P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.