Listen to our friend Roger Pilon, founder and director of Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, as he discusses the importance of the Magna Carta in America’s founding and its continuing influence today.
Django and Jimmie – It’s All Going to Pot
One of the strongest, most engaging country albums of 2015, writes Barry Mazor in the WSJ, comes from two long-time friends, one of whom is 82 and the other 78. “With Jimmie Rodgers-like audacity and sentiment, and Django Reinhardt style invention and swing, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard have been pursuing similar courses for over […]
A Toxic Culture with Terrible Morale
In yet another sign of incompetence, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has failed to detect smuggled mock explosives and banned weapons through U.S. airport checkpoints 96% of the time. ABC reports, “In one case, agents failed to detect a fake explosive taped to an agent’s back, even after performing a pat down that was prompted […]
The Farce of the TSA
“The TSA is very little more than an employment program swelling the ranks of the American Federation of Government Employees, a sure source of Democratic political donations (more than $5 million in recent years; it is the 29th largest single donor in the country), and a platform for patronage,” writes Kevin D. Williamson in NRO. […]
Cheerfully Spreading the Founders’ Message
On the heels of last week’s news that the economy actually shrank in the first quarter of 2015, more and more people are beginning to understand the harm overregulation, wastefulness, and excessive taxation does to the economy. Too much government strangles liberty, economic growth and opportunity. Even some Democrats think we have too much government, […]
Beautiful Savory Swimmers and Fine Eating
Tradition has it that the soft-shell crab season is marked with the first full moon in May. This past weekend, which happened to be the last weekend in May—full moon or not—Dick and I bought half a dozen. You want to buy them live, and directions for cleaning the critters are pretty straightforward, assuming you […]
Health Care’s Solyndra
The $27 billion spent on EHR (electronic health records) is money squandered, writes Charles Krauthammer. It has demoralized good physicians and led to patient neglect. I was reminded of this exchange upon receiving my med-school class’s 40th-reunion report and reading some of the entries. In general, my classmates felt fulfilled by family, friends and the […]
The Miracle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The only olive oil worthy of your consideration is extra virgin, but even the extra-virgin label doesn’t necessarily mean the oil is any good, writes Nancy Harmon Jenkins, perhaps the leading American authority on olive oil. In her latest book, Virgin Territory, Ms. Jenkins disputes the myths, half-truths and outright lies about this “good fat […]
Anticipating Experiencing Considerable Precipitation—RIP William Zinsser
William Zinsser died this month at the age of 92, at home, in his own bed, in his sleep. Does it get much better than that? Mr. Zinsser wrote 19 books. His most famous, On Writing Well, sold a million-and-a half copies, with the 30th anniversary edition issued in 2006. Mr. Zinsser’s clear, concise advice […]
Summertime and Rosé Is Easy
Is there anything more cliché ridden than calling rosé “food friendly”? It sort of like calling mustard and ketchup BBQ friendly, which of course is all true. Rosé wine is versatile because it lies somewhere between the extremes of red and white wines—more depth than a light white, but less intense than big, tannic reds. […]
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