Senator Rafael Cruz, the Texas Republican freshman, has gained much notoriety in his first ten months in office. His intemperate attacks on the Administration and its policies reached a peak last month when he spoke for nearly twenty-one hours on the… more »

  Remember that kid when you were growing up, the one who wasn’t very skilled at some game or sport? Remember that he’d invariably tell his playmates that he” didn’t really like to play that game, anyway”? It seems that a group of these kids have grown… more »

  Note: I began this post three weeks ago, so it is not quite timely. Let me understand this: Obama was taken to school by Putin, allowing the Russians to take the lead on the whole Syria crisis and thereby damaging American standing in the world. Or… more »