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Clear filtersVarious cultures are different. Some cultures are better than others. “Oh, Mr. Rob Is Right, you can’t say that! That makes you a PHOBE, a hater, a white supremacist and a…
By now, I am sure you’ve heard that 31 Harvard University student organizations are holding Israel “entirely responsible” for the Hamas terrorist attack that brutally…
OH MY GOD! The sky is falling. Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as speaker of the House! The Republic is in shambles. The Republicans are going to lose all of their seats. Why, this looks…
Boo Hoo. The government is about to shut down. Pop the Champagne corks! Remember 2020, the federal government shut down the whole world! President Trump listened to the…
It’s that time of year. Fall. College football. Major League baseball playoffs. How bout those Orioles! One of my favorite events is my college fraternity, St. Anthony Hall’s…
Labor Day. I hate federal holidays. They are emblematic of what’s wrong with the Leviathan we call the federal government and the corrupting influence it has over American…
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.” Patrick Henry. My mailbox was…
How does it make you feel when you read Love’s Philosophy by British poet Percy Bysshe Shelly? What images run through your mind? “And the moonbeams kiss the sea.” Does…
The happiest time of my life was raising my children. Before my children came along, I was a crazy workaholic, obsessed with “deals” and making money and fueling my oversized…
What were the Redneck’s last words before he died? Answer: watch this fellas! Men are conquerors, if this were not true, America would’ve never been discovered. Our…
How many Virginians does it take to change a light bulb? Five. One to change the bulb and four to talk about how the old bulb was better. Nothing is revered more in Virginia than the past.…
Dear Reader, I just read the Supreme Court’s Students For Fair Admissions opinion. Indeed, I have sacrificed sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and a good fireworks show such that I can…
Boy have I had a busy week! I get a lot of packages from supermodels sending me their undergarments, usually with a very suggestive handwritten perfumed note. Being the shy Caspar…
During the “Covid Crisis,” I was busy with a butterfly net catching coronavirus particles, bagging them up and then burning them in a big bonfire. Who knows how many lives I…
I came home one day, and my boy Coleman and his pal Adam were downstairs in the basement playing the Madden football video game. I could hear them dissing each other and whupping it up like…
Growing up I always thought my mother was a Gestapo agent who somehow snuck through United States customs, learned English and disguised herself as a native born American. Then when I was 8…
The solutions to so many of the world’s problems are not only right in front of our faces, but have been in front of our faces for centuries. By now we know how wealth is created:…
When John Tamny asked me to write a book review of A Gentleman in Moscow , I knew immediately what resonated with me and how I wanted to convey these thoughts. But as a couple of weeks…
April 5, 2023 Mr. Kevin Hallock President of the University of Richmond 410 Westhampton Way Richmond, VA 23173 Dear Mr. Hallock: The chief advantage of the written word over other forms of…
You don’t need to get an economics degree from Princeton to understand economics. In fact, it will likely imbue you with a dangerous level of self-importance and indoctrinate you with…
My Jewish friends tell the best Jewish jokes. It is a fundamental truth that when one is secure in their own skin, they can laugh at themselves. I loathe the namby, pamby, sissified culture…
As you are reading this I am likely flying over the Mediterranean on my way to Israel. It’s a Holy Land trip. I know it will be hard on a lot of you for me to be incommunicado for 10…
January 30, 2023 Mr. Kevin Hallock President of the University of Richmond 410 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA 23173 Dear Mr. Hallock: One of the most basic tenets of our Judeo-Christian…
Here is something you won’t hear anywhere else. It is clear that Joe Biden is being ratted out in the classified document scandal, but by whom? Tucker Carlson is convinced it is a…
