Prince Andrew has settled out of court.
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Obituary: Noted satirist P.J. O'Rourke, 74, died today after a battle with lung cancer. I read little of his work, but he was highly regarded by readers all across the political spectrum (he leaned libertarian right although he supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2016).
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O'Rourke began his career writing for the National Lampoon, and later led the foreign affairs desk at Rolling Stone, where he covered world politics from the Persian Gulf to the Philippines. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Later in life he contributed to more conservative outlets including The Weekly Standard and served as the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.
O'Rourke was born in Toledo, Ohio into a family, as he put it, "so normal as to be almost a statistical anomaly." His father sold cars and his mother was a housewife.
In the early 1990's he moved to New Hampshire, where he continued to write. According to his Grove Atlantic bio, O'Rourke lived there to get "as far away from the things he writes about as he can get." __________
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