Growing Up on Missile Defense
The Obama administration has been mugged by reality (again) -- last week it announced that it would reverse its 2011 decision to close Missile Field 1 in Alaska, and would instead complete the project...
View ArticleSabah Sitrep: Sulu Sultanate Sustains Sanguinary South Seas Scuffle
It sounds like something out of the Flashman series: A ragtag army loyal to the 75-year-old Sultan of Sulu invaded the northern part of Borneo in early February. Their goal was to retake the state of...
View ArticleWe Still Need Peace Through Strength
On Tuesday, the New York Times had a piece by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, a professor of American foreign relations at San Diego State University, that misunderstands America’s foreign military presence,...
View ArticleRand Paul Keeps to the Gospel
Kevin, I think the most impressive thing about Rand Paul's filibuster is that he has spent over seven hours speaking solely to the issue. There's been a good amount of repetition, but he hasn't been...
View ArticleBeating the War Drums in Korea
Most of the time, political rhetoric doesn't matter much. Either it's for a domestic audience, or it's a way of letting off steam in international relations. I wouldn't want to bet that the rhetoric...
View ArticleThe Uniquely American Way to Dictatorship
Detroit's ongoing collapse and the seeming inevitability of its being placed under the control of an emergency manager is revealing the wages of governing incompetence in America. Detroit, stuck in a...
View ArticleDetroit Decides to Give Up Its Freedom
A year ago, I wrote about Michigan's emergency-manager laws and the danger that modern dictators could become commonplace (as they did in Rome). The article hinged on whether Detroit, with its 700,000...
View ArticleChina’s Wall Crumbles
Years of speculation are finally giving way to some hard evidence of the Chinese government’s role in cyber espionage. A new report by cyber-security firm Mandiant is making waves, including on the...
View ArticleIt's Good to Be the Duke (or Is It?)
Aside from all the soap-opera titillation on Downton Abbey, the metaplot is about the changing socioeconomic structure in England in the early 20th century (not unlike Mad Men's take on America's entry...
View ArticleChicago Gangs and Libyan Terrorism
Kevin's piece on the homepage about uncontrolled gang violence in Chicago is a devastating indictment of just about every shibboleth attached to liberal governance today. Growing up in Chicagoland in...
View Article'I'm Not the Emperor': Just the Sentiment for Presidents' Day
Mark and Peter, there undoubtedly came a time early on with Barack Obama, like with Bill Clinton, when many of us tuned out the incessant whinging and self-pitying. However, his latest lament ("This is...
View ArticleThe New York Times Borks Ted Cruz
It took the New York Times, headmaster of the MSM, less than two months to bork Senator Ted Cruz. Without a water-bottle incident to fasten on, Jonathan Weisman settles on the hoary attack line of...
View ArticleRubio Rules (to Placate the MSM)
Lest any of us missed the dog whistle the MSM let out in obsessing over Senator Marco Rubio’s abhorrent sipping of water in his SOTU response, the message could not have been clearer. Should the...
View ArticleDecoding the Sexes on Valentines' Day
James Taranto, interviewed by Mary Kissel on WSJ's OpinionJournal, delves deep into male and female mating preferences, showing how good-looking individuals are more likely to get what they want (no...
View ArticleA Life Preserver to the Rubio-drenched MSM
Mark, your exchange with Jonah has highlighted a crying journalistic need. You ended with: "Washington crossed the Delaware. Rubio drank it." We must help our friends in the MSM continue to drive home...
View ArticleLondon's Cosmopolitan Problem (and Ours)
My yearly cleaning out of The Economist is producing the usual horde of unread gems. One from last June (admittedly, I'm really behind here) is about the new plutocracy invading London. The article...
View ArticleNo More Denuclearization for North Korea
As expected, North Korea conducted another nuclear test yesterday, its third since 2006. This one, if initial reports are to be believed, was the largest yet, and Pyongyang's news service said it used...
View ArticleNorth Korea Destroys the 'Nest of Wickedness' (Virtually)
Sometimes, the North Koreans make it too easy. An official Made in Pyongyang video has been rocketing around the Internet since yesterday that fantasizes about destroying U.S. cities with missile...
View ArticleThe Economist Rewrites International Law and Gets the Senkakus Wrong
I have to give The Economist credit for focusing as much attention as it has on the Sino-Japanese spat over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The two sides, as I just wrote for NRO, are sliding dangerously...
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