Can you vote by not voting? In a presidential election year in which the critical issues have been how much personal behavior the federal government should regulate and how much ...
Who is the real Barack Obama? It's an odd question to ask about an incumbent president less than a week before he's up for reelection. It's an especially strange inquiry to make ...
Some of my best friends are "birthers." So far I"ve resisted the temptation to sign up with them, although I loved that bit about the signature on that Hawaiian ...
Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the ...
Four years ago, a starry-eyed, hopeful, and fatally credulous nation elected Barack Obama to the presidency based largely on some dimwitted notion that he would usher us into a ...
A detailed report in The New York Times tells about a hearing taking place in the Russian Parliament emphasizing alleged American human-rights violations. Among the featured ...
Day after day, Italian newspapers pullulate with deeply disturbing examples of the antics of Italy's judges. But this past week has been a vintage one even by Italian standards. ...
After the last presidential debate, many conservatives were disappointed in Romney. Bill O"Reilly had said this was Mitt's chance to put the final nail in Obama's coffin but ...
I was reading one of the angrier conservative bloggers the other day when I came to a sentence where he referred to President Obama as a “communist.” It stopped my ...
Mostly since John Milton's Satan, we"ve perversely preferred our villains seductive: charming, witty, brilliant, and physically graceful"sometimes precariously more so ...
“It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven’t had such discussions,” said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of ...
We're not electing the President of the World ...
In modern Anglo democracies, no more than one national election in ten offers a choice between fundamentally contrasting policies. I have never been eligible to cast a vote in ...
On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. ...
Canada wouldn’t let Terry Jones into the country last week, and you’re thinking: “Who can blame them? He was the least funny Python.” But I’m ...
When Scotland and England were united formally in 1707, the Scottish Earl of Seafield remarked in smug satisfaction, "There's the end of an auld sang." But if the Scottish ...
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