Lately it seems that the commentary on just about every sports event that is televised features an excessive use of the word “incredible” in the description of what is taking place on the field or in the arena of play. Baseball announcers are especially guilty, thanks to the availability of televised replays which many of… Continue reading

If you want to eviscerate Hillary Clinton and her “memoir”, who better to get the job done than the priceless P.J. O’Rourke: “However, it says something unflattering about our era that prominent political figures—who used to write declarations of independence, preambles to constitutions, Gettysburg addresses, and such—now use the alphabet only to make primitive artifacts,… Continue reading

In a closely guarded move, the Justice Department has been trying to persuade imprisoned former FBI agent John Connolly to tell all about his dealings with Whitey Bulger, the notorious murderer whom Connolly and other FBI agents protected in exchange for vital information about the North End Mafia and the Somerville Winter Hill Gang. Connolly… Continue reading

Yesterday’s vote by the UMass trustees supporting the university’s president in his battle with Gov. Mitt Romney and the state’s highest ranking law enforcement official is far from over, given the escalating campaign by Massachusetts’ two leading newspapers to oust him. Today’s devastating column by Howie Carr of the Boston Herald is a warm up… Continue reading

Victor Davis Hanson asks: What should the U.S. do now? “Keep quieter and carry a far bigger stick. Methodically and politely transfer, redeploy, and reduce troops from countries that have opposed our efforts of the past two years or whose populations simply profess no overt support for the United States. Seek real friends — the… Continue reading