The Battle of Brooklyn

Written by William Bryk on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

It was June 19, 1776, and the British had come. McCurtin, a private in the Continental army, later wrote that the “whole Bay was full of shipping as it ever could be” and the masts of the ships moored by Staten Island “resembled a forest of pine trees with their branches trimmed.” Gen. Sir William Howe, commanding His Majesty’s forces
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Has Gore Hit Bottom?

Written by Russ Smith on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Hillary Sucks Up the Media’s Gush and Mush I’ve cleared all my bets, prematurely, from the Bill Clinton/MonicaLewinsky/impeachment saga. Which means I posted $400 to Jim Larkin in Phoenix; $1000 to Alex Cockburn in Petrolia, CA; and divvied up smaller bundles among staffers at the office. It’s lamentable, but certain, that Clinton won’t be driven from office before his term expires—although
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The Nation Explains Youth Violence

Written by Andrey Slivka on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

There’s a depressing, not to mention inadvertently funny, article in the July 19 Nation that’s worth examining for anyone who’s fascinated, as I am, by the left’s effeteness and milksop inefficacy. How do these people presume to accomplish anything of worth if their magazines keep defining themselves with articles like this one? Entitled “Did Buffy Do It?” the article, by
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NATO’s Insecurity Forces in Bosnia

Written by Richard Byrne on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Sarajevo—There was a big turnout at the NATO SFOR (“Stabilization Force”) Press Center in downtown Sarajevo two weeks ago, where NATO’s outgoing Secretary-General Javier Solana gave a press conference. Solana was a regular visitor here back in the day when the NATO peacekeeping operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina was the alliance’s biggest chore. A few months of bombing Yugoslavia and the task
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Sick of Rich & Clinton, Scared of Struwwelpeter

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MUGGER: After reading Frank Rich’s July 3 op-ed piece “The Summer of Matthew Shepard” in The New York Times, I researched your columns containing the words “Frank Rich.” You must induct this man into your permanent shit list. Rich examines with exaggerated sensitivity the consequences of intolerance toward homosexuals. His impassioned defense of gay rights—a tutorial on meta-ethics—unfairly associates anyone
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Were Some Pirates Poofters?

Written by John Strausbaugh on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Were a lot of pirates poofters? Or to put that more politely: Was there much homosexual activity in pirate society? On the surface it seems one of those Pope-Polish questions. Gay historian B.R. Burg, in his classic, and controversial, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition (originally published by NYU Press in 1983), simply assumed that of course there was, and offered
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