Garcia, the actor and director known for such films as “The Godfather: Part III” and “The Untouchables,” was born in Havana, Cuba. “It ...

Babalú Blog used to be one of my hangouts. It is a group blog run by a man whose parents fled Castro's Cuba. Here is a roundup of some ...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro : “It is...

It's interesting having a diverse group of friends. Seems like half of them are cheering his demise, and the other half are posting wha...

A position paper from the Trump team calls for national reciprocity for concealed carry permits .

An argument against gun control : The American left supports gun bans, magazine bans, and the abolition of the 2nd Amendment wholly as a fun...

An academic argues that women always wait : Literature bears out Barthes’s claim and my experience: In books, it is always women who wait. ...

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We won't have any use for these ; our gathering today won't have much ideological diversity. Agree that America has a terrible gun c...

I have a sixteen-pound bird that I am slow-roasting at 165 degrees for twenty hours. This approach means you cannot possibly overcook it, a...

The comic -- by a now-former Marine Corps infantry Lance Corporal -- mostly treats the various indignities and hardships of a life that wasn...

Over at WeaponsMan , a hot tip on a gift for the ages- an incredibly high quality reproduction of the manuscript I.33, which, Dating from...

A liberal arts college in western Massachusetts has taken down the American flag on campus –leaving the flagpole bare until next semester –i...

In a far-ranging interview with the New York Times , the US president-elect was quoted as saying: "I condemn them. I disavow, and I con...

I didn't really expect him to prosecute Clinton. It goes against all the rules of a class to which he himself belongs, and to which he ...

Undocumented immigrants learn a lesson from Animal House . More than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought here as kids, myself i...

That's not true , boss. It was the whole problem with the Clinton Foundation, in fact. Trump's sense of self is completely tied...

In ancient Ireland, bards were supposed to be able to perform a kind of satire that was so punishing that it could cause boils to rise on th...