“Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the ...
In politics as in life, the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease, but the other three wheels are finally telling the squeaky wheel to shut the hell up. Fast food and public ...
WASHINGTON"I was visiting Pakistan's ambassador to the United States in the spring of 2011 when the phone on his desk rang. "The hotline," he said. "Sorry, I ...
The great South African Ernie Els recently won the British Open golf tournament in epic style. In victory he was gracious, kind, and humble. But then, as is the norm for white ...
Last week the NCAA saddled Penn State with penalties that may mean the university's end as a leading football competitor. Paterno's name came up in the proceedings as someone who ...
During the Olympics" opening ceremony last week, the lady on the TV described the United Kingdom as "four countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland." ...
Thucydides carefully structured his Peloponnesian War history as a cautionary tale about the moral decay that accompanies abuses of imperial power. “It is a general and ...
Voula Papachristou isn"t all Greek to me. What I mean is, the triple-jumper's blonde locks look downright Swedish. My experience with Hellenic femininity begins and ends ...
Has Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war? So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, ...
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he of the tiny fingers and ballet costumes, has lately taken to speaking about "values." Chicagoans are killing one another at a clip 40% ...
Nicholas Soames is Winston Churchill's grandson, a Conservative member of Parliament since the early 80s, a very large man whose food and drink intake is legendary, and an old ...
A senior Syrian government spokesman has confirmed that his nation possesses chemical weapons and might employ them against a "foreign aggressor." Bashar al-Assad's ...
Last year I wrote about the anti-circumcision campaign here in California, and now another chapter in the Foreskin Chronicles has opened up in Germany. Whereas the California ...
“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone ...
Journalists call August the "silly season" because according to legend there is no news and so their job requires them to use even more fantasy than usual. But the global ...
The greatest distinguishing factor between countries in which there is some freedom and those where authoritarian governments manage personal behavior is the Rule of Law. The idea ...
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