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NOW WOULD PRESIDENT BUSH please appoint an independent blue-ribbon commission to investigate the government's failure to anticipate or adequately prepare for the terrorist attacks on September 11? When we offered this suggestion two weeks ago, the Bush administration, led by Vice President Dick…
IF YOU EVER have a chance to go to a convention of journalism academics, skip it. I'll go for you. It's my job.
ONE OF THE LITTLE GAMES I play at the movies is keeping a list of Least Plausible Actors in the Role of a Ph.D. It's a long list.
THE CD BOOKLET of Eminem's last album, "The Marshall Mathers CD," is lovingly furnished with photos of the little boy from Michigan. The diaper years, grammar school, the pre-peroxide days of teen rebellion--are all represented. But the most winning of these pictures shows the many-named rapper…
A RECENT PIECE in Newsweek prompts an editor to reflect on that subversive phrase "rote memorization."
PRESIDENT BUSH has a lot to lose in dealing with Saddam Hussein. But the problem isn't what you think. Bush is likely to come out a winner if he sticks with his promise to bring about regime change in Iraq by deposing Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator is more unpopular at home and far weaker…
"DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS" is doubtless an imperative that Walter Jones has seen on bumper stickers in Washington. Yet Jones, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, has found a cause that has compelled him to mess with the Lone Star State. Actually, with Lyndon Johnson.
IN RECENT WEEKS THE WEEKLY STANDARD has published a number of articles concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). These have contained a large number of serious inaccuracies and misinterpretations. Among these articles were David Tell's The U.N.'s Israel…
THE MOST INTERESTING THING I've read in the papers recently is a New York Times review of "The Sexual Life of Catherine M." The book is a sexual memoir by a 53-year-old French art critic named Catherine Millet, and somehow it seems to represent the pathetic end-point of a series of very long and…
THE SAUDIS VS. ARAFAT? The terrorism documents captured on the West Bank by the Israeli Defense Forces contain fascinating details about the friendly relations between Saudi Arabia and Hamas, and consequent tensions between the Saudis and the Palestinian Authority. The documents seem to confirm the…
OVER THE PAST YEAR, the president, Congress, and the nation have been engaged in a serious public debate on human cloning. It has featured congressional hearings, industry lobbying, a House vote banning all human cloning, and months of delay and equivocation in the Senate. In all this time, no one…
AFTER HE BEAT an 80-year-old grandmother, took a mother with a stroller hostage, and robbed 11 London banks in broad daylight, Michael Wheatley was finally nabbed by British police late last month. Dubbed the Skull Cracker for his habit of pistol-whipping victims, Wheatley had transfixed the London…
SAN FRANCISCO California is the last place that ought to be embroiled in the slave reparations controversy. Slavery was never legal in the state. There were no plantations. Its ports were not slave trade centers--wrong coast. Nonetheless, California has become the first state to step into the…
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN'S New York Times column of last February 17 reads like a bad B-movie script. Finding himself in Saudi Arabia on a press trip, Friedman explains he "took the opportunity" of a dinner with Crown Prince Abdullah to try out on the crown prince an idea he had floated in an earlier…
IN GRUTTER V. BOLLINGER, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati last week upheld racial and ethnic preferences in admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. Liberals are celebrating a rare victory for affirmative action in the courts. However, the more profound impact of…
Fighting the Good Fight A History of the New York Conservative Party 1962-2002 by George J. Marlin St. Augustine's, 434 pp., $28 THE BATTLEFIELD of American politics is littered with the corpses of defeated third parties. Occasionally, such parties might sway the outcome of a presidential race, but…
WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, I stumbled across a small paperback autobiography by Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's. As I remember it, Kroc described the epiphany that was the seed of his whole empire: The key to creating a successful hamburger restaurant is not the hamburger, it's the fries. People…
Murder, Mystery, and Malone by Craig Rice Crippen & Landru, 196 pp., $27 IN 1946 CRAIG RICE, a female novelist with a masculine-sounding name, became the first writer of detective fiction to make the cover of Time magazine. Her hardcover sales figures matched those of her bestselling contemporaries…
THE WHITE HOUSE veto of the farm bill was bold and defiant, reflecting the strength and confidence of the president. The bill not only costs too much and imposes too many government controls, he said, but it's also filled with "so much that would be detrimental to farmers," their future would be…
Women in the Barracks The VMI Case and Equal Rights by Philippa Strum University Press of Kansas, 448 pp., $34.95 Philippa Strum's "Women in the Barracks" is a tale of good versus evil. Including everything from sociological critiques of all-male military schools as "male bonding rituals" (which…
Unholy War Terror in the Name of Islam by John L. Esposito Oxford University Press, 196 pp., $25 OSAMA BIN LADEN may be hunkered down, half-starved in some Pakistani village right now, yet he continues to sow considerable confusion among America's leftist academics. Take, for example, John L.…
IF PRESIDENT BUSH knows what's good for the country--and we think he does--he will immediately appoint an independent, blue-ribbon commission to investigate the government's failure to anticipate and adequately prepare for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Make George Shultz and Sam Nunn…
Below are the names of the men and women who have given their lives fighting the war on terrorism. Our debt to them is too great to repay. But it is right that today we reflect on their names, and honor them in our hearts with prayers and gratitude.
