August 20, 2020

Trader Joe's stands up to the left

In July, 17-year-old high school senior Briones Bedell posted an online petition calling popular grocery chain Trader Joe's racist for the whimsical labeling of its "international" food brands in witty ethnic terms such as Tra...

September 23, 2017

Disillusioned Democrat Eric Greitens switched parties, became a governor

Reading the Wall Street Journal's Matthew Hennessey's September 16-17 "Weekend Interview" with Missouri Republican governor Eric Greitens, I couldn't help but notice Mr. Hennessey's recurring use of action words like "h...

June 1, 2017

Trump's defining moment

The defining moment of President Trump's heralded visit to the American-Arab-Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia may not have been the spectacular reception accorded him by King Salman, the Saudi monarch, or his Riyadh speech before about 50 Muslim st...

August 30, 2007

The War Lesson Still Unlearned

Much of the history of the 20th century is the history of the inexplicable propensity of civilized people to deny the existence of evil which time and again threatens to destroy them. Unfortunately, inhabitants of the 21st century are on the bri...

August 10, 2007

Peleliu and Iraq

Peleliu. Until recently, the word was altogether foreign to me. Of late, I encounter it at every turn.I was introduced to the word a while back when the Wall Street Journal named With the Old Breed, E. B. Sledge's chronicle of the battles of Peleliu ...

July 28, 2007

Checking Out Infidel

Checking out Infidel from the local library was no easy task. Infidel is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's best-selling autobiography-cum-political manifesto about growing up female in the Muslim faith. Last February, six people were ahead of me ...