P.J. O'Rourke News

 
Hawaii Reporter
Grassroot Perspective: Gambling with Green, the Fed's Guessing Game, and More
Hawaii Reporter
PJ O'Rourke Each week, we'll be monitoring the web to find the most interesting, challenging, or important items for those who are concerned about liberty, accountability, and big government. Here are some of the highlights from the past week: In his ...


 
National Post (blog)
PJ O'Rourke: Getting out of the 'shithole' to have some fun
National Post (blog)
In a new book, which is excerpted below, PJ O'Rourke details his transition from war correspondent to family man: After the Iraq War I gave up on being what's known in the trade as a “shithole specialist.” I was too old to be scared stiff and too stiff ...


 
PJ O'Rourke smokes liberalism
New Hampshire Watchdog
By Grant Bosse on January 26, 2012 The pride, and sometimes shame, of New Hampshire, PJ O'Rourke, has written as essay for The Weekly Standard explaining why progressive elites hate poor people. Smoking is wrong. Progressive elites may be confused ...


 
February's top business book
StartupSmart
Boomerang is the financial equivalent of PJ O'Rourke's 1989 classic Holidays in Hell. It travels via Iceland to Greece, on to Ireland and into Germany before finally coming to rest in a place called Vallejo. That's a town in one of the most bankrupt ...


 
Hillsdale Collegian
Behind the scenes at the CCA
Hillsdale Collegian
On Sunday night, CCA speaker PJ O'Rourke asked for a glass of scotch during his book signing. Junior Amanda Rubino, who works in the CCA office, said interacting with speakers and Hillsdale College donors during CCA weeks is one of the more interesting ...


 
When skiing becomes more like snow-flying
CITY A.M.
The American satirist PJ O'Rourke had little time for snow sports. As he put it: “Skiing consists of wearing $3000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.” That might not have been ...


 
Libertarians have a point
Longboat Key News
Libertarians generally believe that the least government is best; they demand nothing except, according to PJ O'Rourke, “the one thing which no government in history has been able to do — leave us alone.” The Unitarian message has always been ...