Carter’s weakness as president finds a mirror in today’s White House: Obama refuses to take the proverbial bull by the horns and do something.

From education to energy policy, it seems Obama is intent on dismantling and denigrating every positive effort made by the Bush administration.

James Delingpole hits a home run (or would that be a “run” or “wicket” using cricket terms?) in “Wikileaks: Old Gray Lady invokes the harlot’s prerogative.” He exposes the arrant hypocrisy of the New York Times, though why anyone who was alive in the early 70s would be surprised in inconceivable; the Times, after all, [...]

Originally published on December 1, 2010 Tracy Clark-Flory’s Salon piece, “Do women undermine the brotherhood of war?”, questions the British policy of precluding women serving in front-line roles. She cites a recent Ministry of Defense review that concludes: [W]omen should be excluded from such roles because their presence might undermine “group cohesion,” leading to “far-reaching [...]

Tracy Clark-Flory’s Salon piece, “Do women undermine the brotherhood of war?”, questions the British policy of precluding women serving in front-line roles. She cites a recent Ministry of Defense review that concludes: [W]omen should be excluded from such roles because their presence might undermine “group cohesion,” leading to “far-reaching and grave consequences.” The “brotherhood” referred [...]

Originally published on November 24, 2010 In the world most people inhabit, someone of Senator Barbara Boxer’s status would laugh themselves silly at the idea that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is remotely comparable to Saudi Arabia’s beheading of gays, or Iran’s hanging of gays, or Pakistan’s stoning of gays, or North Korea’s rejection of the [...]

In the world most people inhabit, someone of Senator Barbara Boxer’s status would laugh themselves silly at the idea that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is remotely comparable to Saudi Arabia’s beheading of gays, or Iran’s hanging of gays, or Pakistan’s stoning of gays, or North Korea’s rejection of the “popular gay culture in the West, [...]