By a vote of 8-1, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the First Amendment protects the right of a fringe church to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals. As the Washington Post put it, the decision “writes a new chapter in the court’s findings that freedom of speech is so central to the nation that …
Stories In The New York Times How retro: 2011’s hot new trend is. . . anti-semitism! just today, in the front section alone: Yemen’s beleaguered president Ali Abdullah Saleh blames Israel and the US for uprisings in the Arab world; hotshit Dior designer John Galliano (now ex-) is going to face charges for saying that …
Two very interesting, fairly contradictory stories about young men, have recently appeared. In Slate, Mark Regnerus says that while young men are struggling in the world, especially in contrast with young women, they are still finding it fairly easy to bed young women. “We keep hearing that young men are failing to adapt to contemporary …
A couple of days after Defense Secretary Gates said in a speech that “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,” Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, another leader I respect, has been backing …
It has to be one of the most stunning statements ever uttered in public by an American Defense Secretary: last week in a speech at West Point, Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense to both President Bush and President Obama, and whose service has won him widespread respect, offered this view: “”In my …