The line on Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress of the Heinz ketchup fortune and wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is that she’s a woman of principle, a hear-me-roar dame who tells it like it is. Well, that’s her…
In this week’s heated debate over the end of the Cold War, here is an item you may have missed. This Tuesday, Rabbi Velvel Tsikman, head of a flourishing Russian Jewish community in West Hollywood, surveyed the crowd of Russian…
Leave it to the incessant drumbeat of pro-Kerry propaganda, otherwise known as the “news cycle,” to make the impossible seem possible. Witness, for example, the amazing transformation of the Massachusetts senator who spent two decades slashing defense spending and slandering…
NEW YORK — File this under: Why do we need the U.N., again? In case you missed this story, the world’s most discredited institution continued its steady slide into irrelevance last week when it confirmed a serial human rights abuser…
Humility being all the rage on the Right these days, allow me to make my own contribution to the gallery of grovelers enlightened by recent turns in the War on Terror. Last month I contended in this space that even…
Call it Democracy Deficiency Syndrome. Frustrated by the continuing struggle to build a stable democracy in Iraq, some backers of Saddam Hussein’s removal have taken to opining that one of the most compelling arguments for military intervention in Iraq —…
This weekend Spain learned what truckling to terrorists will get you: a big bomb on a busy rail line. That’s precisely what a Spanish railway worker discovered in a bag under the track at Mocejon, a station close to the…
For a guy who famously does not read the papers, George W. Bush sure knows how the fourth estate gets its kicks. So when the president appeared last week at the 60th annual dinner of the Radio and Television News…
Give this to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. What Spain’s prime minister-elect lacks in diplomatic tact and a general willingness to offend terrorist sensibilities, he more than makes up for with his impeccable sense of timing. Last Thursday, for example, just…
If ever there was a time for European leaders to trade talk for action, last week was it. So it tells you something about the solemnity with which the war on terrorism is perceived in some quarters that Germany’s first…