Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director of the New York-based Center for the Study of Corruption and the Rule of Law (and the author of the forthcoming book Funding Evil), explores Yasser’s enormous monetary stash in this guest commentary column for The National Review. An excerpt: Experts estimate that the $1.3 billion Arafat controls could feed three million Palestinians for a year, buy 1,000 mobile intensive-care units, fund ten hospitals for a decade,

Ah, the lengths some people will go just to see an oil-glazed, glistening, nut-brown Italian nipple…

Big deal. I mean, oily palms? What’s a little minor stigmata compared to the majesty of the Milwaukee Jesus Tree…?

An unlikely supporter of the reparations movement, conservative columnist Michele Malkin takes out her calculator and begins crunching her own reparations numbers. The result? — K-ching!: A year and a half ago, when this self-pitying business of slavery reparations first took off, I whipped out my own reparations calculator. I urge others to do the same, and start clamoring for your own personal payoff: My ancestors from the Philippines were

hick: (hk) Informal n. A person regarded as gullible or provincial:

“A 31-year-old woman working in a kiosk in

Men in the London workplace — calm, compassionate, charitable, helpful; women in the London workplace — violent, dangerous, fistacuffs-prone shrews. Or something like that.

curmudgeon: (kr-mjn) n. An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions; a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas.

VH-1 offers its list of the “100 Greatest One Hit Wonders” of all time — a snarky* attempt by the Video Musak station to denigrate some wonderful, lasting ditties. Included on VH-1’s list, for instance, are such great tunes as David Soul’s (yes, that David Soul) “Don’t Give Up on Us, Baby,” Suzie Quatro’s (aka “Leather Tuscadero,” for you “Happy Days” fans) “Stumblin in,” the Musical Youth’s “Pass the Dutchie,”

Some stories require no comment. Here’s one such, from the Cincinnati Enquirer: Everything worked out in the end in the wait for a stolen ring that police say was swallowed by their suspect. But a detective said he will seek more felony charges against 30-year-old Sean Hargrave — for allegedly producing the evidence earlier in the week, then hiding it again. Tuesday, the missing $2,500 diamond engagement ring, first discovered