Zero Base Thinking

Axis of Evil: Is It Real? Last night I saw Michael Ledeen claim yet again that the Axis of Evil is more a real than a rhetorical device. (Th...

Conservatives and Race In the aftermath of the Trent Lott resignation it is interesting to note the difference between the Conservative and ...

Turkish Attack on Iraq Imminent? According to Debka.com, an attack by 70,000 Turkish troops on Mosul and Kirkuk is imminent. From their webs...

Turkish Attack on Iraq Imminent? According to Debka.com, an attack by 70,000 Turkish troops on Mosul and Kirkuk is imminent. From their webs...

The Case for the Empire It may be Christmas, but the thirst for geo-political tinkering runs deep in certain circles (mine). When "Atta...

Trent Lott This whole Trent Lott thing has been amusing to me. This guy makes an innocent (to him) comment at his friend's birthday part...

CSPAN Viewers Can Teach Us Too One of the best current affairs shows available on video is CSPAN's Washington Journal. On this program, ...

Vacation Over Just returned from a week in beautiful midtown Manhattan. The land of my birth, old friends, and a realization that there is m...

Prohibition Repealed! Today, Thursday, December 5, is the 69th anniversary of the repeal of Alcohol Prohibition. National Prohibition ende...

Is Bob Barr Reborn? About twenty five years ago, when I was in the insurance business, my partner Nick thought that we should rep the produc...

Hit or Miss? Over at Dean's World I have been getting raked over the coals this holiday weekend, and I thought that you, my loyal reade...

WhoseTen Commandments? Politics makes strange bedfellows. Tonight I'm ready to sleep with Pat Buchanan and a bunch of Southern Baptists...

Kabul Recovers. Slowly The people of Kabul, a place I know well, are some of the most self-sufficient in the world, living in a laissez fa...

Freedom vs. Order There is a great debate today between republican conservatives and the libertarians and young conservatives who gave them ...

How I Dealt With D.A.R.E. My son is now in the sixth grade, and had some problem with DARE, when the program was offerred in the fifth grade...

Was J.F.K a Dope Fiend? Slowly, historians extract bits of information about major figures, and the past acquires more and more context and ...

What Next for Afghanistan? Regular readers of this space know that Afghanistan and its people inhabit a special place in my heart. The Afgha...

Nancy Pelosi, Conservative Catholic That's what she said. In liberal San Francisco, says the new democrat leader of the House of Represe...

Bloggers Since I decided to profile, in this space, some of the lesser known blogs I have been astounded by the sheer quantity of great work...

Can We Believe DebkaFile? I have been reading DebkaFile for years, and have found that their reports have mostly been correct, but a little...