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… With his recent decision to launch Operation Odyssey Dawn, the code name for the air strikes against Libya's Moammar … has shown in his book "The Limits of Airpower," Johnson was never quite sure what those air assaults should or could … and no-fly zones have sometimes achieved their goals when those goals were clear, specific, and attainable.  But …

… weekend, as hundreds march to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the most evident colors may very well be red, white and … Day marches took place in colonial New York City, it was in the mid-19th century that the parade as we know it … but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay tribute to …

… In the early 1960s, the English economist, Joan Robinson, … lecturing to a U.S. audience on the British welfare state, was asked to comment on the American “welfare state.” … present in the New Deal years, and after World War II when both parties forged a consensus around fighting the …

… Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings are underway in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a rite of passage for … by Congress to expand its power.   While Madison’s proposal was not accepted, the council of revision debates reveal why … jeopardize a judge’s ability to evaluate an issue fairly when it was brought before his court.   The Constitution …

… Somewhere in the Davis Mountains of the vast Texas Trans-Pecos is a … McLaren and his followers are a little misguided. Texas was annexed in 1846 — under unusual circumstances, to be … and a special convention. The votes were not even close. When put to the citizens of Texas for ratification, the …

… This past summer the American public awoke to the spectacle of thousands of … get papers [e.g. legal status/work rights] in the North. It was not true. Our children are our future. Let’s protect … it’s more akin to a traffic ticket than arrest for assault. When discussing the issue of immigration, it is worth …

… how to hunt wolves. She can skin a moose. She lives way up there on America’s last frontier. So, we might think, here’s … and Orange County in the U.S. Congress. Add to the list Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire from the busy … map. The turning point was actually a decade earlier, when census numbers showed that the level of urbanization in …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich … whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, Solzhenitsyn would achieve worldwide fame as … during World War II, and in the aftermath of the war, when trainloads of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from …

… The United Nations declared 2019 to be the International … law. Early in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was in a predicament many people are familiar with—he was … available chemistry textbooks in Russian were translations) when he developed his periodic law.  Perhaps most important, …

… The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll … if largely forgotten, creators of rock and roll was born - Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe was born Rosetta … and even of sexuality. Tharpe’s career was cut short when she died of complications from diabetes in 1973, at the …

… has recirculated his five-year-old Middle East peace plan. The Prince first floated this proposal to President George … been the British territory of Palestine. The Arab response was to attack the fledgling Jewish state and for Egypt and … Israel received a barrage of kamikaze-style bombings. When extrapolated over a population of seven million, those …

… An 18-year-girl gives birth at the prom, allegedly suffocates or strangles her baby, leaves … of moral decay. George Will, in his column in the June 15 “Washington Post,” also described Drexler’s actions as the … of just under 40 percent. In other words, during the time when abortion became legal, the sexual revolution flourished …

… Last week’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have elicited … and guns, and killed 17 Americans. Before last week, it was the last American blood shed by foreigners on … in their discussions of Osama bin Laden in the press. When it went after Villa in 1916, all the United States …

… of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of … a foreign country: they do things differently there."  He was right. In the 1200s the papacy "knew" that it was a … say "sorry," didn't we? But, as my mother used to tell me when I was a boy, "sorry" does not always make it right. We …