Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power by Ramesh Thakur; Brownstone Institute, 2023 ‘THE years of living with oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance.’ One undoubted hero is the author of these words, Ramesh […]
The Prisoner of Windsor by Mark Steyn; Stockade Books (April 2023) LAUGHTER is the balm of life, and if you are in need some of that balm I cannot direct you to a funnier book – one that makes you laugh out loud – than Mark Steyn’s novel, The Prisoner of Windsor, which he describes as a sequel to The […]
Dolly Parton granted a terminally ill man a wish last week — one he never imagined would come true but that was delivered at just the right time. LeGrand Gold of Orem, Utah, has been battling cancer for two years, according to KSL-TV. Recently, he was told the disease was spreading and that he should […]
Kate Rusby, Cadogan Hall, London KATE Rusby loves Christmas. Of her 22 albums, seven have been Christmas ones. For the last 17 years, she has done a December tour of unremittingly joyful songs and carols, adapting a tradition from the pubs of her native South Yorkshire of singing carols from Armistice Day to Christmas. Kate […]
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have once again been snubbed by the royal family. The couple, who gave up their royal duties in 2020 to start a new life in Los Angeles, were not mentioned at all in a behind-the-scenes BBC documentary entitled “The Coronation Year,” which followed the royal household in the […]
Many on the Left have long attempted to reframe the Christmas story to push their political agenda. They urge lax enforcement of immigration law by insisting that Jesus was a refugee. Now, they claim Jesus would be Palestinian today to undermine support for Israel’s response to Hamas’ massacre of innocents on Oct. 7. On Christmas […]
World War II: The First Culture War, by Robert Oulds; The Bruges Group (2023) I’M OLD enough to remember when the Second World War was relived daily in the playground, with less popular kids deployed as Germans. Three decades after the conflict ended, the Battle of Britain and D-Day lingered in boys’ imagination, as they read […]
Why celebrate Christmas? Why throw a party, instead of going to church, in the first place? Is not this religious holiday, by nature calling us to quiet contemplation? Did you know that Christmas celebrations were banned in Scotland until 1958? I certainly did not, not until my son started working on his sixth-grade “Christmas around […]
Tis the season for swatting. The latest reported victim is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. Her home was swatted on Christmas Day. The mayor was home at the time. Wu said she was shocked to open her door and see lots of flashing lights. She claimed, however, it didn’t disrupt her family’s evening. The police and […]
The Right Resistance: What I wanted for Christmas from the political class, but didn’t receive top of page bottom of page Source link
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