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

Why Hamas Will Win in Gaza

The Palestinians in the picture below are carrying a boy killed by an Israeli military strike in Gaza, and they’ve wrapped his body in a Hamas flag adorned with the...

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,...

By • Jan 16,2009

BART shooting

I forgot to post something on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant last week, but Radley Balko has done a fine job of summarizing my immediate thoughts after seeing the...