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A Gail Collins article in the Sunday Review section of today's NY Times was titled  Hillary in History . About halfway through the artic...

The main reason Jeb was the early frontrunner in the Republican sweepstakes was his last name. Despite the fact that we are nominally a demo...

An anonymous commenter pointed out this morning that Ben Carson has "forfeited his right to be taken seriously" because of his be...

The US Department Education's Office of Civil Rights has ordered the Palatine Illinois Township School District to allow a boy who ident...

Back in March of '09 I explained why author Frederick Forsyth is such a heroic figure . (He's actually one of my two greatest heroes...

You don't have to look far on the internet to see a lot of nasty jokes about Obama. There are jokes about how he was born in Kenya. Abou...

The Republican debate last night generated the usual amount of publicity. All of the candidates are obviously intelligent, and well-rehearse...

Saw two movies on pay-per-view in the last two days. Dope  is about a nerdy black guy from Inglewood who wants to get into Harvard. Most ...

Commenter Steven recently mentioned Michelle Carter . You may have heard of her: she's the high school girl in Massachusetts who cajoled...

An article in the NY Post just described why Principal Lena Van Haren at Everett Middle School in San Francisco decided to withhold school ...

Seymour Hersh's  article in the London Review of Books  about how the killing of Osama bin Laden really occurred, which came out in May,...

You may have noticed that when in a good mood, you'll either relive a pleasant experience, or indulge in a pleasant fantasy about someth...

Lamar Odom is the former Los Angeles Laker who was married for a few years to Khloe Kardashian. If you read the tabloids -- as I do -- yo...

Kevin McCarthy, who withdrew his bid for speaker of the House yesterday, is now being accused of having had an affair with fellow Represent...

The current Jeopardy champion, Matt Jackson, is on a roll. He's won eight straight games, and over $200,000. By the second or third t...

According to Christopher Harper-Mercer's mother, who was quoted in the NY Times this morning , he had Aspergers Syndrome. Just like Elli...

The worm's eye view of a person is always far more illuminating than any other view. Update, next day: yet another book detailing Hi...

While we were on the subject of men's looks this evening, my son offered the following analysis of mine: "Dad, you're like a ...

In June of 2011 I wrote a sociopath alert about Frank Abagnale , the con man about whom the movie Catch Me if You Can was about. Yesterda...

The other day Ed Gendreau pointed out: "People always say 'We're a nation of immigrants' as a rationale to allow illega...