Wednesday About twenty years ago, there was a rash of witch sightings in the elementary schools of America. Teachers, in…
Sunday The weather here in LA is perfect. Low humidity. No wind. No clouds. Seventy-two degrees. I lay in bed…
In early 1971, General Creighton Abrams, the head of MACV (U.S. military command in South Vietnam), ordered the interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the network of roads and warehouses that ran through Laos and Cambodia practically to within an artillery shot of Saigon. The trail was used by the North Vietnamese to supply their armies and the Viet Cong (southern Communist led guerrillas). The latter were much reduced in numbers and effectiveness after frustrating years of efforts by the U.S. and South Vietnamese leaderships to devise a winning strategy.
Friday This has been an eventful week. As I might have mentioned, I’ve had terrible pain in my right knee…
Democrats have a pernicious pattern for handling effective Republican presidents. First, they claim that the president is unfit for office…
Philip Roth dead! Hard to believe. He ever seemed like the spirit of youth itself even as he grew old…
The rap on Billy Graham — and it wasn’t much of one, given the essential sweetness, you might say holiness,…
I can’t help it. I keep reading story after story, hearing harangue after harangue on the television that the Trump/Russia…
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So said George Orwell. I’m thinking about…
