April 25, 2015

April Return to Appomattox

The chilly weather on the road to surrender was in sharp contrast to that balmy Palm Sunday of April 1865:  “As the blazing yellow sun climbed high overhead, the winding country lanes in the rural stillness of Appomattox couldn’t hav...

March 27, 2014

China, North Korea, and Hypocrisy on Human Rights

As Beijing moves full steam ahead with its diplomatic offensive against Japan over World War II history, it nonetheless cynically chooses to provide diplomatic cover for North Korea’s human rights atrocities via a threatened UN veto. South Kore...