So it wasn’t as bad as they said it might be.  The big bad hurricane that some had described as “the size of Europe,” ended up being a relatively weak storm as these things go, albeit it did enough damage with over 30 lives lost and who knows how many others injured psychically, if not […]

            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 […]