“There is just one place that can light my face — Gary, Indiana,” crooned con man Harold Hill in The Music Man — cheerfully oblivious to the knowledge that the idyllic Midwestern town that once abounded in opportunity would one day become a blighted urban “hellhole.” “Once the center of the country’s booming steel industry [...]

If Ron Paul wins a plurality of delegates in Nebraska, his name would be placed in nomination during the Tampa convention this August. This prospect terrifies the Romney campaign, which is riding the weakest and least convincing prospective GOP nominee since Bob Dole in 1996 – or perhaps even Wendell Willkie in 1940. With the [...]

Newt Gingrich — self-anointed “teacher of civilization,” self-appointed futurist, serial adulterer, campaign deadbeat, and implacable proponent of foreign war — reently visited Paris to confer his benediction on the so-called People’s Mujahadin (MEK), an exiled Iranian terrorist group that has murdered American citizens and was an ally of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. Gingrich, [...]

Andy Griffith, who passed away at the age of 83 on July 3, was a universally beloved and multi-faceted entertainer best known as the firm but easy-going Sheriff Andy Taylor and the avuncular defense attorney Ben Matlock. It’s worthy of note that in a career spanning six decades that included scores of film and television [...]

Minneapolis resident Zachary King committed no crime, and did nothing to provoke the police — yet a thugscrum of roughly a half-dozen of Minneapolis’s “Finest” threw him to the ground, beat him severely, and then jailed him without charge because one of them saw that he was carrying a licensed handgun. King, who has a [...]

Two years before endorsing their preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, future Senator Rand Paul denounced the Goldman Sachs banking conglomerate and the hyper-elitist Bilderberg cabal in a brief video interview for the activist group We Are Change. As a New York Times profile noted last January, Romney’s personal and political fortunes have long been wedded to [...]