Conversion: L’Chaim
EDITOR’S NOTE: Roger Williams was in the land of his grandfather this week tending to important matters. This column ran in 2007. This year Chanukah begins at sundown on Friday, Dec. 11.
My grandfather, Walter Nash, sat straight in the saddle on his quarter horse, Cherokee, watching me become a Jew. It was the fifth night of Chanukah (a.k.a. Hanukkah, or Hannukah). Full Story
Democrats waist deep in the Big Muddy
Otto von Bismarck at one point called the prospect of Germany waging preventive war against other European powers “committing suicide out of fear of death.” Full Story
Afghanistan looks more and more like Vietnam
COMMENTARY
President Barack Obama insists that his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending in 30,000 more troops is not Vietnam all over again.
Well, it sure reminds me of the perils and the price of that unwinnable war in Southeast Asia and the political chaos it wreaked at home. Full Story
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