THE Norwegian committee that chose to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama may already be regretting its decision. Whatever…
MONDAY’s edition of the British newspaper The Guardian contained an obituary for Marek Edelman, whose claim to fame was his leading role…
GEORGE W. Bush did not think long and hard before unleashing his nation’s formidable military might on Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks…
GOING by the rate at which former operatives from a plethora of military and other agencies have been emerging from the woodwork…
“THE objectives favored by liberals have their merits,” Barack Obama notes in The Audacity of Hope. “But they hardly constitute a national…
ONE could be excused for suspecting that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is the new Al Qaeda, given the virulence with which…
THE probable decapitation of a leading faction of the Pakistani Taliban could be considered an auspicious augury in the run-up to the…
“IN the interests, then, of peace; in the interests of commerce; in the interests of moral and material improvement, it may be…
THE pattern is by now well-established: perceived foes of the ruthless young thug elevated by Vladimir Putin to the presidency of Chechnya…
EVEN a tentative sigh of relief would probably be premature, but the trickle of refugees back to their towns and villages in…
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