When the Barbary states captured American ships and made slaves of American citizens, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson negotiated for their release. The pasha demanded
You will note that this season baseball players no longer have Popeye arms and thick necks. And now that steroids are no longer taken like candy, the number of homeruns has plummeted down to historically normal proportions. Thomas Boswell explains: This spring, for the second
We did see the new Indiana Jones movie last weekend, and while it was mostly “tedious havoc” (identify that quotation), it did support my point in the “Professor Jones” post that the series is really all about academia. The best line in the new movie:
Porn Tax Considered As Solution To Budget Shortfall : California state lawmakers are considering an unusual idea to solve the state’s huge budget shortfall: Tax pornography. The idea was proposed by a state assemblyman, and would impose a 25 percent tax on the production and
This is the Democrats’ big chance! How could they not win this next presidential election?Well, when ordinary Americans are presented with the whackiness, extremism, and condescension of that party’s activist base–which is so self-righteous that it almost never tempers itself for public consumption–revulsion may set
The planet Jupiter is undergoing climate change. I’m sure, in some way that we don’t fully understand, it is our fault! Global warming has gotten so bad it is now affecting the rest of the universe. We have gone from global warming to galactic warming.
I hope you all have a good Memorial Day weekend. This is a day that started as a commemoration to honor those who died in battle for their country. It expanded, at least in part of the country such as the Oklahoma where I grew
My favorite scene in all of the Indiana Jones movies and the key to their true meaning, in my opinion, is in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The swashbuckling archaeologist is, remember, a college professor, and in that movie we see him in front of
I am greatly encouraged that John McCain has invited Bobby Jindal to his Memorial Day cookout and vice-presidential talent show. The former Louisiana congressman and currently governor of that state has been hailed as among the best and the brightest of a new generation of
This weekend is the Indianapolis 500. I once attended an auto race and enjoyed it tremendously, though I confess (and this is a blot on my country music credentials) to not following that particular sport in all of its no-doubt interesting varieties. But I remember
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