Item: While lawmakers receive threatening phone calls and their offices are vandalized in the aftermath of this week’s votes on health reform, Democrats and Republicans blame one another for the mayhem. Item: The Republican-leaning American Enterprise Institute fires David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, for suggesting that Republicans should have worked …
As we know, those who live in glass houses shouldn‟t throw stones. What, then, shall we make of a nation that pretends to live in a glass house on human rights, and then provides the stones for its enemies to throw? That‟s the question to ponder in light of today‟s news, brought to us by …
It is the land of Plato and Aristotle, home to the Acropolis and Parthenon, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics and the place from which the Olympics were re-born for the modern age over a century ago. It is Greece and, in its efforts to solve its budget crisis, it may offer a window into …
They live on the other side of the world, imprisoned in a nation whose leaders fear progress and prevent modernity. Isolated from all others, brainwashed to believe that their country is the best on Earth, they live in horrific conditions – with little electricity and running water; with malnourishment producing a generation of stunted growth, …
It was October, 1937, and President Roosevelt was trying to convince Americans to focus on the frightening events in Europe and Asia, to understand that the United States could not wall itself off from the world and to recognize that the march of totalitarianism abroad was a mounting threat at home. The nation, however, was …
Senator Evan Bayh’s surprise announcement that he won’t seek re-election has generated another bout of Washington’s current ailment – whining about a broken Senate, a paralyzed political system and huge unaddressed problems. “We’ve got a lot of good people in Congress, but they’re trapped in a dysfunctional system,” Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, said in explaining …
With Washington paralyzed by snow and its chattering class focused on President Obama’s changing fortunes, the next phase of a far more monumental story for both the United States and the world will play out this week in the Middle East. Iran’s regime and the opposition Green Movement are bracing for what could prove a …