Turmoil in the banking industry isn’t the only crisis to hit Cyprus in the past few years. There was also a major flap involving the KEO Brewery, whose largest shareholder is the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. According to Agence France Presse, a bottle of KEO beer was prominently featured in a movie that included scenes shot in a Greek tavern in New York. While most businesses would appreciate product placement of this sort, the Cypriot Orthodox clergy were not amused by the highly pornographic nature of the movie in question. Anticipating the inevitable questions from alert readers (ARs) whose inquiring minds want to know, I do not know the name of the movie or the Greek tavern where these scenes were filmed…

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Back in 1970, when I was in army basic training at Fort Jackson, SC, the men in my unit spent a lot of time complaining about officers and making fun of them. We ridiculed everyone in our chain of command from President Richard Nixon…

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Harvard University and I have something in common: a birthday. I was born on October 28, 1948 at the old St. John’s Hospital in the Central West End. More than three centuries earlier, on October 28, 1636, the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had passed…

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I take great pride in this column’s commitment to taking on issues of global significance. In that spirit I think it’s appropriate to say something about the nation’s colossal trade deficit. As an American-owned brewery—over 90% of the beer consumed in the United States is brewed in foreign-owned breweries…

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The St. Louis Walk of Fame on Delmar in the University City Loop includes some distinguished poets who have at one time or another called St. Louis home: Maya Angelou, T. S. Eliot and Eugene Field among them.  It also includes the eminently quotable Yogi Berra, who’s almost as famous for his aphorisms as for his baseball skills.  Someone who is not included, but in my opinion deserves to be considered, is James Milton Campbell, Jr., aka Little Milton, who penned…

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Schlafly Beer will officially celebrate its 21st birthday on December 26th.  As a former English major I naturally turned to the world of literature to find the meaning of this milestone, specifically A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman:

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say…

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My mother, Adelaide Mahaffey Schlafly, was born on July 19, 1915, five years before the first presidential election in which women were allowed to vote. Thirty-three years later, in 1948, it wasn’t a legal prohibition that prevented her from voting in the presidential election…

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To paraphrase Frank Sinatra, 1964 was a very good year for lots of reasons. It was the year of the so-called British invasion, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was the year Ford introduced the Mustang to the public…

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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. While visitors to Las Vegas often rely on this axiom while frolicking on The Strip, the protective shield of omerta isn’t 100% effective, as Britain’s Prince Harry recently…

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“Just the facts, ma’am.” As every alert reader (AR) who ever watched the TV series Dragnet knows, this was the signature of line of Sergeant Joe Friday, who was played by Jack Webb. The only problem is that Sergeant Friday never …

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