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From the AP : An American service member died Friday when his vehicle struck a bomb in eastern Afghanistan, making August the deadliest mont...

Our elected officials and punditocracy are engaging in an orgy of nostalgia over the late Ted Kennedy, in part because he embodied their ide...

Would anybody really be so bad at PR as to want to rename Obama's health care initiative after the late Senator Ted? Don't they unde...

Typically, college football rankings are dominated by public "flagship" universities (e.g., the University of Oklahoma) rather tha...

Here's a video of a riot in my old neighborhood, Uptown, whose slogan is "Chicago's Most Entertaining Neighborhood." (It...

My Wednesday Taki's Magazine column reviews Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds : Apparently, Tarantino is one of the very few...

Sen. Kennedy sponsored both the 1965 immigration act and the 1990 act that created the absurd diversity immigration lottery . The irony is t...

When I was lugging my backpack through Salzburg and Innsbruck in 1980, Austrians on the street would point hopefully to the "Sailer...

One of the better movies of 2009, "Adventureland," comes out on DVD on Tuesday. Here's my full review from The American Conser...

My favorite conspiracy theory for the last few months has been that the young Barack Obama benefited from some CIA favors along the way, per...

The main positive finding of the comprehensive Coleman Report of 1966 (funded by LBJ's the 1964 Civil Rights Act) was that after all the...

From the Times of London : Dozens of quangos and taxpayer-funded organisations have ordered a purge of common words and phrases so as no...

The New York Times article " A Cul-de-Sac of Lost Dreams, and New Ones " profiles a nice-looking street in Moreno Valley in Rivers...

Here's a characteristically clueless interview in the Toronto Globe and Mail with District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, whose Afrikaner...

When I started studying Barack Obama's life, I was struck by how remarkably few famous Hawaiians there are. Most of those ambitious few...

Cold Souls (the title is a reference to Gogol's 1842 satire Dead Souls ) is a slight metaphysical fiction movie with Paul Giamatti (...

You should definitely pay the extra dollar or two to see it in a state of the art movie theater with full sub-sonic audio system. Then, sit ...

Randy Cohen, who writes "The Ethicist" column for the New York Times Sunday Magazine is the gift that keeps on giving. C. Van Car...