. . . a delightful stint in Sicily, following my dad's footsteps through one of the eleven countries he visited in World War II. His tour guide was George S. Patton, Jr., who permitted little time for sightseeing. Lady Di and I have made up for it. Pictures are being posted here, with many more to come.
President Reagan announced it on March 23, 1983. Critics quickly derided it as "Star Wars" and said it would never work but would upset the nuclear balance with the Soviets -- the first and only time progressives ever said a kind word for mutual assured destruction.
Now the intellectual and moral heirs of the mockers, President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel, are . . .
THE HOUSTON Chronicle editorial board got it right today. Hugo Chavez, the dead Venezuelan dictator was "a vitriolic socialist ideologue . . . who used his nation's oil wealth to welcome and abet anti-American terrorists the world over."
GREAT POLITICAL movies transcend that category and tell us something useful, often depressing, sometimes inspiring, about the human condition. The best of recent years was "The Lives of Others," the brilliant 2006 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film about an East German Stasi agent who spied on artists and intellectuals.
A powerful documentary now joins the list. It's . . .
UNITED NATIONS -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran was on track to build an atomic bomb by summer of 2013 and exhorted the U.S. [read United States] and other global powers to set a strict limit on Tehran's nuclear fuel production as the clear "red line" that would trigger military strikes.
. . . today it must be done. So let's perform our usual Saturday ablutions -- giving to charity, contributing to Romney -- then hear a long-overdue disquisition by Unca D, his own self, on one of America's most-important cultural treasures: . . .
