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The Sony story is downright bizarre — and I don’t just mean the hacking. I include the decision to make the stupid movie in the first place. The plot of “The Interview” sounds like something cooked up in a third-world fantasy factory: The CIA recruits two American journalists to assassinate …

On Monday morning, the Jerusalem Post published the results of a poll on Israel’s next steps. About 10 percent of the public said that enough was enough and it was time for a cease-fire. Another 3 percent weren’t sure. But 86.5% of Jewish Israelis said that they want to keep …

During his presidency in the 1830s, Andrew Jackson fought a ferocious and successful battle to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, fearing that its powers were a threat to American democracy. We need a revival of this Jacksonian spirit with regards to the Federal Reserve, whose powers in …

The recent kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria is a dramatic and potentially tragic example of the fanaticism of Boko Haram and other Islamic militants operating along the seam between Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa. The Boko Haram terrorists have developed paramilitary capabilities, and their conduct of operations not just …

In conversations about politics and the world, I often find myself saying, “I wish there was more good news to write about.” I mean it. While there are many joyous personal moments to savor, society outside the front door is coming apart. As a friend put it, “The world seems …

Every Memorial Day weekend the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Marines visit New York for Fleet Week. They open their ships to tourists, and people young and old line up for hours for the chance to tour the best the U.S. military has to offer. You see old World War …

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is now up and operating. It’s an interesting amalgam: Tactically, it’s Bushian—but strategically, it’s Nixonian. The Obama approach copies the tactical emphasis of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election effort. On Monday, Mr. Obama’s manager Jim Messina told volunteers that the campaign would focus on …

President Obama is at it again. Soaring gasoline prices are hitting Americans where it hurts, and threatening to undermine our fragile recovery. With oil hitting $111 today, and gasoline topping $4 a gallon in many markets, economists are beginning to ratchet down their GDP forecasts, boding ill for continued job …

Years ago, when my young son and I visited a dude ranch in Montana, a local rancher told us he butch ered his cows for meat. My son, Scott, who was only 7, was horrified. “You kill your own cows and eat them?” he asked with urban disgust. The rancher …

I want to start by saying that from all that I hear, MTV’s new series “Skins” sounds like another deplorable step down for our culture and yet another blow against civility. That said, MTV is simply doing what MTV does best –and their viewers want their MTV. Or said another …