Bitter Fruits
Impending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United States in the Near and Middle East. The first is ...
Impending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United States in the Near and Middle East. The first is ...
Because U.S. political leaders are ignorant of history, don"t give a hoot about it, or both, Washington's post-9/11 Afghan adventure was based on a plan for occupation and nation-building that history had long ago shown ...
In case you were planning a career as a nasty, mean-spirited shock-jock, who makes his living using his media pulpit to slam people who mostly can’t (or won’t) fight back, here’s a handy tip: Stick to ...
Just minutes from now (10:50 A.M. CST, January 22, 2008, as I write this), Norma McCorvey, better known by the name “Jane Roe,” is expected to endorse the only fully pro-life candidate in the race for the ...
Well, it’s morning—in San Francisco, at any rate—so let’s wipe the sand from our eyes and take a look at today’s links: Hey, remember the anthrax attacks? It’s funny, but practically ...
Despite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that his ideals and his ...
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. ... I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Thus did Joe Biden famously describe his rival ...
For all the yammering by talk-radio nitwits and GOP chicken hawks about "supporting the troops," it's quite ironic that these same pundits and politicians have had little to say about the many high-ranking troops ...
If "Gimme That Old Time Religion" isn"t Barack Obama's campaign song yet, it should be. After starting July by endorsing an Obamized version of George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, St. Barack then appeared ...
Is it me, or were the 15 British sailors and marines held by the Iranians just a little too gabby? Now that they"re home, the former hostages are repudiating their statements saying that they had intruded into Iranian ...
Thirty years ago this week my daughter was three and my son had not been born. I had left Gstaad for gloomy, strike-ridden, non-stop power cuts London, and the mother of my children was peeved at me as I had begun circling ...
Having looked at the review of Pat's latest book by John Lukacs and the critical remarks offered by Takimag-contributors and having seen the defense of the American Conservative's commissioning of John's review posted by ...
A “Guardianista” is, in the English variant of our common language, someone who ascribes to the general viewpoints of The Guardian newspaper. It’s more than just reading it (as I do) or writing for it (as ...
After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant! On learning his trusted aide from Texas Scott McClellan has denounced as an ...
Henry Kissinger wrote just one of the raft of letters written to Judge Reggie Walton (373 of them altogether), the vast majority of which sought clemency for Scooter Libby. This was after Libby had been convicted by the ...
Bizarrely enough it actually transpires that a man who thinks dancing is wrong and nudie sculptures distracting can also believe that, national emergency or no, the rule of law is the rule of law, and Attorneys General are ...
Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo ...
I have a piece in the (British) Guardian on Ron Paul, which I dashed off a bit too quickly, but it reads pretty well in spite of that. What’s interesting is the comments section, which—due to a notice in the ...
Ah, the fifties. You had to be ...
A major problem for those on our side of the fence is the unwillingness of the liberal and neocon media to admit us into the public discussion. This has meant that independent authors and thinkers, who have stood ever so ...
I have always found it bizarre that some of the most pro-war Americans are pro-lifers. To be passionate enough to protest on a street corner in the hopes that you might save lives is something I can understand. Yet for ...
As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, Lee’s retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur’s retreat from the Yalu ...
When I point out to my conservative friends that in terms of federal spending and exploding deficits, Reagan’s limited government rhetoric didn’t always match reality, they are offended that I would dare ...
Ayn Rand wrote, “when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.” America is not yet doomed, but the fellows in Washington are ...
