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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” P.J. O'Rourke

By Gillian Tett March 18 2011 Last week I popped into the American Girl store in Manhattan, the giant consumer temple that sells wholes...

by Dr Zero Look at the world through the eyes of Hamas and its apologists, and ask yourself: what’s the point of sending a couple of boats f...

By now, you’ve probably watched the death of Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax on YouTube.  In the early morning hours of April 18, on a sidewalk in Qu...

For the primary task of reason is to cope consciously with the limitations imposed upon man by nature, to fight against scarcity. Ludwi...

The hole where doughnuts used to be Wednesday 23 March 2011 Innocent snacks in the workplace could fall victim to the Lib-Cons’ outsourcin...

The grief of those bereaved following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, their attempts to somehow get on with their lives, to salvage ...

How to Use New Auction Sites to Nab Must-Have Merchandise for up to 95% Off Retail Have you ever heard of "Penny Auctions?" They...

Rapists and killers demand right to benefits Murderers and rapists locked up in psychiatric hospitals are challenging the British Government...

EHRC now targets 'gay-only' guesthouses. Just in case any straight Christian fundamentalists were planning a night in one           ...

Justice Department sues on behalf of Muslim teacher, triggering debate By Jerry Markon, Tuesday, March 22 BERKELEY, Ill. — Safoorah ...

In 43 years of medical practice, said the family’s GP, he had “never encountered a case of such appalling injustice”. To their neighbors, it...

'There is really no essential difference between the unlimited power of the democratic state and the unlimited power of the autocrat. ...

Welcome to our urban high schools, where kids have kids and learning dies. I n my short time as a teacher in Connecticut, I have muddled th...

Some environmentalists have a warped sense of humor . By now you may have heard that the man behind such heartwarming chick flicks as  B...

Death by a thousand cuts ...

People who see virtue in doing without electricity should shut off their fridge, stove, microwave, computer, water heater, lights, TV a...

Le Corbusier’s baleful influence Theodore Dalrymple Autumn 2009 L e Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one ...

''...so strange in retrospect that we were afraid of them. The Soviets were really best at harming their own citizens.'' ...