146 years ago today, the 54th Massachusetts led the assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. The all-black regiment and its white officers were decimated, the dead including Col. Robert Gould...

As the Royal Navy stops taking crap. Times of London on two boatloads of Royal Marines vs. a dhow full of Somali and Yemeni pirates:  Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty’s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship off...

That’s the Guy enroute to his annual torching in Lewes, Sussex, traditional hotbed of anti-Catholicism that’s big on the Nov. 5 observance due to a matter of 17 local Prots having been burned there by Queen Mary. Brits have burned the...

In the subtle, indirect language of diplomats and heads of state, Zardari remarks are the foreign policy equivalent of voulez-vous l’humma humma...

It ain’t bleeding (much), it ain’t leading … much. No shortage of irony as Baghdad blast walls tumble like Wall Street stock portfolios … only in orderly fashion, due to a sense of security, not panic.