No matter how much we’d like to believe in the inevitably of human progress and the spread of enlightened norms, we’ve learned the past couple of years that we still need artillery shells — lots of artillery shells. The Hamas terror attack, together with the ongoing Ukraine war and the ...
Politics, especially small town politics, is a tough business. It’s pretty common theme that people who live in rural municipalities don’t really like government to begin with, so when local elected officials do something local residents don’t like, there’s likely to be trouble. ...
When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil’s Island in Cuba, he did so heedless of the damage to the Constitution his experiment in torture and confinement without end would bring about. Bush made the case that torture and confinement at the U.S. Naval Base at ...
Israel’s 76-year conflict with the Palestinians, certain cliches -- like condemnations of the “cycle of violence” -- have calcified. Saturday’s attacks on Israeli civilians betray their total bankruptcy. Israel did nothing to provoke this attack. There was no raid, no strike on ...
Last Saturday, The Mining Journal published a submission from two Army majors, Phil Tarvainen and Ben Ordiway, that paid tribute to someone who made an impact on their lives: B.G. Bradley. Mr. Bradley was their writing teacher when both attended Westwood High School. They graduated in 2004, ...
We have a crisis at the border that requires a functional U.S. Congress, and we don’t have one. President Joe Biden can only do what he can, and only of late has he sounded resolute. The “Republican-controlled” House of Representatives has no one in control. It is leaderless, and the ...