Month: July 2008

Regardless of how you feel about the Wall Street Journal’s political coverage or editorial board (and that’s a column for another day), when Wall Street’s financial paper of record talks about oil prices these...

I hadn’t thought about the problem McCain will have trying to create a GOP platform. Good luck with that one. The current GOP platform is a 100-page document, and all but nine pages mention Bush’s name. Virtually the...

Fireworks on the 4th of July always make me cry. I’m not affraid to say it. There’s something about it, all the senses are activated as an idea–what once was the dream of a few revolutionaires–plays...

On Independence Day in Lake Geneva, the chalked words of the founding fathers are called graffiti. On Independence Day in Lake Geneva, city employees are called in to wash away the words of Dr. Martin Luther King. On...

So said Tony Karon, the proprietor of Rootless Cosmopolitan, on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence. Zionism is dead. Karon is a senior editor at Time.com where he analyzes the Middle East and other international...