Month: June 2009

. Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence, Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on the conflict for the Boston Post. His four dispatches...

What was a decent interval during the Vietnam War has become a decent outcome in the Iraq War. Naturally, bad things that are preventable could result when the American troops begin to draw back on June 30. There is a difference...

It’s hard for me to get hung up on every nutty thing that Glenn Beck says, at least in part because I’ve never watched his show or listened to him on the radio. If Atrios hadn’t spent years mocking his CNN...

Hello again painting fans. This week we’ll be continuing with our 2 new paintings. The photos that I will be using are seen directly below.  The first photo shows the Monument Rocks in Kansas.  Seen below that...

Little-noticed authority granted to the president several decades ago may be helping the architects of the crackdown in Iran.  The unintended consequences are enough to justify a second look at whether those powers should...