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

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,...