Month: March 2009

There’s always one kid that you can convince to do anything. C’mon, Harry, just break out and go get us some smokes. Jail guards in the US state of Georgia searching for an escaped inmate did not have to look very...

Jeff Huber wrote yet another fine article recently, this one titled Enduring Blunder. (Sounds like one of those macho U.S. military names for their failed campaigns, doesn’t it? Operation Desert Storm. Operation Iraqi...

I long for the day when I won’t feel compelled to check out Professor Juan Cole’s blog, Informed Comment, seven days a week. However, I suspect that day may not come in my lifetime, much less the lifetimes of my...

Did you spring ahead?

Maybe Axis-of-Evil speechwriter David Frum just wants attention or maybe he doesn’t know how to avoid a flamewar he is bound to lose, but his Newsweek lament about the power of Rush Limbaugh is fairly stupid. Why? Because...