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The Girl Who Cried Racism

Kennett, Missouri, is best known these days as the hometown of pop rock diva Sheryl Crow. Sheryl Crow and now Heather Ellis. The latter is no rock star, but she is a bona fide celebrity (or one famous for being famous). Ellis, 24, the celebrated ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Sheryl Crow,  Randi Kaye,  Edmund Burke

No Class

A certain notorious photograph has been making the rounds in the British press. The photo shows a clearly intoxicated group of (doubtlessly) well-to-do young women, one of whom is frolicking down the streets of Cardiff with her knickers round her ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  19 Nov 2009

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Blood Brother

For decades, Western intellectuals have judged him the Good Marxist. His assassination by Joseph Stalin's agents was further proof -- if further proofs were needed -- of his honorable intentions. If only Leon Trotsky, rather than Stalin, had ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Leon Trotsky,  Joseph Stalin,  Vladimir Lenin,  Mary McCarthy,  Saul Bellow

Foiled Again

The would-be terrorists -- one an American, the other a Canadian -- called their plot to murder two Danish newspapermen the "Mickey Mouse Project." The cutesy code-name may have stemmed from the fact that David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Coleman,  David Coleman Headley,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Lashkar-e-Taiba,  Yahoo!

The Individual Mandate Slope

Americans are used to the state forcing us to buy things. More than likely your state government forces you to purchase automobile insurance in order to operate your motorcar, just as you must buy a helmet to peddle your bicycle, mud flaps if you ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  New York Times Company,  Rush Limbaugh

Shine On

My daddy, he made whiskey; my granddaddy, he did too.
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792. -- Albert Frank Bedoe This week the nation's last illegal whiskey unit was shut down due to budget cuts. The team was based out of Franklin County, ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Alexander Hamilton,  U.S. Congress,  Thomas Jefferson,  U.S. Republican Party

Unhealthy Choice

Of the countless reasons for our health care crisis, one, a lack of personal responsibility, has been getting short shrift. It certainly failed to get a single mention in President Obama's health care speech last week. Likely it is because the ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Charles Boustany,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Dean Ornish,  Mary Schmich

Insult to Injury

In the Netherlands one may badmouth or lampoon a group's god or prophets, just not the group itself. Many European Muslims, however, would prefer to have it the other way around, and see this as a prime example of how secular Europeans place man ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Geert Wilders

Beautiful Freaks

I'll bet you can count the number of rock star autobiographies that delve into string theory and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics on one hand. I say this by way of warning: if you are looking for a rock memoir with tales of ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Mark Oliver Everett,  Eels (musician),  Albert Einstein,  Niels Bohr,  Werner Heisenberg

A Short History of Drugs

I have always felt a fondness for Richard Brautigan's story "," with its Hemingwayesque language and its clever use of nostalgic understatement: I would do things like that when I was sixteen. I'd hitch-hike fifty miles in the rain to go hunting ...

From CHRISTOPHER ORLET, American Spectator,  27 Aug 2009

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