Shorter Verbatim Naomi Wolf: "A Pakistani lawyer who is a fourth-generation scion of a major Pakistani political family explained what I keep hearing from many parts of the plugged in educated elite of the Middle East: ISIS, he said, is grassroots Wahabism - the extreme and...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first aerial combat victory: On August 25, Roland Garros and Lt. de Bernis became the first flyers to damage an enemy aircraft. Flying.
On October 5, 1886, Henry George accepted the nomination of the United Labor Party for the mayor of New York City. Although a quixotic effort, both labor's attempt to create.
Someone call CPS. From an interview with Robert Duvall: Do you intend to keep working for as long as you can? Well, somewhat. I just finished directing a movie called “Wild Horses.” All we had was 2.2 million bucks and 23 days, but we had terrific...
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier dies. The world cries. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
Sometimes one needs to be reminded that Charlie is a national treasure: So, on Tuesday, we had a sprawling mess of a German opera that nonetheless turned into a classic.
My latest at the National Interest is a broad assessment of the role of PGMs in American grand strategy: How has the growth of the Precision-Guided Munitions (PGM) complex changed the balance of international power? More specifically, how has the U.S. military’s embrace of this system...
It's days like this that I wish he had the old JS-KIT comment thread of Yankee fans defending the pathetic whining of George Steinbrenner, because it was logically impossible for.
It is absolutely true that sometime supporters of the Israeli state conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. But it is also true that sometimes anti-Zionism is invoked as an excuse by anti-Semites..
For some Friday comedy gold, the man who gave us Iraq and Alito has a voicemail arguing in the course of one of his favorite non-sequiturs that the word "spoiler" is a "politically bigoted" term. To briefly re-state the obvious, 1)while all candidates are trying to...
It is 4 a.m. I am alone downstairs, when all of a sudden, in the kitchen, I hear someone saying, "Hello? Is anybody there? Hello?" "Hello," I reply, and walk.
When my son developed an interest in dinosaurs and pre-historic life, he awakened a latent interest in me. I often ask him what his favorite dino (T-Rex) is, so I.