Conservative commentator says famous Catholic archbishop would be branded a "far-right extremist" today without changing his message on faith and communism.
The mornings are cooler. The sun sets earlier every day. Football is around the corner. And as wonderful as the NFL is, for many of us, nothing beats the pageantry, the tradition, and the excitement of college football. The sport is far from perfect, and it is going through a bit of a transition phase […]
Two seemingly distinct news stories about Kamala Harris’s presidential election campaign cast light on each other and also illuminate the central quality of deception in her bid for the White House. One story is that she bought ads for delivery to people searching Google for news. Users get a stack of links to stories on […]
I was blessed to survive my time in the war in Afghanistan uninjured and without serious PTSD challenges. Yet, I still face some problems that can manifest in unexpected ways. On a hot day, my wife suggested a movie in the cool, dark theater. “That Twisters movie looks good.” Faithful reader, this is not a […]
Sometimes, all it takes to prosecute terrorist-sympathizing criminals is a district attorney who is not a terrorist sympathizer. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is charging 26 “pro-Palestinian” protesters for blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge for more than four hours. Their actions led to families with children being stranded without water and a […]
MOBILE, Alabama — The dread, unspoken but real, starts growing along the Gulf Coast at this time of year. The dread isn’t helped when the first sentence of a New Orleans Times-Picayune story says: “Temperatures off the coast of southeast Louisiana hit bathtub range last week.” High Gulf water temperatures — “the highest sea surface […]
Here’s my synopsis for The Instigators, Apple TV+’s messy straight-to-streamer led by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck: After botching an election-night robbery, two dim-but-affable Boston bros (and one of their shrinks) outrun the police as they bicker like they’re in couples therapy. It’s a heist movie on a psychiatrist’s couch. It’s a parody of a […]
Step 1: Sanitize sexual perversions with euphemistic, even playful, language. Step 2: Bring perfectly normal proclivities under the same linguistic banner, thus blurring any moral lines. I speak, of course, of the word “kink,” a term that has enjoyed explosive popularity in recent years as its usefulness to the Left has increased. During the not-memorably-prudish […]
To accuse former President Donald Trump of being petulant is like accusing a cow of being bovine or a butterfly of being flighty. His toddlerlike self-absorption, for reasons that continue to elude me, does not bother his working-class base. But even his supporters generally recognize that a certain boastful sulkiness is part of his brand. […]
What must David Mamet think of The Decameron, Netflix’s laughless comedy of medieval prurience and plague? In the 1990s, long before his turn as a conservative provocateur, the dramatist was famous in iconoclastic circles for his condemnation of modern acting, with its endless “funny voices.” Yet strained artificiality is the new production’s primary mode, not […]
Timothy W. Ryback, a Dutch historian and the director of the Hague-based Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, has written numerous excellent books about the Holocaust, including his latest, Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power. Ryback’s 12-month snapshot of a pivotal period in Germany’s descent into totalitarianism carefully and persuasively captures the nuance of what […]
Despite groveling coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris by the liberal press, she still needs to solve an intricate puzzle: how to distance herself from President Joe Biden’s failed and unpopular economic record, all of which she supported, while at the same time not actually changing any underlying policy. So far, she has stalled for […]
The recent heinous rape in Coney Island, where Daniel Davon-Bonilla, a repeat offender who’d previously served time for a similar crime, underscores the grave...
Although Democrats deposed President Joe Biden from the top of their 2024 ticket, installing Vice President Kamala Harris in place of the man who appointed her his second-in-command, the fundamentals of the case for GOP nominee Donald Trump theoretically should not have changed. While replacing the oldest president in history with a comely 59-year-old neutralized […]
