By Jan 17,2009

Historical illiteracy

How historically illiterate do you have to be to write a post like this, a post that ignores some pretty basic, fundamental, and scarring moments from very recent American history…unless,...

By Jan 16,2009

Why Hamas will win the war in Gaza

Word is a ceasefire in Gaza will be reached before Obama’s inauguration, at the very latest, if not a couple days before. It’s still unclear what gains Israel has made,...

By Jan 16,2009

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Right now in Chicago with its subzero temperatures, you would think we were living through a nuclear winter to hear the media tell it. How refreshing to read this paean...

By Jan 16,2009

Sharansky on disproportionate force

Via Commentary, I see that Natan Sharansky has an interesting column up at Bloomberg on the historical parallels between the second intifada and Hamas’s attacks on Israel over the last...

By Jan 16,2009

Brose on Bush's farewell address

Hot off the presses. Read it here: There was a time after 9/11 when America needed a president who saw the people who had just attacked us as a world-conquering,...