I’m unnerved to learn that earlier this morning, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated near her home in Pakistan. It’s seemed to me for a long time that Pakistan has a critical role to play in the ongoing geopolitical struggle which we… Continue Reading
To the right is a portrait of a religious fanatic and a terrorist. Sure, he looks like a pilgrim ready to make nice with the Indians over some turkey and cranberries, but this was not a nice man. 402 years… Continue Reading
But some laughably bad ones, at that. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke today at Columbia University in New York, having previously been denied permission to go to Ground Zero and lay a wreath there, ostensibly to pay respect to the… Continue Reading
Among the more ridiculous — and inevitable — events of the past several years has been the prevalence of “truthers.” These are 9/11 conspiracy nuts, people who think that the U.S. government was responsible for 9/11. The History Channel has… Continue Reading
At least temporarily, the President is getting his way with domestic wiretapping after all. An astonishingly passive Congress passed a “temporary” revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and gave the power to authorize monitoring of communications between the U.S.… Continue Reading
Over the weekend, The Wife and I drove down to Beverly Hills to have dinner with some friends we hadn’t seen in a while. We had a wonderful dinner – as I wrote last week, good food and good wine… Continue Reading
I’m becoming quite an admirer of Professor Ilya Somin. Today, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Falkland Islands War, he writes quite convincingly that this relatively small conflict demonstrates that, in politics, there is nothing quite like a… Continue Reading
One of the world’s leading challengers to U.S. hegemony demonstrated his strength and grasp over power today by shutting down a TV station that aired points of view in opposition to his own. It is no coincidence that nations unfortunate… Continue Reading
Here’s an article in the Spectator (the British version) suggesting that we’ve had credible information about Saddam’s WMD bunkers since 2003, and haven’t exploited that rather splashy information because we moved too slowly to prevent the Saddam-era Iraqis from selling… Continue Reading