“Dear Taxpayer, Congratulations! You have been selected for liquidation by your Regional Health-Care Benefits Advanced Care Consultation Panel! Additionally, after an extensive audit of your plan by your plan’s administrators, you have been fo

William F. Buckley, Founder and editor of National Review. I was never a fan of William F. Buckley or of his magazine, National Review. It was, like Dueling Barstools said of the online magazine Alternative Right, a publication for “urban, educated,

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Hope. The Republic has fallen. Americans voted for Hopeandchange ™ without ever comprehending what Obama was hoping to change them into. Thus we stand before a litany of present failures and future disasters beginning with Cap-and-Trade, Obamacare,

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Eastern Promises was one of my all-time favorite movies, but I’m a complete Russophile and love anything – even fictional – about Russia. Earlier today I stumbled across an interesting post pertaining to Russian prison tattoos and their

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Where’s Christopher? See if you can find Christopher Hitchens among the libertines in the painting! Christopher Hitchens is a lovable rogue. While he may claim that religion – especially Christianity – is the sink of iniquity and where a