SIDESWIPE – AskGavino made some bold predictions about the FIFA World Cup.  How did things work out?  Ghana came within a whisker of being the first African side to ever reach the semi-finals but Gavino was right that no African team would reach the final.  Sunday’s finalists, Spain and the Netherlands, were both in Gavino’s [...]...

Liberal intellectuals have persistently demeaned the foreign policies of Republican presidents, characterizing a seeming willingness to apply American power as some sort of thought-deficient cowboy diplomacy.  Are the results any better under President Obama?  For the left, the basic precept is that dialogue – an intellectual activity – can be applied to resolve diplomatic differences without [...]...

SIDESWIPE – One week after President Obama said he wanted to kick ass over the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil leak, and three months after Democrat members of Congress walked through a Tea Party demonstration on Capitol Hill in an unsuccessful attempt to provoke abuse, Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge has been filmed assaulting a student who asked about his support of [...]...