Elizabeth Samet is a professor of English at West Point, although I am given to wonder for how much longer. By the sheerest coincidence I happened to be reading an…
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Unrepentant ex-Vice President and founder of the social media website for gun lovers, Faceshoot, Dick Cheney, armed with a heart transplant and his five deferments from the Vietnam war, emerged…
I promised myself I would not subject what was left of my audacity of hope to President Obama’s most recent State of the Union Address. I almost made it. I…
French Presidents, and the women who love them? As I write this, the French politician sex scandal de jour involves France’s current president, M. Hollande, a man who will remind you much…
Him: How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? Me: I don’t know. Him: You know why don’t know? Me: No, why? Him: ‘CAUSE YOU…
If one of the important features of the Affordable Care Act is to insure patients against denial of service for pre-existing conditions, should it also then provide service for someone…
Perhaps it is common to every generation to wonder whether or not their society or civilization as they have known it is going to hell. Part of this owes to,…
I hate liver and onions. Why I decided to order it in the dispenser of dysentery I sometimes ate at when I was in grad school in Syracuse has long…
Preamble: I sometimes think that the Bible has it wrong with that Adam’s rib story in Genesis. It actually went like this: God first created Woman; then he borrowed her…
On the morning of August 17, 1918, Private Vito Vitelli, of the American 21st company of the 151st Depot Brigade was lying in a foxhole in the Argonne Forest when…