Pen and Sword

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the in...

The late William F. Buckley, political conservative icon and founder of National Review , must be clawing at his coffin lid. The print ver...

We’re a decade into the new American century , the neoconservatives are still leading the country on a march to the cliff, and most of the c...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities . -- Voltaire The propaganda war on the American public appea...

President Barack Obama’s March 27 announcement of a “new strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan” makes it official. He has no clue what he’...

If you’re not cheating you’re not trying. --Anonymous U.S. military officer As a naval aviator pal of mine once remarked, cadets i...

Young Mr. Bush and his handlers managed to squander more than two centuries of American progress. Two interminable armed conflicts and the...