NEW YORK CITY, New York — We were somewhere around the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the edge of Brooklyn when the sickness began to take hold. I remember my brother Sean saying something like “I need maybe seven Benadryl …” And I pulled over to the side of the road and found enough drugs to eradicate...
It’s an old routine—ripped from that part in Jurassic Park when the Brontosaurus first appears on screen in glorious CGI—and I recite it every time I visit the Prehistoric Forest, an abandoned amusement park just off the side of US-12 in the Irish Hills. “You’ve said you’ve got a T. Rex?” “Uh-huh.” “Say again?” “We...
If you’ve ever stuck your head inside a bag of Dum Dums and inhaled with an addict’s gusto, then you know what it’s like to breathe as you drive past the Spangler Candy Company factory in Bryan, Ohio. The manufacturer behind Dum Dums, Saf-T-Pops, Circus Peanuts, and 45 percent of the candy canes sold in...
At this point, many people have written deserving tributes to John McCain. And since it is impossible, of course, for an untested 20-year-old to rightly eulogize a man 61 years his senior, who spent six years being tortured in a Viet Cong prison camp — compounded with the additional pain of serving five consecutive terms...
Vice President Mike Pence encouraged the graduating class of Hillsdale College at the school’s 166th commencement Saturday to have faith in themselves, God, and America, which President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing for them to thrive in, he said. “The best news for all of you is that there are more job opportunities open in...