Word Watch – August 2009
Recently I had the pleasure of explaining an old expression to my young friend Liam Vavasour. We were discussing electoral predictions, and I mentioned that …
Recently I had the pleasure of explaining an old expression to my young friend Liam Vavasour. We were discussing electoral predictions, and I mentioned that …
Did you ever see such a festival of bad logic as the one that has consistently attended the gay marriage debate? Each side maintains that …
The subject for this month is linguistic mysteries – the things you hear or read that make you wonder, sometimes with amusement, sometimes with disgust, …
Liberty senior editor Bruce Ramsey has written the first real biography of Garet Garrett (1878-1954), an important precursor of today’s American libertarian movement. There was …
Whatever you think of Mike Huckabee’s campaign for president (and I don’t think very much of it), it has had one remarkable feature: his TV …
My friend Liam Vavasour, whose writing has appeared in these pages, entertained me at dinner the other night with a suggestion about the health and …
A recent article on cancer myths, distributed online by Johns Hopkins and flagged by Yahoo as a Number 1 story, bewails the fact that 390/0 …
When, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton broke down and cried, I felt for her. Here is an intelligent and capable …
President Bush is rightly challenged for his bumbling rhetoric and undiagrammable syntax. But worse could follow. Consider Hillary Clinton, responding to her defeat in Iowa …
I know it’s a movie-house cliche, but it’s scary nonetheless – the story of the demon twin, the entity that seems identical to some nice, …