Kirk

The American cinema is marked by great Jewish actors such as Paul Newman, Harrisson Ford, Sean Penn, Kirk Douglas, Woody Allen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson ...

The actor Kirk Douglas was dishing up plates of food, as he does here every Thanksgiving.

The Kirk of Star Trek: The Original Series was nothing like the way he's written today.

Charlie Kirk was a far-right firebrand.

Charlie Kirk upstaged 9/11.

Did JD Vance kill Charlie Kirk?

When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.

I suspect that members of the Church of Scotland who stop going, stop thinking of themselves as part of the Kirk much more readily.

One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.