To His Credit, Obama Didn't Just Come

Israel Is The Very Embodiment Of Jewish Continuity: It Is The Only Nation On Earth That Inhabits The Same Land, Bears The Same Name, Speaks The Same Language, And Worships The Same God That It Did 3,000 Years Ago. You Dig The Soil And You Find Pottery From Davidic Times, Coins From Bar Kokhba, And 2,000-year-old Scrolls Written In A Script Remarkably Like The One That Today Advertises Ice Cream At The Corner Candy Store.

In Explaining Any Puzzling Washington Phenomenon, Always Choose Stupidity Over Conspiracy, Incompetence Over Cunning. Anything Else Gives Them Too Much Credit.

If [bush's] Successors Don't Screw It Up, Within 10 Years Nasa Will Have Us Back To Where We Belong -- On Other Worlds.

Where There Is A Confluence Of Interests Among Nations, As, For Example The Swine Flu Or Polio, You Can Get Well Functioning International Institutions Like The World Health Organization. And You Can Act. Climate Change Is Different, Because The Science Remains Hypothetical And The Potential Costs Staggering.

After Endless Days Of Commuting On The Freeway To An Antiseptic, Sealed-window Office, There Is A Great Urge To Backpack In The Woods And Build A Fire.