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Etiquette Versus Annihilation

Recent statements from United Nations officials, that Iran is already blocking their existing efforts to keep track of what is going on in their...

Who Trashes Liberal Arts?

An op-ed piece titled "Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts" appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal. But it is not...

Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)

It is not often that the leader of a small city-state -- in this case, Singapore -- gets an international reputation. But no one deserved it more...

A Simple Question

It is amazing how a simple question can cause a complex lie to collapse like a house of cards. The simple question was asked by Bill O'Reilly of...

Ruinous 'Compassion'

It is fascinating to see brilliant people belatedly discover the obvious -- and to see an even larger number of brilliant people never discover...

Two Warnings

When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on March 3rd, it was the third time he had done so. The only...

The 'Disparate Impact' Racket

The U.S. Department of Justice issued two reports last week, both growing out of the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown. The first...

Random Thoughts

Random thoughts on the passing scene:When President Obama keeps talking about "violent extremists" in the abstract, you might wonder whether...

The Honesty Gap

There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women and men,...

Giuliani Versus Obama

The firestorm of denunciation of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for having said that he did not think Barack Obama loved America, is in...