Can a book be important, horrific and horrible?  You wouldn’t think so, but Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s “Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity” fits that description.             The title tells all, starting with the obvious passion that the author brings to the subject.  At a full 600 pages, plus 30 […]

           If you saw the recent Republican presidential debate (earlier this summer), you witnessed a remarkable sight.  At one point the moderator asked all eight candidates on the stage if any of them would vote for a budget proposal that had ten times as much spending cuts as tax increases.  Not one of the eight […]

          Last month’s horrific terrorist attacks in Norway were perpetrated by a militant Christian extremist who abhors the threat, as he sees it, that multiculturalism and liberalism constitute for his country and its religious majority.  At least that appears to have been the motivation for Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous assault on a summer camp where children […]

            Ever since Richard Nixon found a way for conservatives to win the presidency, Democrats have struggled to win the nation’s highest office.  (Nixon’s trick, for those who aren’t up on their history, was to unmask the national Democratic Party to the South, thereby forever giving the Republicans a solid electoral base – the southern […]