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After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ‘em hard and hit ‘em again. Show ‘em now that we’re gonna win…”

That is precisely what Israel has done in ...Read more

NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse i n the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left – May 28, 1970. He served at the hospital for two years where he treated wounded American soldiers and saw many die. He says while he was initially...Read more

CAM RANH, Vietnam – The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script.

Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha – known to ...Read more

Six months after their disastrous performance in last November’s election, The New York Times reports the Democratic Party is “still searching for the path forward.”

Democrats have hired consultants, one of whom asked voters what animal would they ...Read more

After many years living in and covering Washington, there is one overriding principle I have learned: If you don’t trust politicians you will never be disappointed.

President Trump and the House Republican leadership promised that what Trump called “politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3729538">Read more

The beginning of summer offers a columnist the opportunity to address subjects he might avoid the rest of the year because of his focus on domestic and foreign issues.

Inattention to proper English seems to be a subject that few are bothering to address. I have been making a list of misused words that in the past might have labeled a person ...Read more