Connecting.the.Dots

After six months of hiding behind Petraeus, the Decider will emerge tomorrow to tell a grateful nation that he accepts the General’s plan t...

In questioning Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker today, Sen. David Vitter cited “ups and downs” in Iraq. Before the day was out, Vitter w...

In the prolixity of Gen. Petraeus this week, there is a curious emphasis on the entity, “Al-Qaeda Iraq,” which, of course, did not exist unt...

Fifty five years ago, an American general who had won his war and was running for President, had some advice that Gen. David Petraeus and hi...

That morning, when the second airliner hit the Twin Towers, life changed for every American, starting with the inane man who was reading “Th...

In 2004, as a division commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus was asking a philosophical question to which he clearly had no answer, “Tell m...

In Little Leagues or Bigs, baseball fields are places to celebrate our national ideals--individual skills as part of a team effort where eve...

Now, after Osama’s pathetic stand-up routine , the Al Qaeda video production company is announcing a special with “the last testament of on...

In the second half of the twentieth century, Republicans expressed fears that core American values could be subverted by a foreign ideology....

The newest Republican candidate started to close the gaffe gap yesterday by telling Iowans why the Iraqis are turning against Al Qaeda. ...

Gov. Arnold, who knows about these things, is advising his party on how to get the grosses up next year. He told a Republican convention th...

When the fighting started, did the English have any idea how long it would go on? Did they expect to go through France in a cakewalk? It’s ...

In a moment out of distant American history when politics was supposed to stop at the water’s edge, the Bush Administration’s Ambassador to ...

The good news is that the President will be out of the U.S. more next year . The scary news is he will be spending the time with foreign lea...

There is something weird about Osama bin Laden’s new tape, an old-timer with dyed facial hair or, even worse, a chin rug, trying to be “with...

After taking the temperature of American voters about possible Presidents, Gallup announces that “only one--Barack Obama--stirs up warm fee...

In 1992, Joe Eszterhaus, the Mr. Sleaze of Hollywood scriptwriters (a very competitive category) gave us “Basic Instinct,” in which a best-s...

After the Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee turned down all offers to write his memoirs, saying that to do so would “be trading on the blood of ...

Does the word “impotent” ring a bell? While George Bush boasts about “kicking ass” in Iraq during his Australian stay, Americans and their ...

It started in 1994 when Bill Clinton went on MTV and answered a question about his underwear, “Boxers or briefs?” With only the slightest pa...