A previous version of this essay was published in “The Hatchet: The Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies.†“If you exclude the events in Oklahoma City, Tim was a good person.” The preceding quote was made about convicted mass murderer Timothy McVeigh, the homegrown terrorist who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City…
Here’s what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Wall Street Journal: “I didn’t want to take this position. I only agreed because I thought it would serve the national interest, and I will not accept it again,” he said. “I wish it could be done with even before the end of this term.” Not…
After a night of panty-less debauchery Britney Spears collapsed at the SkankPalace nightclub. An ambulance dispatched the pop diva to the Mary Magdalene Medical Center. A spokesperson for the pop diva explained: Ms Spears has been working real hard on her new album, and we thought it prudent to call for an ambulance to take her…
Looking back, it’s hard to imagine a more inept political strategy. First, ignore and insult your base. Next, dream up a campaign theme of gender “empowerment†that falls flat with the three-quarters of American women who abhor the feminist agenda. Then top it off with a fem-fest at the White House in honor of International…
…who needs enemies? Mexico is now providing satellite navigation systems so that illegal immigrants from Mexico can safely find their way across the U.S. border. Would-be illegal immigrants planning to cross the desert and enter the United States on foot are to be given hand-held satellite devices by the Mexican authorities to ensure they arrive…
It would seem that God has been talking to the Reverend Pat Robertson again, and, according to Pat, the news isn’t good. God told Robertson, in addition to recommending and increase in his Thorazine dosage, that the United States will suffer a major terrorist attack in late 2007. This prediction isn’t a major stretch, but still,…
 FAT POLITICS “It began with Ethnic Studies, which, even if you don’t approve of them, at least contain some fragments of actual history and sociology. Then our universities opened themselves to Women’s Studies, closely followed by Queer Studies, then Disability Studies. If you think that has exhausted the possibilities for giving claims of victimhood…
AMERICANS AS THE NEW JEWS Implications of a British survey I have written at some length here about why the Jews have been hated for so long by so many but there is no doubt that, particularly among Leftists, that hatred goes back to the fact that Jews are both distinctive and successful — in…
 Gov. Doyle, Mayor Barrett should reimburse Milwaukee crime victims: “Anti-gun Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett should financially reimburse armed robbery victims who have been left unable to defend themselves, thanks to the policies of these two politicians, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.…
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