Cranbrook School And The Lord Of The Flies

Today’s Washington Post story on Romney’s school days and his penchant for practical jokes—sometimes of a disquieting nature—underscores a point we made yesterday here at the site: there’s a pressing need for Romney to make a strong personal impression on the American people. Because if he doesn’t, others will fill in the gap.Now, to anybody […]

Rogue Detroit Democrats Stand Trial

Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of Detroit, has already served time for obstruction of justice and parole violations, but he may be making another, longer, pit stop in the pokey, this time for even graver crimes. The Wall Street Journal reports that federal prosecutors following a multi-year investigation allege that the squalid Kilpatrick and […]

China Turns To Economic Power Against Philippines

Near the remote Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, Filipino and Chinese ships continue their standoff over a month after the crisis first began. Now China is turning to new weapons to make the Philippines back down.The WSJ reports: Several leading Chinese travel agents said Thursday they have suspended tourism to the Philippines as […]

A Victory In The Non-War War

Our joy at the news that the latest underwear bombing plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been foiled is somewhat diminished by the realization that this time they were trying a new and improved underwear bomb. Officials said the latest bomb was an updated model with a more effective detonation system and […]

The Trouble In Timbuktu

Life in Timbuktu is changing quickly. Five weeks ago, this ancient city in northern Mali fell to Taureg rebels who sought an independent homeland. They were helped by at least one al Qaeda-linked Islamist group. Today, the Islamists rule the city alone.“The ‘bearded men’ are the new masters of the Azawad region. The MNLA [Taureg […]

The Fate of Fayyad

Via Meadia has written previously about the tragedy of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. A man of principle who is also a pragmatic and flexible leader, he has done more than anybody else to build a working Palestinian state, but that achievement is under growing threat as Hamas, Fatah and the Israeli government all pursue […]

The War on the Young: Young Adult Joblessness at 13.6%

April is the cruelest month for the Obama administration’s hoped for economic recovery; yet again this year signs of economic recovery faded in the spring after a winter of growth. But for one group, there has been little hope and no change: the jobs picture for young adults just keeps looking bleak.Data from Tuesday’s Gallup […]

Maurice Sendak, R.I.P.

Incidences of writers taking ownership of words are few and far between. Moses or whoever wrote Genesis certainly owns begat; the authors of the Declaration own inalienable; and Maurice Sendak owns rumpus. I cannot hear the word without thinking of reading Where the Wild Things Are to my children. When we reached the moment when […]

Rebuilding Haiti

“The glass is 10 percent full,” says Nigel Fisher, the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator for reconstruction efforts in Haiti. “It’s now time to tackle the remaining 90 percent.”Yet more than two years after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and after billions of recovery dollars pledged by the United Nations, foreign governments, and private aid organizations, […]

The Deterioration of Our Political Life

Republicans in Indiana have spoken.  They have decided that Senator Richard Lugar does not deserve another term in Washington.  That’s too bad—not just for Senator Lugar, who after all has had a long and successful 36-year career in the Senate—but for the institution of the Senate and the country as a whole.  Let me explain […]

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