If the Boston Marathon Massacre and the growing Syrian Civil War jihadist outrages were not self-evident, the bloody attack on innocents at the Nairobi, Kenya, mall provide new evidence that the international terrorist conspiracy continues virtually … [Read more...] about The War on Terrorism Goes On
Contributor: Sol W. Sanders
Obama Discovers American Exceptionalism
Among the welter of ironies concerning President Vladimir Putin's op/ed for The New York Times on the zigzaggingSyria crisis is that "Ras's" ghostwriter has--however haphazardly--touched on the fundamental issue. Given the arguments and syntax, I … [Read more...] about Obama Discovers American Exceptionalism
Hold Your Horses!
The old cliché has it that history is written by the victors. But the victors' historians, too, are human. In an effort to write a narrative that the rest of us can follow, they pick up what we diginiks call a "thread". Until someone identifies a … [Read more...] about Hold Your Horses!
Picking Up the Pieces
When a young, flibbertigibbet reporter asked the old Edwardian Harold Macmillan what might derail implementing the prime minister's promised political agenda, he rejoined, "Events, dear boy, events!" For the pseudo-aristocrat that he might have … [Read more...] about Picking Up the Pieces
The Death of The Washington Post
“In the good old days” a reader’s world was filled with newspapers, several coexisted competitively in a single urban area and even in the rural hinterlands. The choice for a subscriber for dawn home delivery by a boy on a bicycle or picked up at the … [Read more...] about The Death of The Washington Post
Hand·wring·ing , the order of the day
"Never underestimate the role of fad in American life", my old friend Milton Sachs, historian, Brandeis University professor, used to say. This season's fashion is denigrating the power, historic role and the U.S.' indispensable place in preserving … [Read more...] about Hand·wring·ing , the order of the day
Commonsense on Immigration
Almost three decades ago, I made a "discovery:" virtually all the problems I had been chasing for years, as a reporter in Asia, existed in Mexico. Because of the only land border between what was then called the first and the third worlds, one day it … [Read more...] about Commonsense on Immigration
Here We Go Again!
For those of us who lived through it, current negotiations for the American exit from Afghanistan smells much too much like the end of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam. Washington, after a decade of enormous sacrifice of life and treasure, has chosen … [Read more...] about Here We Go Again!