John Hayward

Awww, look who’s got a new pen pal!  None other than Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, who is inexplicably still capable of such activities as sending letters, and breathing.  The world’s most infamous perpetrator of “workplace violence” wants

The Heckler’s Veto is becoming one of the preferred instruments of cultural control and speech suppression in America.  It’s fairly easy to pull off: you just have to convince the authorities – college administrators, the police, the hosts of a

Aficionados of horror fiction must occasionally deal with the inherent flaw of the genre: a horror film or book can succeed so well at being frightening, disturbing, or repulsive that it fails as entertainment.  The audience response is, “Wow, that

Media bias doesn’t consist entirely, or even primarily, of outright falsehoods.  It’s expressed through the stories our media herd chooses not to tell, because they don’t fit easily into preferred narratives… and which stories they lavish saturation coverage upon, because

The same media outlets that couldn’t wait to hype the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri are tiptoeing very delicately around the beating of Iraq veteran Ralph Weems in Mississippi.  Weems is a white man severely beaten last Saturday

The inability of the federal government to launch a website presented a big crisis for managerial liberalism.  It’s also a spectacular example of how the government burns through money like there’s no tomorrow.  The total cost of the crap ObamaCare

Until now, the left-wing hyperventilating over corporate “inversions” has been out of proportion to the number and size of corporations actually doing it.  This is partly because Democrats are looking forward to using the issue in a populist anti-corporate crusade.

Fortunately all of America’s problems appear to be solved, and the government is swimming in cash, because a million federal dollars have been poured into what the Washington Free Beacon describes as “an online database that will track ‘misinformation’ and

I’ve always been fascinated by the differences between charity and government-provided welfare entitlements.  There are many practical differences, of course, including the eternal left-wing contention that voluntary charity can never adequately provide for the needs of the destitute, so an

Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” is a coming-of-age story about ordinary people, filmed using a remarkable technique: it took 12 years to complete the movie, with a few scenes filmed every year using the same cast.  The main character, a boy named

The hackers who busted into the credit card system for Target stores hit a thousand other businesses too, in an online crime spree big enough to get the Department of Homeland Security involved.  The New York Times reports that DHS

In response to ISIS and the Obama Administration’s Drumbeat of War: This is one of the reasons Obama’s dogged insistence on showing himself a good time in a moment of crisis – laughing and fist-bumping with his golf buddies within

The Boston Globe headlines its editorial on the hideous murder of American journalist James Foley “Beheading of Foley Exposes True Nature of ‘Islamic State.’” I’m sorry, guys, but putting the name of the new caliphate into scare quotes is too

Leftists believe one should never let a crisis go to waste.  Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont certainly isn’t going to let the Ferguson riots pass by without using them as theater to push a big “jobs” bill – you

At long last, after six years of dismal failure, there is clear evidence that Barack Obama’s policies finally managed to stimulate an industry.  The Washington Examiner tells us that “coyote” smugglers are doing great business across the porous southern border

It’s been a while since we had a bracing dose of zero-tolerance insanity from America’s loopy educational system.  Take it away, NBC News in South Carolina! A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended

This morning John Nolte brought us the remarkable news that some significant number of people – significant enough to generate some Salon click-bait, at any rate – think Taylor Swift’s new music video is racially insensitive.  It would make a

After relating a highly amusing incident in which a crestfallen Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was brusquely told by President Obama to deal with Republican leader Mitch McConnell on his own (just try to imagine the expression on the Crypt

I appreciate what the new movie (and 20-year-old book upon which it is based) “The Giver” was trying to say enough to feel bad about giving the film a tepid review, but I’ve got to call ’em like I see

In response to Holder DOJ Behind the Suppression of Michael Brown Robbery Video : I find this whole idea of suppressing the truth because it might be “inflammatory” to be incredibly offensive, not to mention obviously ineffectual.  The people who

In response to Perry Indictment Looks ‘Pretty Thin’ “Fishy’ and ‘Sketchy’ Say …Far Left Libs?: Those are some interesting reactions from liberals, who should be given credit for intellectual honesty, and fighting back their natural urge to see Rick Perry

When I first saw a trailer for “The Giver” earlier this summer, I thought it looked like “Equilibrium” for the “Hunger Games” set.  That 2002 Christian Bale film has long been a guilty pleasure of mine.  As it turns  out,

The Washington Post relates a fascinating little cloak-and-dagger story that ends with a heck of a punchline: a U.S. defense contractor was apparently working with foreign companies that create spyware and virus programs to develop new tools for spying on

With all the talk of militarized police flying around these days, and the name of Robocop frequently invoked (or his image dragged into Photoshop tomfoolery) in criticism of the police response to the Ferguson riots, this seemed like a good