Michael Fumento
It’s a busy time at Arlington Cemetery, not because of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan but primarily those of WWII vets. Thus while first funerals are normally at 9 am, Maj. Megan McClung’s was at 8:30. This was actually quite…
The capital of al Anbar Province, Ramadi remains for U.S. troops the most violent city in Iraq. Yet as I reported in my November 27th “Return to Ramadi” Weekly Standard article, we seem finally to be gaining ground there against…
The number of embeds in Iraq is so small it’s grotesque. During the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, more than 600 reporters, TV crews and photographers were embedded with Coalition Forces, according to the Associated Press. Last year, during the…
Starting in early 2002, firefighters who responded to the World Trade Center on that awful day the previous September began reporting what became labeled “World Trade Center Cough.” Since then, numerous other first responders, later responders involved in search and…
The fierce public debate over killing human embryos to create lines of embryonic stem cells is over; tout finit; THE END. It was buried with a stake thrust through its heart by a study published in the world’s most prestigious…
Calls for prevention highlighted the opening day of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto last week. Alas, it’s too late. On the same day the Washington Post, carried a photo on its front page depicting a man wearing a…
Author William Styron called it “Darkness Visible.” Another writer labeled it “The Noonday Demon.” Successful and beloved people such as William Holden and Ernest Hemingway were never able to shake off the beast called clinical depression. Depression saps the life…
This just in! New study shows little kids watch lots of TV! Yeah, I know you’re “Shocked, shocked!” What may surprise you, though, is the extent to which these children are being exposed to television and why. Kids aren’t just…
Since returning from my embed in the wild west Iraqi city of Ramadi at the end of April, I’ve gotten some wonderful e-mails from relatives of the troops, some of which I’d like to share. First some background. Despite the…
Remember when microwave ovens caused cancer? Maybe that’s before your time; but what about when power lines and electric blankets caused cancer and computer terminals caused miscarriages and birth defects? Then, of course, cell phones caused brain tumors. And now,…
