Israel
Why the Gaza death rate is so high
After the U.S. had gained its footing and was fighting back in WWII, no one was sitting in the back seat telling America to knock it off because German or Japanese, or even French civilians, were dying.
9/11
What happened before this picture was snapped
The word “iconic” is greatly overused nowadays by people with limited vocabularies, but this image IS iconic. It is simultaneously inspiring, tragic, resolute. Pictured with President George W. Bush atop a crushed New York Fire Department pumper truck amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center towers was retired firefighter
9/11
A letter to the bin Laden fan club
The Talk of the Day Thursday was the breaking story that some 25-year-old Left Coast “influencer” had discovered a tape of Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America” and posted it on Tik Tok, and received thousands of “likes” and positive statements from ignorant sheep viewers, mostly young. This
9/11
The next 9/11 awaits us
Something has to be said, but what hasn’t been said already? Last year -- the 20th anniversary — delivered an orgy of remembrance, anger, sadness, sickness. For the Millennials, it was their Day of Infamy. For Boomers it was Nov. 22, 1963 again. An unspeakable tragedy, a tape measure of
9/11
On 9/11 + 20: America won battles, Afghans lost the war
It has been 20 years since the attack that changed America, and in those 20 years not a single attack against us was planned and executed from Afghanistan. In case you forgot, that’s why we went in -- to destroy the al-Qaeda terrorist network and bring to justice its
Coronavirus
Virus: In our hour of darkness. . .
Let’s take a walk on the sunny side of the street today. Should I mention “sunny” when this is one of the darkest periods of American history? But I say “one of,” not “the” darkest period of American history. What was darker? There are several candidates. Start at the
Coronavirus
Virus: Get ready for our finest, and worst, hour
When someone references the psychologically shocking terms “Pearl Harbor” and “9/11” to describe what is hurtling down the mountain toward us, our ears prick up like Doberman guard dogs. Even more so when the speaker is the U.S. Surgeon General, the movie-star handsome Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, on