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,
August 15, 2002
Swoop! (There it is!)
Ah, the lengths some people will go just to see an oil-glazed, glistening, nut-brown Italian nipple…
Besides, I once saw Judah Macabee in a Thomas’ English Muffin…
Big deal. I mean, oily palms? What’s a little minor stigmata compared to the majesty of the Milwaukee Jesus Tree…?
Cultural Victimhood, Inc.
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
Word of the Day, no. 2
hick: (hk) Informal n. A person regarded as gullible or provincial:
From the “it’s better to be pissed-off” files…
“A 31-year-old woman working in a kiosk in
Sexism-ism
Men in the London workplace — calm, compassionate, charitable, helpful; women in the London workplace — violent, dangerous, fistacuffs-prone shrews. Or something like that.
Word of the Day, no. 1
curmudgeon: (kr-mjn) n. An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions; a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas.
