Author: AF Editors

By • Mar 17,2009

Quotation of the day

From a man who knew his business, James Matheson of Jardine, Matheson & Co. — one of the original opium runners and hence founders of Hong Kong: “The Gazelle was...

By • Mar 04,2009

Stooping to Rush’s Level

In the clip below, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs does a pretty pathetic job of defending himself, and the president, against charges of hypocrisy for engaging in the sort of...

By • Feb 27,2009

The Black Presidents Before Obama

Barack Obama was not the first African-American elected to the presidency. By my count, he was the seventh. It was just that he was the first nonfiction one. While pundits...

By • Feb 26,2009

Sidestepping a New Malaise

Obama’s ongoing task is to honestly assess the place in which Americans find themselves, but he must do so in a way that does not boomerang on him, pulling the...