"Don't it always seem to go," Joni Mitchell wrote decades ago, "that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?" Last week's Senate passage of legislation authorizing new sanctions against Vladimir Putin's Russia was much-ballyhooed, but much ado about little: The most meaningful ...
A foreseeable and dire munitions crisis BYLINE: By Rich Lowry --- During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances. Back then, when ...
In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...
For the past several years, I have enjoyed viewing friends' photos on Facebook of their children heading back to school. Many now have children in college, while some still have kids in high school. My friends often post their kindergarten or elementary school pictures next to the current photos to proudly show how much their children have grown. I can tell by the half grins on some of my friends' kids' faces that they were probably thinking, "Mom, whyyyy do you post these pictures of me every year?" I always find these reactions amusing, but I believe that when they are older, they will ...
There are a couple of stories that seem unrelated but are very related. They show the story of a country that used to build things and has decided, without ever quite admitting it, that building is too hard. Start with the missiles. Rep. Mike Turner was on television last week talking about ...
The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and ...
