Syndicated Columns

Setting 9/11 trial in New York is absurd
November 20, 2009
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
Forced insurance raises constitutional issue
November 19, 2009
In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea.
Whiter Sosa is an embarrassment
November 19, 2009
Dear Sammy Sosa: Are you happy with yourself now? Are you more confident and self-assured? When you look in the mirror, do you like yourself better, now that you are white?
Bottom-up strategy could bypass Karzai
November 18, 2009
Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai?
Fear of offense is dangerous
November 18, 2009
That the Fort Hood gunman had plenty of enablers is unmistakable.
Trying terrorists in the U.S. is dangerous
November 17, 2009
The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Abortion makes return in health debate
November 16, 2009
Is it possible to hear the sound of hands wringing? Or of souls agonizing? Or of ironies clanging?
Cost of indecision in Afghanistan is too high
November 16, 2009
he more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees.
Struggling through the gray areas of life
November 15, 2009
They killed a killer last week.
Photographs, even ‘historic’ ones, can indeed lie
November 15, 2009
The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude.
Chavez’s headline addiction might cause conflict
November 15, 2009
Watching Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez call on his armed forces to “prepare for war” with Colombia, I couldn’t help wondering whether he will end up like the late star of the TV series “The Crocodile Hunter” — a victim of his own addiction to headlines.

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