The following business card showed up in my home mailbox this morning.

Do people who drive Hummers have little self-regard? Do people who drive Hummers do it to compensate for personal shortcomings? The answers to those questions are apparently yes and yes. Says who? Says the advertising agency who made the most…

The National Park Service announced last week that visitors will no longer be allowed to climb to the crown of the Statue of Liberty. The reasons given by the National Park Service: fire hazard and, you guessed it, terrorism. What…

Reports indicate that two FOX News journalists have been kidnapped in Gaza. I hope that they’re released quickly and unharmed. I also hope that, unlike Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll, who was abducted in Iraq and held for nearly…

Report: US helped Israel plan Lebanon offensiveBy Tom Regan | csmonitor.com A special report in The New Yorker says the Bush administration was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks against Hizbullah in Lebanon, and US officials hoped…

Is the U.S.-Pakistan alliance coming apart? That’s the leading question I answer in my newspaper column this week. Other recent columns: What are some of the hidden motives behind the current war between Lebanon and Israel? Is Zarqawi’s death a…

Prime Minister Maliki was very clear this morning; he said he does not want American troops to leave his country until his government can protect the Iraqi people. And I assured him that America will not abandon the Iraqi people.…

On Wednesday, I purchased my first gallon of biodiesel fuel for Chapman, my 1973 Mercedes-Benz 220D. I only bought one gallon of biodiesel because old cars like mine need time to get used to it. Biodiesel acts as a detergent…

Why did the Bush Administration fail to adequately plan to prevent Iraq from fracturing along religious sectarian lines? In his new book, Peter Galbraith has revealed one possible reason : President Bush might not have even known that Iraq had…