This is a little late, but I was out on travel last week and didn’t have much time to sit and put thoughts together.  As I watched Obama trek through the Middle East and Europe last week, a remarkable thing happened.  The Iraqi Prime Minister gave the Bush Administration the greatest gift it could have [...]

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day.  Mexican Independence Day is September 16, and was established 50 years before the event that Cinco de Mayo commemorates.  Cinco de Mayo honors the Battle of Puebla in which Mexicans held off a better equipped and larger French force to prevent an attack on Mexico City.
However, as [...]

I love reading blogs.  I also have a particular fondness for columnists.  The reason goes beyond a general sense of curiosity about other people, what they think, and why they behave the way they do - which is often tied to how they perceive the world and illustrated in their writing.  The reason I love [...]

A friend of mine is currently serving in Baghdad and over the last couple of weeks has been sending out some really interesting notes about life in war-torn Iraq.  Given that she is also a woman, and has to deal with the unique weirdness that can create in a Muslim nation (and, frankly, in a [...]

Ronald Reagan once described his foreign policy with regard to the Cold War in fairly simple terms - we win, they lose.  It’s a simple message that is easy to understand and makes clear our commitment to the outcome. 
To be perfectly clear, the Administration has truly bungled a great number of things.  The war in [...]