Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who died last Friday at 86, was one of the true giants of conservatism during his 30 years in the U.S. Senate. Many a...
Jesse Helms, R.I.P.
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Beware the Supreme Court
It must be fun to be Justice Anthony Kennedy. You show up for a conference at the Supreme Court and almost always find that four of your colleagues...
The Democrats’ Dilemma on Iraq
The Democrats now find themselves in a thoroughly uncomfortable dilemma over Iraq. Back in the early days of the American invasion, when things were...
Here Comes Same-Sex Marriage
On Monday, June 16, San Francisco began implementing the ruling of the California Supreme Court authorizing same-sex marriages in the state....
Obama nails it down
So now it's all but official: The Democratic presidential nominee this year will be Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. And facing him, it has been clear...
Kiss and Tell
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's memoir, with its implication that President Bush and his allies overhyped the threat...
After Ted Kennedy
The news that Sen. Ted Kennedy has an inoperable malignant glioma in the left parietal sector of his brain is a major development in American...
Avoiding a Republican Rout in November
As matters stand, the Republican Party is facing an historic shellacking in November. In part, this is just the usual yin and yang of partisan...
Bob Barr Enters the Race
Former Republican congressman Robert Barr of Georgia recently announced he is running for president as a Libertarian. This is a formidable...
America: A White-Minority Nation?
In the May 4 New York Times, columnist Frank Rich asserts that "Anyone who does the math knows that America is on track to become a white-minority...
What’s ‘Out of Context’?
Whenever a political figure lets fly with some remark that bounces badly, he or she is likely to protest that it was taken "out of context." The...
The McCain surge
The remarkable performance of John McCain in the past few months has rightly garnered a lot of attention. Time was, not so long ago, when he was...