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On September 11, 1960, with nearly one hundred like-minded intellectual activists and agitators in the living room of his Sharon, Connecticut home, William F. Buckley Jr. created Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), his third seminal contribution to conservatism, after having written God and Man at Yale (1951) and having founded
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More than anyone else, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick would bring much more harmony to Republicans than to the masses should he formally announce a 2020 presidential candidacy. And more so than Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Patrick is still today's marquee progressive. A gift for the GOP. Patrick
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Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, Lift up your voice like a trumpet blast …" — Isaiah 58:1a
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For over two hundred years water has flowed underneath a bridge in the Blackstone Valley corridor of the smallest state in the union that, over one hundred years ago, powered the largest and most modern textile mill of its day, which helped launch the Industrial Revolution. The Slatersville Stone Arch
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"Faster than a speeding bullet.More powerful than a locomotive.Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's…" — Introduction to the television series The Adventures of Superman
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Vice President Mike Pence was probably just following the many examples of his superior. On the South Lawn at the White House, celebrating the passage of the Republican tax cut with President Donald Trump and many members of Congress, Pence proclaimed an outrage: "Merry Christmas America." Good Lord!
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"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools" — William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act V, Scene V) The struts and frets of 2017 confirm we are on a portentous path to a dusty death.
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Ken Lowson chuckles. In January 2005, he spent $200,000 using credit cards to obtain 5,000 memberships to U2's fan club. That allowed him to participate in the Internet presale via Ticketmaster to purchase tickets for the Vertigo Tour. Using computer programming (popularly known as "bots&