In 1998, three days after President Bill Clinton apologized to America for lying about his frolicking with Monica Lewinsky, he ordered military strikes on terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan. Called Operation Infinite Reach, they were described as retaliation for the bombings of the Kenya-Tanzania American embassies. They were widely regarded as ineffectual, and mocked
There’s a reason we don’t let 16-year-olds drive the big rigs. Although many of them might be able to pass the tests required to get the appropriate licenses and most have legs long enough to reach the pedals, we nevertheless don’t permit them to hop behind the wheel of a massive Peterbilt and, to paraphrase
Why didn’t Sir Isaac Newton, the famed English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, invent the automobile? Newton was a clever guy. He came up with calculus, and all it took was an apple dropping onto his noggin to give him his epiphany about gravity. He plotted the movement of planets and comets on paper using a
At the end of World War II, in a few rugged locations scattered about the Pacific, a handful of soldiers in Japan's Imperial Army refused to surrender. Second Lt. Hiroo Onoda was one. Onoda and three comrades hid out in the jungle on Lubang Island in the Philippines. One surrendered in 1953. Another
You know we like you, Ann. We've liked you for years. We've bought your books by the boxcar. We like the way you say stuff to TV cameras that other conservatives wouldn't whisper into their pillows at 3 a.m. We like the way you make hostile crowds laugh while looking sideways at each
