One of the most useful devices of general semantics is the use of numbers and dates to remind ourselves of individuality and change. Cow-1 is not the same as cow-2, and Israel-1967 is not the same as Israel-2006. In 1967, Israel launched a blitzkrieg attack against...

In a perfect world, military power would match the brainpower of the people who wield it. Alas, it's not a perfect world, and the mismatch between power and smarts is sometimes wider than the Grand Canyon. Remember when Paul Wolfowitz was in the Defense Department?...

You can observe three important things simultaneously in the Middle East: One, Israel's total disregard for the lives and property of the Arab people; two, the effectiveness of the Israeli propaganda machine; and three, the utterly craven support for Israel by the...

Back in the 1970s, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the giants of the 20th century, gave a commencement address at Harvard. It was, I believe, the last public address he gave in America. His criticism was so dead-on that he quickly became persona non grata. I've always...

The media flap over North Korea's test launches of missiles is another red herring tossed out by the Bush administration to distract the public from its disastrous policies, both foreign and economic. As I keep pointing out, the intercontinental missiles armed with...

Ann Coulter, to use one of her favorite words, is an over-40 smart "broad" who makes a ton of money out of being controversial. She laughs all the way from her Palm Beach, Fla., mansion to the bank when Democrats and liberals get outraged by something she says or...

Terrorism is a tactic, not an entity, and it is a tactic used by people who have a political grievance. Therefore, if you want to eliminate terrorism, you have to address the political problems that gave it birth. President Bush has made no effort to do this. He has...

I'm getting tired of hearing politicians and generals talk about Americans dying for peace and freedom. The main breaker of the peace in recent years has been the United States. Since 1945, no nation on Earth has either declared war against us or attacked us. We...

President Bush teared up on Memorial Day and said we must complete the mission in Iraq to honor the 18,000 wounded and 2,400-plus dead. Well, I have a question. What is the mission? Is it to overthrow Saddam Hussein? He's been overthrown and is awaiting execution by a...

If we allow the Bush administration to drag this country into a war with Iran, we should all burn our voter-registration cards and go ahead and admit that we are no longer worthy of being citizens of a self-governing republic. For heaven's sake, the administration is...