Unca Darrell

SEPTEMBER 30 / Samuelson on . . .

. . . how to get richer.

There are two ways to become richer. One is . . .  

SEPTEMBER 30 / Make no mistake

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA wants a government shutdown. Admit it: You've never seen him so . . .

SEPTEMBER 29 / Louis Markos on the unwisdom . . .

. . . of crowds.

Don't let [the crowd] convince you that . . . 

SEPTEMBER 28 / It's still supper at Unca D's house

SOMEWHERE ALONG the way, supper became dinner. Or maybe dinner became supper. Or maybe supper just disappeared. I think it depends on where you live and what you were eating. It's all got a little whiff of . . .

SEPTEMBER 26 / Sometimes this job is just too easy

HERE'S WHAT the Houston Chronicle thinks 'bout Senator Cruz's talkathon. 

Cruz's faux filibuster was 21 hours of sound and fury, signifying . . .

SEPTEMBER 25 / Gregg on civilization

THIS BRINGS ME to what I think has to be conservatism's long-term agenda [and] a central element in any lasting conservative resurgence: the defense and promotion of what we should unapologetically call . . .

SEPTEMBER 23 / Louis Markos: The Secret to Happiness

LOUIS MARKOS, professor at Houston Baptist University, is writing weekly essays as advice to his son Alex, now in his freshman year at college. Here's the first.

The secret to happiness, my son, is . . .

SEPTEMBER 22 / A Christian perspective . . .

. . . on "Breaking Bad."

Breaking Bad is one of the most ethically complicated dramas on television today. The series explores themes . . .

SEPTEMBER 21 / Shane! Shane! Shane!

YOU'LL FIND a nice retrospective essay in today's Wall Street Journal's "Review" section on the great western movie, "Shane," on the occasion of its sixtieth birthday. It's the best movie ever made about the myth (in the nonpejorative sense of the word; see below) of the gunfighter as chivalric hero.   

The law did not exist on the frontier, and the nearest marshal . . .

SEPTEMBER 20 / The interview the left media cannot do . . .

. . . or stomach.

Houston-based radio talk-show host Michael Berry sits down here with . . .