James M. Larkin
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Hired Guns
A mercenary is a mercenary, whether or not we call him a contractor. And the trade of the firm once
Pep Poise
So the Girl Talk pep rally ended in ignominy. Audience members were shoved and crushed to the point of bruising,
More Dirt
Something’s rotten in the neighborhood of Roxbury. And the city of Detroit. And the state of Alaska. Corruption charges and
The Measure of a Man
It comes perhaps as no surprise that Americans appreciate above all things the need for a stout, bright heart in
Worth Watching
Democrats are fed up. They’ve now been given several manufactured, make-or-break Tuesdays, and yet the primary churns on. Now things
Locking the Gates
Monday, I tried to tell a high school junior on a college tour what life is like at Harvard. He
A Tainted Legacy
In an unsettling return to the Reagan Era—still the cause of some mourning in America—viewers of major news programs were
Finding ‘Freedom’
Along with what is fast becoming an irredeemably bleak legacy, the Bush administration will leave behind a lexicon that even
In Defense of Pig Farmers
Today, droves of urbane politicos and journalists will check out of the Des Moines Ramada with their business settled, and
For Thirty Pieces of Silver
Rock on, James Dobson. Sorry for ever doubting you. It may be time for America to give the good Christian
