December 7, 2024

Kite Fighting in the Democrat Party

Each spring, Japan celebrates Hamamatsu Kite Flying Festival, part of the Golden Week celebration that includes Children’s Day. Hundreds of kites in a dazzling array of patterns and colors fill the sky over the seaside. It’s a multiday di...

May 31, 2024

Biden’s Gaza Policy Leaves Israel Vulnerable to Hezb’allah

The Biden administration has been arguing with itself over its support of Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.  Secretary Antony Blinken, in particular, seems to take both sides, claiming variously that Hamas must be destroyed, that Ham...

December 10, 2023

The End of Allyship

For many years, in the late 1960s and 1970s, my father was the president of the teachers’ union in Oakland.  Throughout his career, he was an advocate and activist for civil rights. In 1969, for example, he joined four civil rights...