One of the screen’s greatest living actors (still going strong after more than 55 years in the profession), Christopher Lee, turned 85 today. And I don’t mind saying, it’s been an honor to have written for him on more than one occasion.

Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ: Mr. Moore was back from Cuba, where he made a documentary on the superiority of Castro’s health care system. Mr. Thompson suggested Mr. Moore is just another lefty who loves dictators. Mr. Moore challenged Mr. Thompson to a health-care debate and accused him of smoking embargoed cigars. Within hours Mr.… Continue reading

Forty years ago…on the eve of the Six Day War: We also forget that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was entirely unsought. Israel begged Jordan’s King Hussein to stay out of the conflict. Engaged in fierce combat with a numerically superior Egypt, Israel had no desire to open a new front just yards from… Continue reading

Douglas Wilson is so good he has to be quoted in detail: Take the vilest atheist you ever heard of. Imagine yourself sitting at his bedside shortly before he passes away. He says, following Sinatra, “I did it my way.” And then he adds, chuckling, “Got away with it too.” In our thought experiment, the… Continue reading

Boris Berezovsky on the state of denial in Russia today: It is a well-known historical fact that the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany constituted a replacement of Nazi oppression with Communist enslavement for Eastern European countries – an enslavement that lasted for 45 years, far longer than Nazism. Therefore, the defeat that Putin’s Russia… Continue reading