This past March, Robert Cassidy – the chief negotiator in bilateral talks with Long Yu Tu, China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, over China’s entry into the World Trade Organization – made a promotional tour of Chinese universities and business...
When I read the Washington Post story on John McCain's mad scheme to bolt the GOP and form a "centrist" third party, my first thought was: I've got Nostradamus beat. This, of course, is the typically self-referential mindset of any writer – just so you'll know...
When I read the Washington Post story on John McCain's mad scheme to bolt the GOP and form a "centrist" third party, my first thought was: I've got Nostradamus beat. This, of course, is the typically self-referential mindset of any writer – just so you'll know...
A note from Justin Raimondo: Since I'm suffering from heat prostration today (it's currently 101 degrees here in San Francisco!) and since I didn't take Memorial Day off, I'm taking a break today. But here's a past column that I know you'll find interesting. It was my...
The best news relating to the Balkans is that there seems to be something of a split within the Bush administration over "peacekeeping" missions like the NATO deployment in Bosnia and other Balkan countries. The worst news is that at this point the most...
The bombs may have stopped falling on Belgrade, but America's war against the former Yugoslavia continues unabated. If anyone was ever in any doubt that the Clintonian policy would be extended under President George W. Bush – as I warned it would be – then...
I lived through it, but just barely. I'm talking about the "Pearl Harbor" movie, of course. Undaunted by the nearly unanimous jeers of the critics – bound, really, by a sense of duty, since I have written no less than three columns about the damn thing – I...
In a perfectly calculated spin, Prime Minister Sharon unilaterally declared "cease fire" last Tuesday (22.5). He did not announce it in the press conference that day, but made it known indirectly several hours later, giving even more bubble-gum for the...
Today's column is an introduction to today's "Spotlight," John T. Flynn's classic pamphlet The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, which you can check out here. The smoke barely had time to clear before a dark cloud of intrigue and suspicion formed around the...
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin has captured the essence of the maudlin "patriotism," the sheer ugliness of the mindless jingoism unleashed by the "Pearl Harbor" movie in her column on the subject, "Patriotism and Pearl Harbor," which starts out maudlin and...
