I need to do more of this before summer ends.

Ten years after I left, turns out my home town is one of the top ten places to live. 7. Milton, Mass. Population: 25,700 Typical single-family home: $440,000 Estimated property taxes: $5,900 Pros: Close to Boston; borders conservation land Cons: Traffic, little commercial activity A former actress who appeared on Seinfeld, Carissa Steefel has traded… Continue reading

I’m a conservative and NRO reader, though not as much as I used to be (their coverage of science is, shall we say, uninspiring). But even ten or fifteen years back, I remember looking at those ads for annual National Review cruises in the print mag, and thinking: are they serious? How can you write… Continue reading

Krauthammer today: We don’t yet know if this strategy will work in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods. Nor can we be certain that this cooperation between essentially Sunni tribal forces and an essentially Shiite central government can endure. But what cannot be said — although it is now heard daily in Washington — is that the surge,… Continue reading

I agree with Jay: As for the whole withdraw-vs.-stick-it-out debate, I still want to hear the September report from Gen. Petraeus. I guess that makes me a stick-it-out guy these days. I don’t want to abandon Iraq to possible ‘ethnic cleansing, even genocide.’ But at the same time I know there are military reasons for… Continue reading