Paralipomena (1)

When Barack Obama lands in Europe for his first big international tour this month, the Democratic presidential candidate may be shocked to find himself standing in the middle of a vast, blood-soaked plain littered with the bodies of his political allies.
He will see left-wing parties that have reached their lowest popularity levels in a [...]

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Like a Gettysburg battlefield tour guide, Ali Kafarna pointed out the scars of war as he walked through the fields between his home and the Israeli border.
“Here’s where the tanks used to stop,” said Ali, 14, as he passed a dirt berm dug into dry grass littered with shrapnel and animal bones. “Here’s where [...]

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Lee Bywater recently bought back a chunk of his youth – a motorcycle. A big, loud one.
With a push from his wife – You want it, just do it! – the Elk Grove postal service supervisor plunked down more than $25,000 three months ago for a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Classic and accessories.
Bywater, 47, thus joins [...]

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By Jack Kelly
No president since Dwight Eisenhower has had more military experience than Sen. John McCain, who served 22 years in the Navy, nearly six of them as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. So many people were puzzled by the line of attack chosen by retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a supporter of Barack Obama:
“I [...]

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A military mastermind who retreated from Iraq, a politician motivated by peace, and a lover of Greek culture and Greek men - there’s more to Hadrian than wall-building, reveals the director of the British Museum
We think we know the Romans. Countless books, films, plays and pieces of music have been inspired by an empire that, [...]

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By DOUGLAS J. FEITH
A lot of poor commentary has framed the Iraq war as a conflict of “choice” rather than of “necessity.” In fact, President George W. Bush chose to remove Saddam Hussein from power because he concluded that doing so was necessary.
President Bush inherited a worrisome Iraq problem from Bill Clinton and from his [...]

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When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 232 years later, the United States would be so spectacularly dependent on foreign countries. It would be roughly eight more decades before oil gushed from a well in Titusville, Pa., marking the beginning of the global oil economy; it took eight decades [...]

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This week’s dismissal of the case against Dick Grasso is sweet vindication for the former New York Stock Exchange CEO. But beyond the debate over his $190 million pay package, there are lessons here about prosecutorial discretion, pack journalism and business courage under political pressure.
These columns defended Mr. Grasso from the beginning, not because we [...]

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John McCain is a given.  He’s an American hero, a tough, ornery nationalist, a centrist maverick, strongly in support of victory in Iraq, hell on porkbarrel spending, not much on the social conservatism of the evangelicals but against abortion rights and gay marriage.  He’s not, as he likes to joke, as “old as dirt and as scarred as [...]

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Yesterday was a good day for justice in Rhode Island, where the state Supreme Court stopped cold an attempt to turn lead paint into the next tobacco or asbestos.
The 4-0 ruling overturned a 2006 jury verdict that was the first court decision swallowing the theory that lead paint is a “public nuisance.” Under that legal [...]

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