The only good thing which could result from Bibi Netanyahu’s May 24 speech to a joint session of the US Congress is that it may open people’s eyes after a very long nap. If so, it will have served a useful purpose and could be a turning point. A lot of intelligent Americans and ...
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 marked “The End of History" and, as a natural result, the end of war. Since global communism"perceived as the ...
It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Yes, the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is a nutcase and a bloodstained dictator who deserves a merciless kick in the pants and to be bastinadoed within an inch of his life. But the important question ...
The massive 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northern Japan will be a game-changer. Both negatively and positively, the reverberations will be felt across all continents. Japan has been in a recession for twenty years. Some commentators have called them the Lost Decades. Patrick Buchanan ...
Would you vote for The Donald for president? Compared to Obama, anyone with sense would vote for him. Obama is a disaster, like Bush II before him. But what about Trump when compared to other potential Republican candidates such as Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, or Sarah Palin? Trump recently appeared ...
Last week a country-club Republican friend in Palm Beach gave me a copy of The Weekly Standard and urged me to read “A World in Crisis: What the thirties tell us about today” by opinion editor Matthew Continetti. The article would have the reader believe that the universe’s fate ...
I do not have many friends who are 97, but tennis legend Gardnar Mulloy is one of them. It is not clear why I should be so lucky to know him, nor why I should have had the opportunity to square off against him on the tennis court. When I first played him singles in the mid-1980s, Gardnar was ...
Did anyone catch that movie last Sunday morning at ten on the TCM channel? If you did, you are probably still thinking about it like I am. If you missed it, you have a second chance this Friday, Christmas Eve, at high noon. I’m referring to It Happened on Fifth Avenue, a little 1947 ...
As a history buff, I have tried to come to terms with the “surprise” Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. That lugubrious anniversary"December 7th"is fast approaching. For its impact upon American history, Pearl Harbor ranks alongside Fort Sumter's bombardment on April 12, 1861. My ...
I can vaguely remember a time when there were no security checks whatever before getting on a commercial jet. You showed your ticket and walked onboard. When was that? I’m not sure. Maybe in the early 1970s. I remember when National Airlines, under Lewis "Bud" Maytag's innovative ...
