Operation Enduring Operation

Most versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian slew the dragon, he went home. Task accomplished, deed done, dragon's blood dry on his lance, and ...

Osama Bin Laden

Bin Laden Wins!

"€œBin Laden Wins!"€ should be the cover headline on TIME magazine this week, rather than the hackneyed, he's-as-bad-as-Hitler cover with the red “X” through his ...

King George III

Temper Tantrums of the Parvenus

Although I"€™ve spent considerable time and energy analyzing the tics of the American conservative movement's neoconservative master class, I have failed to call attention to ...

Osama’s Dead—But Are His Ideas?

When President Obama announced that U.S. special forces had helicoptered into Pakistan, broken into a secret compound an hour from the capital and killed Osama bin Laden, ...

Europe’s Culture War Against America

Socialist elements within the European Union disapprove of America and welcome any opportunity to criticize and undermine it. Three topics will facilitate their attack"€”the ...

An Expat Named Superman

There were two huge stories last week in American mythmaking: The United States has slain Public Enemy Number One, and Superman is renouncing his American citizenship. Barack ...

Vanishing American Footprint

With his order to effect the execution of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs, 40 miles from Islamabad, without asking permission of the government, Barack Obama made a bold and ...

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How We Squandered the Peace Dividend

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and effectively ended the Cold War, there was tremendous relief and a sense of hope for the future. One writer even boldly declared that it ...

Abbottabad, Pakistan

A Good Day in Abbottabad

Though Abbottabad's eponymous founder might approve of the rough justice OBL received there early Monday morning, something is very wrong with the establishment that calls the old ...

Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden’s Body Politic

Osama bin Laden is dead (supposedly). And what has it cost us? A decade-long war in Afghanistan which has thus far taken over 1,000 American lives with close to another 10,000 ...

T.E. Lawrence

Leave Syria to the Syrians

This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen to be him or her, take my advice: Do nothing. Especially in Syria. Let all the ...

Michael Moore

Limo Driver Murders Limousine Liberal!

It's no coincidence that both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were born into cozy bourgeois households nestled high above the dirty claws of proletarian squalor. Neither is it a ...

Barack Obama

Hate Speech Makes a Comeback

Well, it sure didn’t take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse. After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal ...

Ron Paul

2012 Election Preview

The politicians are beginning to shuffle into place for next year’s presidential contest. (Or out of place: Haley Barbour announced this week that he won’t try for the ...

Deeply Invested in the Middle East

With the so-called Arab Spring still shaking the Middle East like an earthquake, I don"€™t doubt that reform is needed in that region. But America's actions there are driven ...

World Government Aborning?

On a recent trip to New York, I did something radically different from my usual forays back to the city of my birth: I visited the UN headquarters. To be sure, my One-Worlder ...


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