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In days of yore, adrift on waves of Chianti

It's summer, the season of vacations, therefore the season of air travel and the season of people getting kicked off planes because they've had too much to drink. The culture has shifted, though, and because of regulations or health consciousness or sheer panic at the idea of getting sued, I'm sure that I'll never again experience what I did on a transatlantic Alitalia flight from the U.S. about 25 years ago. I was broke at the time, and I'd somehow managed to snag a round-trip ticket to Athens on the Italian carrier for about $600. When I sat down, I noticed that I'd been placed in ...

Bill Maher, liberalism’s apostate

Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper -- yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it's only in Donald Trump's Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves. He's now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by the late, legendary Richard Pryor in 1998 and last year given to Conan O'Brien. Not every recipient has been politically left-wing, but Maher stands out as a rare left-leaning comic who dares criticize his own tribe, and he's paid a price for it. Liberals like Maher ...

We all stand to lose in Hegseth’s war on diversity

Is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth resegregating the military? I hear that question a lot since the news broke that our nation's current secretary of defense has actively blocked or delayed the promotions of dozens of senior military officers -- with women and people of color ...

The temporary immigration program that’s been forever

The last two decades have been a continuous adventure in redefining the phrase "white supremacy" to include less and less pertinent things. The latest is that the Supreme Court has allegedly joined forces with Trump to "advance an authoritarian, white-supremacist agenda" -- in the words of ...

The feminist fashionistas uncork ugliness against Usha

One way our nation's most "prestigious" newspapers show they're Democrat Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a ...

The background that made the revolution possible

As we inch toward the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, let me share a couple of reflections on the background of how this extraordinary, unprecedented and daring event succeeded. Two decades ago, I set out to write a book about the events known as the ...