You know how the mint is putting out quarters featuring all of the 50 states. Now the territories will also get a quarter, as will Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia turned in a proposed design that featured the slogan “No taxation without representation.” See,
England’s royal family may be returning to its chivalric roots. Prince Harry, the third in line to the throne, is a military officer who has been fighting in hot combat in Afghanistan. His unit has killed some 30 Taliban. [Who can identify the allusion in
Iran ‘number one world power’: Ahmadinejad: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Thursday that Iran was the world’s “number one” power, as he launched a bitter new assault on domestic critics he accused of siding with the enemy. “Everybody has understood that Iran is the number
So what are you going to do with the extra day that you have been given this year? I believe that February 29, which we only get once every four years, should be a holiday. And I’m not just talking about Little Orphan Annie’s birthday
Mark Steyn, the Canadian conservative, brings together insightful punditry and devastating humor. That is to say, he is a true satirist. For a sample of what a good writer he is, consider his description in a piece on fall of the house of Clintonof Bill
Shopkeepers in England, annoyed by adolescents loitering around their stores, are installing a new device called the Mosquito. It emits an ultra-high pitched annoying noise—“eeeeeeeeek”–that people over 25 cannot hear. It drives away the kids while adults, with their deteriorating hearing, remain unphased. Read this:
William F. Buckley, the influential conservative writer, intellectual, and raconteur, is dead at 82. Go to National Review Online, which he founded, for a wide array of tributes.
Naming something is the first step to dealing with it. Thanks to Terry Mattingly for teaching me a new word: Flexidoxy. Every Saturday, journalist David Brooks and his family can choose between three services at their synagogue in Washington, D.C. Rabbis lead a mainstream, almost
Barack Obama has a lot of things going for him, but once his positions get scrutinized, he may have trouble getting the votes of the masses. For example, he has an unusually extreme, even for liberals, Anti-Gun Stance. A discussion about guns has broken out
Young people today know hardly anything about history, literature, or Western culture. We knew that, but study proves it. Among the findings, Among 1,200 students surveyed: •43% knew the Civil War was fought between 1850 and 1900. •52% could identify the theme of 1984. •51%
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