Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld needs to take responsibility for the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by soldiers under his command by apologizing and resigning. Just over a decade ago, at the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' agents to enter the compound […]
Today is the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister's feat as the first to run a mile in less than four minutes. For the record: My best mile time was 7 minutes 48 seconds -- good enough for a D- in high school.
It's been 10 years since the genocide in Rwanda killed hundreds of thousands of people. The U.N. was there, supposedly to keep the peace, but read about what they let happen. In the first days of the 100-day genocide that left an estimated 800,000 people dead, an armored convoy of Belgian troops pulled up to […]
There are two more must-read articles on the U.N. Oil-for-Palaces program. First, John O'Sullivan in National Review Online: We should not be altogether surprised at the corruption revealed here. Multi-national organizations like the U.N. and the European Union are regularly plagued by financial scandals because they bring together three incentives for dishonesty: large sums of […]
I've waited to comment on the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners for some of the overheated rhetoric to die down. Some of what happened was wrong -- certainly everything detailed in the now-ubiquitous photographs falls under that category -- but it is not torture. The people who did these things will be punished. At last count, […]
He's avoided using the term recently, but Sen. John Kerry took to calling U.S. allies in Iraq part of a "fraudulent coalition." He never defined what a "genuine coalition" would look like, though one might assume it would be required to include France, Germany and Belgium. Despite Kerry and his Democrat allies' disdain for them, […]
One of my colleagues at the Union-Tribune told me he was recently asked by someone if I had a blog. He responded that I did. He was then asked: "Is he (that would be me) conservative?" My colleague's response: "He makes Hannity look like Hillary." Not quite accurate, but I did bust out laughing.
I just finished watching 10 minutes of Ted Rall on "The O'Reilly Factor." There's currently no transcript of the exchange up on Fox News' Web site, and I'm certainly not going to listen to Rall's idiocy again. Among the highlights: Egyptian Islamic Jihad committed the 9/11 attacks -- not Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. We […]
I've made no secret over the past 2+ years that I've been writing here of my disdain for the United Nations. This assembly of the world's nations gives as much credibility to liberal democracies like the United States, Britain, Japan as it does to tyrannies like Iran, North Korea and Sudan. Yesterday, the U.N. seated […]