It's a cold morning in January 2011. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wake up early to put on their Revolutionary War costumes. They're joined by a miscellaneous group of anti-government protesters, libertarian activists, and all-around hotheads. With...
SEOUL - If the Obama administration needed a rogue nation to demonstrate its foreign policy resolve, central casting couldn't have supplied a better candidate than North Korea. The government in Pyongyang routinely promises to unleash destruction of biblical...
"As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed; And the Piper advanced and the children followed, And when all were in to the very last, The door in the mountain-side shut fast." - Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan generating...
"What are words for, when no one listens anymore?" - Missing Persons Michael Ignatieff is, by almost any measure, much smarter than the average bear. I am likely to be one of those bears, as are you. Dr. Ignatieff, in fact, is a well-regarded professor of...
If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable. - William Graham Sumner (1903) Americans have come to notice, through all the smoke from burning American flags,...
