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(Nantucket, Mar. 15) The wild wintry desolation of this small island is not everyone’s ideal for a seasonal getaway but nonetheless it is (more…)

(Washington, Mar. 1) While it seems strange to be hailing the prophetic gifts of Joe Biden, his prediction last fall about very serious foreign (more…)

Apart from national defense, the two giants of the U.S. economy are health care and education. In terms of expenditure, number of (more…)

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste” said Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff. One look at the so-called (more…)

Today the existence of Israel is in greater peril than at any time since its founding hour when the fledging state was invaded by every (more…)

Transitions are a great entertainment form, the more so if we get a new party as well as a new President. DC real estate folks always vote (more…)

Adding considerable luster to the achievement of the Founding Fathers in building success and stability in the infant Republic (more…)

Not for nothing has economics long been known as the “dismal science”. Not only is it inherently boring, but hardly anyone truly (more…)

Ever since Lyndon Johnson’s dramatic announcement of a Vietnam “bombing pause” two weeks before the 1968 election, (more…)

(London, Oct. 6) The mistaken belief that clever diplomacy was a substitute for force of arms led to Athens’ defeat by Sparta, (more…)

Mirroring this extraordinary political year the conventions of both parties were unusual, unpredictable and given to striking twists (more…)

The elitists who dominate the Democratic Party have embraced the New Europe and its world view. The fawning reception of Barack Obama in Europe illustrated this. They see him as the anti-Bush, (more…)

As the shock waves from $4 per gallon gasoline impact every segment of U.S. society the decades-old taboo against even discussing (more…)

Editor: Our columnist Bill Moloney is more influential than we dreamed. In this piece, written a week ago for Bob Beauprez’s website, he took McCain to school on offshore drilling (more…)

It isn’t just this week’s blowout in Kentucky. It isn’t just West Virginia. We saw those same lopsided majorities for Clinton – three and four to one- in southwestern Pennsylvania, western counties in Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. Who are these people and what are they thinking? (more…)