Civil War lore has it that after Gen. Ulysses S. Grant turned the Union's lackluster war performance around, his critics complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Grant's heavy drinking. "I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks," Lincoln replied. "I would ...
His first name roughly means "first crop," which is what first-born son Omer was for Ronen and Orna Neutra 22 years ago. The photos his family shares show a young man bursting with life and possibility, broad smiles at the community center where he volunteered after school, pictures with his ...
There are many things many people want Congress to do. I would like a law that allows private citizens to execute any slowpoke in the fast lane on the interstate, right then and there as they hold up everyone behind them. Our constitutional system would make that difficult, and it would never ...
Today, it’s typical for young children to have a phone in their hands to keep in contact with friends and family or use a tablet for fun or for educational purposes. In fact, much of today’s school-related curricula relies on children accessing certain devices. Technology can be a useful ...
What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word daimon, meaning a deity (remember that the Greek gods were notoriously jealous and greedy), but demotic, from the Greek word demos, meaning the ...
The title of my 2003 book, "Useful Idiots," was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union. I wrote about Democrats. Twenty-one years later, the epithet belongs ...
