The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places. The measure affects less than 2,000 women, but it has been…
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The great Lower Manhattan Mosque Brouhaha (LMMB) seems, at first, like plainly a contest between the principled and the pig-headed. By now we all know, but some remain unwilling to…
(With apologies to Louis Bruñel) Americans would never use the French term for the social class that is the equivalent of the venerable “American Dream.” But we occupants of the…
On 7.31.2010 NPR ran a piece that BP was trying to ”buy up” as many possible scientific witnesses in what promises to be the biggest tort case ever to settle…
Usually I prefer to keep my comments on “happening” events, or “news” to Carpe Diem. But I will break with that here because I have this sinking sense that things are…
You, yes you, you are hereby approved for the new CHINA WAR FINANCING QISA GOLD CARD. Yes, like the U.S.A., you can finance your own foreign wars without having to pay anything…
In the nether locales of the nation, where necks are red and politics is expressed in drawled simplicities, they seem to have a bit of an ideological dilemma these days.…
America has never gotten over its rather precipitous dumping of its agrarian and small town origins. They linger virally in our national marrow ready to be summoned by next drawling…
The latest iterations of the Cialis commercials have obviously take a heed of the focus groups: guys just are resisting doing what is the mantra that all the pharmaceutical companies…
Preamble: A person from Britain I met a few years ago while on my travels, and for whom I have admiration and affection, sent me a solicitation she received from…