I first saw “Diggstown” in a theater, which means I saw it in 1992 after returning from the recently-collapsed USSR. In Cincinnati. I immediately tagged it as classic, passed it onto my sons, more avid movie-goers who concurred. But I…
Category: Race and Culture
Everyone is Smart Except Trump by Dov Fisher, American Spectator
(I have long been a follower of Bob Tyrell, (R Emmett Tyrell, Jr) founder and editor of American Spectator. His coach at Indiana U recruited my son to swim for IU (went to Miami U instead) but Doc Counsilman and…
21 and Stupid
Every college kid remembers when he turned 21 because it was the day he could use his own drivers’ license to get into the Boom-Boom Room. That was in the first semester of my sophomore year, 1966. There were a lot…
Revs Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Call Your Office. They’re Back
And while you’re at it, get John Lewis and Elijah Cummings to throw their weight around. And would some of ya’ll shut Maxine up, and remind her just how many people went to jail and took a beating on the…
Defining Conservatism Back to Reality
GK Chesterton, writing about English Progressives and Conservatives, wrote in 1924: The business of progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent those mistakes being corrected. Even if the revolutionist might repent of his…