One hundred sixty years ago, a series of battles and engagements in Virginia between the Rapidan and James Rivers determined the outcome of America’s Civil War. It is known as the Overland Campaign, and it was fought between the Union…
Anglo-American tradition long ago set the principle that law should be enforced locally — the idea that the county sheriff and able-bodied local private citizens were the prime institutions for maintaining public order. In England, service on what was called…
I didn’t realize it was paradise until two weeks ago. That was when my neighbors on a super high-end street in the flats of Beverly Hills (houses starting at eight figures) began to put up a wall between their house…
Nate Fischer touched a nerve yesterday by pointing out the self-evident fact that the regime governing America today has “almost no relationship to the form of government established by the [C]onstitution.” “If you will not accept the reality that this…
You can see Hanger One from Highway 101 as you come to the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. It dwarfs NASA’s Moffett Field, and the closer you get, the more massive it appears. The giant domed structure, now being…
This is not a review of Guy Ritchie’s new movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It’s been reviewed widely already, almost always favorably, with reviewers generally characterizing it as a thoroughly entertaining romp based on an obscure but fascinating actual…
“A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.” These familiar words of Jesus have been applied to many political situations down through the centuries. Perhaps no such application was more apt than the admonition offered to the Democratic…
Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War By Eric Setzekorn (Naval Institute Press, 348 pages, $30) The more you reflect on history, the better Dwight Eisenhower as a president looks. Liberal historians and political scientists, enthralled with…
Politics is tough on principled people, just as it was on former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who passed away Wednesday at 82 years old. The rough and tumble of Athenian democracy bred the idea that whatever you can persuade people…
