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Back on the pavement thinkin about the idiocy of the false but prevalent view of the doctrine of proportionality under international law.  And most specifically relative to Israel’s response to October 7 and America’s response to the January 28 drone attack by the...

No American roughly my age, just north of 75, has not had a close relationship with the atomic bomb their entire life.  Two had been dropped in the war concluded shortly before we were born.  Their aftermath and surviving but mutilated victims constantly appeared in...

Christmas Eve, I started counting all the Israel/Hamas war coverage in the New York Times digital edition, including articles about collateral damage, such as the Claudine Gay fiasco at Harvard.  I stopped at 25 and circled back to two that raised questions similar to...

Forced today to place a wager on a Biden v. Trump contest in 2024, I would bet on Joe and by a decent margin, notwithstanding recent polls saying he trails in five of the six key swing states.  But now those who’ve seen Oppenheimer or read American Prometheus must...

Though the world’s attention has shifted to the Middle East from Republican Party dysfunction and its putative 2024 presidential nominee, that secondary concern still must be dealt with.  By considering what it would mean for U.S. foreign policy and military alliances...

The atrocity de la semaine in the scolding and scalding progressive media was committed by Jann Wenner, co-founder and former owner of Rolling Stone Magazine and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2004. Within a nanosecond of...