Bite The Bullet
To me, one of the most horrible features of the disaster in Haiti was the frequent complaint of doctors and nurses that they did not …
Permafrost
Since President Obama appears to be committed to spending as much as it takes – on “jobs” bills, investments in “green industries,” and pork of …
Twice the Fool
I’m not a fan of Richard Cohen of the Washington Post, but in January he got something very right. He was addressing one of the …
Land of Wonders
A friend and I are going out to dinner. I pick him up at his apartment house. On entering, I can’t help noticing a large …
Word Watch – March 2010
“What this country needs,” wrote Isabel Paterson in 1932, “is a lot less of all sorts of things.” She was thinking about laws – laws …
Upright and Locked Position
To me, one of the most disgusting things about the American media is their cheerful refusal to wonder about the human costs of government policies, …
Word Watch: January 2010
As you’ve noticed, this column has some of the attributes of a column of troops: it’s loud and destructive, its course is generally unpredictable, and …
Joke’s on us
The morning it was announced that President Obama had won the Nobel Prize for Peace, I thought it was a joke. When I saw it …
Searching for Pyrrhus
On the morning after the election of November 2009, the one that put Republicans in charge of Virginia (by a landslide of 18 points) and …
There Goes the Neighborhood
You know those small, almost subliminal details, the things that you may not consciously notice when you walk through your neighborhood, but that you may …