March 2, 2014

The Ukrainian Dilemma

The pregnant question is: “What do we do right now?” Right now the ball is in Putin’s court. What he “reasonably” wants is to keep his naval bases in Crimea. Those bases are Russia’s only warm water ports and ...

August 4, 2013

Peeling the Onion of Terrorism

We have a primary enemy: radicalized Islamic terrorists. We can try to understand them, but only after we identify them. Who are radicalized Islamists? It isn't as easy as some might think to know this enemy; ad hoc groups of radicalized Muslims seem...

March 2, 2013

What a Fine Mess We're In

The title quote from Laurel & Hardy here refers to public policies. Most of us are interested in our public policies; they affect how we relate to each other, how various government agencies relate to us, and we talk, often complain, about t...

December 8, 2012

The Real Second Amendment

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed As simple as these word are, we have been arguing about what they mean for a long time. Part of the proble...