Author: AF Editors

By Dec 22,2009

Obama vs. Petraeus on nation-building

Barack Obama, December 1: There are those who oppose identifying a time frame for our transition to Afghan responsibility. Indeed, some call for a more dramatic and open-ended escalation of...

By Dec 21,2009

Bah, humbug

Jesuit James Martin has had it up to here with our commercialized Christmas: “Magic” is another popular word on Madison Avenue: Pier One’s catalog says, “Make Christmas Magic!” Sadly, all...

By Dec 21,2009

The geopolitics of nonsense

This holiday season, my wife indulged one of my lowbrow habits by gifting me with a 3-DVD collection of pro-wrestling highlights from the 1980s, entitled The Best of Saturday Night’s...

By Dec 21,2009

A fine day for global warming

It’s a snow day here in the nation’s capital, with most folks still digging out from under the foot and a half of snow that fell on Saturday. Wouldn’t the...

By Dec 14,2009

Getting hotter in 2010?

Kevin Drum writes that the return of El Nino may make 2010 the hottest year on record, taking some wind out of the sails of George Will and others who...