$1,300 Chicken Coops and the Quest for Authenticity
Posted on January 30, 2013 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Today’s Wall Street Journal carries a story, “Backyard Farming Gets Fancy,” on yet another politically acceptable form of conspicuous consumption: backyard farming, suburban style. Do you suffer from a nagging fear that friends find you passe’, predictable, or even (gasp) inauthentic? Are you bored by the ease with which you can procure all the products you [...]
Read More..>>New Study Reveals Global Warming Less Than Feared
Posted on January 26, 2013 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Good news on the environmental front — according to a a report from Science Daily global warming is less extreme than feared: After Earth’s mean surface temperature climbed sharply through the 1990s, the increase has leveled off nearly completely at its 2000 level. Ocean warming also appears to have stabilised somewhat, despite the fact that [...]
Read More..>>Celebrity Hypocrities
Posted on January 1, 2013 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
There is nothing more annoying than a bunch of sanctimonious Hollywood liberals who want to take your guns away after a disaster like the Sandy Hook school massacre, but they so often forget that they make their money as shoot-them-up cops or robbers in the movies. Well, one movie maker on Youtube doesn’t let them [...]
Read More..>>Reclaiming the “Party of Lincoln”
Posted on December 25, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
From The Queens Village Eagle, January 2013. America’s most admired president, Abraham Lincoln has been in vogue lately with the release of Steven Spielberg’s widely acclaimed film, Lincoln, a biographical portrait of Lincoln’s anti-slavery crusade. Just as the liberal establishment has repeatedly compared president Obama to Lincoln, they have once again abused and sugar-coated American [...]
Read More..>>A Standing Ovation for a Genocidal Bigot
Posted on December 6, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
What follows is the commentary by Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars and a wonderfully articulate and courageous critic of the pernicious idiocies of political correctness in the academy, on what transpired at a dinner hosted by the Iranian delegation to the United Nations in New York this past September, at which some [...]
Read More..>>The Integrity of the Voting Process
Posted on December 1, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
It’s already several weeks after the demoralizing general election losses but we hear many voices of hope in the midst of chaos. New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted Barack Obama another four-year term as president and many fine local Republican candidates suffered stunning defeats in “down ticket” state and federal races. But in the midst of this [...]
Read More..>>Anthony Weiner Exposes Himself Again
Posted on November 12, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Former Congressman, Anthony Weiner, who resigned more than one year ago over a sexting scandal, has re-entered the political world exposing himself as the shameless opportunist he has always been. It was widely reported that he tweeted a moving You Tube video about the extensive damage in the Rockaways caused by Hurricane Sandy. It was [...]
Read More..>>A Sad Day for the Republic
Posted on November 7, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
America was not the only loser last night. So were the virtues parents try to instill in their children — honesty, courage, personal responsibility, modesty, courtesy, compassion, and a respect for truth. Last night two good and decent men were defeated by two vile and indecent men: one a megalomaniacal, arrogant, discourteous, publicly foul-mouthed, condescending, [...]
Read More..>>An All-American Town
Posted on November 5, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
As we gear up for election day tomorrow, I draw your attention to a fine article written by Miami Herald reporter, Marjie Lambert, about my home away from home, the town where I was married in the beautiful St. Agnes Episcopal Church, and a town I was privileged enough to call home for a year [...]
Read More..>>My Dinner with Mahmoud
Posted on October 31, 2012 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
What follows is a letter I sent today to the Central Recorder, the student newspaper at Central Connecticut State University, in New Britain CT., where I teach history. The letter was written in response to an article in the paper describing the dinner in New York last month, hosted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, [...]
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