August is the anniversary month of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an event which led quickly to the capitulation of the Empire of Japan, ending World War II. I haven't written about the decision to bomb and its consequences even though...

reposted from Dec. 7, 2005 Last May my wife and I traveled to Oahu. On Memorial Day Sunday we visited the USS Arizona Memorial. The ship was sunk on Dec. 7, 1941, along with many others. This is the original ship's bell of USS Arizona, recovered from...

My buddy Gershon left for the States for a couple of months. "My baby girl's left home and works in some late night eatery in Jerusalem. It's a big city and the people can get wild up there. Would you look in on her from time to time. She tells me she...

Ramesh Ponnuru writes of an "insane" analogy used by Robert Frank in the NY Times. It's this: "Anti-tax zealots denounce all taxation as theft, as depriving citizens of their right to spend their hard-earned incomes as they see fit. Yet nowhere does...

Me, midway through President Obama's speech at West Point: 7.25 p.m. CST: He’s wandering all over the place rhetorically. This is a snoozer. Now it’s turned into a speech about the economy. I predict health care is next. ... Someone send him DVDs...

"Why has Paris Hilton disappeared?" CNN. Paris who? Questions you can't believe are serious: "... in the whole Tiger Woods scandal: why did a man whose massive earnings depended on him being the ultimate clean-living sportsman jeopardise everything,...