With No Apologies, Let’s Move Out

Indeed, where’s the outrage? With David Kay’s resignation, press interviews and Senate testimony, and the report issued earlier this month from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, disapproving of the decision to invade Iraq, we ve seen a renewed Democrat outrage and a seeming injection of credibility into their candidates issue-starved campaigns. (By the way [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:33-08:00 February 8th, 2004|Islam and the West, San Francisco Chronicle|20 Comments

The Odoacer Corollary

For those of us in California who fear we may be losing the culture that was handed down to us from the Enlightenment of Hobbes, Locke, and Smith and of course, our founders, men such as Jefferson and Madison, the rise of Cruz Bustamante may bear some alarming parallels to the career of the fifth [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:34-08:00 August 22nd, 2003|California, Human Events, Rome|Comments Off on The Odoacer Corollary

Mexifornia: a State of Becoming

It’s pretty clear that, Victor Davis Hanson, is on a roll. Just as communist sympathizers and apologists of the 60s and 70s, together with their press patrons, were successful in making it worse to call someone a communist than it was to be one (never mind the murder of millions), it seems that it has [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:34-08:00 August 12th, 2003|Book Reviews, California, Human Events|Comments Off on Mexifornia: a State of Becoming

Chinese Espionage and the Clinton Administration

Trulock’s Code Name Kindred Spirit Poses the Question:
 Who Stole the Bullets? The recent indictment of Katrina Leung, a millionaire socialite who assisted U.S. intelligence efforts as a federal informant and now faces 50 years in prison if found guilty of being a double agent for the Chinese government, underscores the extent to which the [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:35-08:00 June 1st, 2003|Book Reviews, Human Events|Comments Off on Chinese Espionage and the Clinton Administration

Straight Answers on War: Resolving to Use Force

Ms. Ryan – In response to your distinctly disingenuous plea (editorial page, Sept. 29th) for straight answers to the questions posed by President Bush’s embrace of preemption, unilateralism, and reckless militarism (for brevity –PURM), let me try to oblige by asking you to consider the following scenario. Imagine the Bush White House takes your counsel [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:40-08:00 October 13th, 2002|California, San Francisco Chronicle, US History|Comments Off on Straight Answers on War: Resolving to Use Force