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Don't let Flydubai terror scare derail Abraham Accords progress

Editorials and columns

Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It's why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations. The response to such terrorism isn't to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright heroism. The world just saw precisely such heroism in the high drama aboard Flydubai Flight 1073, from Dubai to Tel Aviv. There was the Indian national pilot, Smit Machchhar, who, though bleeding badly after he was brutally stabbed by his terrorist Omani national copilot, had the presence of mind to open ...

Trump's populist image is dead

Editorials and columns

As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And ...

PROTECTIVE NETTING AND ELECTIONS

Editorials and columns

I’m concerned. I suspect you are as well. That old expression, “If it’s not one thing, it’s another,” applies more often and more intensely now. It’s like a foul ball coming out of left field that shatters your windshield, immediately followed by a wild pitch that takes out a ...

The Great Double Down (The Limit of American Powers)

Letters to the Editor

There is a man, a Russian man, that has sworn with total conviction that he will not end the war with Ukraine until Russia has taken control of all of the contested Ukrainian territory and he backs his conviction at the rate of 1,000-to-1,200 Russian Army casualties being granted every day. In America we have a man, a great American man pledged to help this Russian man, working to end the war with Ukraine. Now ask yourself given: 1) The Russian man's sworn conviction and his resulting action. 2) The Russian man's awareness of and constant communication with the great ...

The holy kiss and the hard work of loving one another

Editorials and columns

In Bill Watterson’s great comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin, 6, is horrified when informed that he kissed a girl before bed last night. After a moment he makes an exception to the rules of his G.R.O.S.S. club (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS). “Smooching is optional if it’s your mom” he ...