IS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION going wobbly? Is the president preparing to back off the bold pledges he made to the American people four months ago in his State of the Union address? The president warned us then that the clock was ticking in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was working hard to acquire weapons of…
GEORGE W. BUSH waited until he was safely in Europe to declare that he wanted no independent investigation into the "Phoenix memo," written in the summer of 2001, which detailed links between al Qaeda and young Arabs enrolled in American flight schools. The congressional intelligence committees are…
WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH wakes up in the morning, his first thoughts are not about Europe. He is likely to think about Iraq, the Middle East, Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Venezuela, Pakistan and India before turning his attention to Europe. Even then, it will be to contemplate a country on Europe's…
A TWO-YEAR stalemate between the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and a battery of academics over a yet-to-be-published book about the girls' school ended Monday. In a letter to scholar Andrea Hamilton, who wrote a history of the school as her dissertation in 1997, the Bryn Mawr trustees told Hamilton…
SINCE HIS APPEARANCE at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, everyone inside the Beltway has been in a tizzy over Ozzy Osbourne. But today, I'd like to change the subject from Ozzy to Ossie. Ossie Davis, that is.
SINCE THE END of World War II, the United States has regarded the al-Saud regime as a friend, or an ally, or at least a partner for stability in the Middle East. After September 11, it is time to call this assumption into question. It is time for the United States to rethink its relationship with…
ONE REASON to visit Las Vegas: cheap tables. At dozens of casinos on and off the Strip you can find blackjack with $5 minimums. At Casino Royale (which looks nothing like the casino in the movie), there are even dollar tables. More astounding, there are a few casinos like the Rio that offer $5…
YET ANOTHER federal appeals court has issued an opinion on whether a state university may use race in admitting students. This time the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit--which handles cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee--has approved race-based admissions at the Michigan Law…
A COMMON journalistic trope in recent years held that Bill Clinton was fortunate in his enemies: Whatever his personal or political faults--and they were many and grave--they were always redeemed, or at least diminished in scope, by the tactical bungling and sheer ickiness of people like Tom DeLay,…
A PHILOSOPHER'S JOB is to show you what you would otherwise miss because it is right in front of your nose, too close to focus on. In one of Mel Brooks's worst, funniest movies, he played a "stand-up philosopher," and we could use some stand-up philosophy right now. Have you ever wondered (a…
LAST WEEK'S STANDOFF at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and the suicide bombing at Rishon le Zion's Sheffield Pool Hall both made for gripping television. But neither will change the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the way the week's most significant development did. The week's…
ON HIS TRIP to Europe next week, President Bush will encounter more discontent among our allies than at any time in recent memory. A gulf is opening between our two continents, and the reasons are not just temporary or political. Deep-seated trends in Europe, quite apart from President Bush's…
THE CADETS at West Point didn't get a "be no." It's shorthand for the announcement cadets most love to hear: "There will be no parade today." Bad weather is usually what prompts a "be no." The phrase has also become cadet slang for something that won't happen. If your date cancels, you got a "be…
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR Gray Davis is known for his attention to detail and his aggressive fund-raising. But now, with a fresh scandal brewing, Davis is claiming he knows no details of a controversial government contract--and that a campaign contribution accepted by a state employee who pushed for the…
FROM THE FALL OF FRANCE and the retreat from Dunkirk in June 1940 until America was attacked at Pearl Harbor, England fought alone against the most formidable military machine in the world. Germany had also invaded its onetime ally the Soviet Union in June 1941, but that battle did little to…
AFTER A YEAR of internal debate, the Bush administration announced a decision last week: The United States would no longer consider itself a signatory to the Rome Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court. The world barely reacted. The American media yawned. The policy decision was not…
Dostoevsky The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 by Joseph Frank Princeton University Press, 812 pp., $35 FOR MORE THAN twenty-five years, Joseph Frank has been writing the biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky. In 1976, he published "Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849," followed by "The Years of Ordeal,…
What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza Regnery, 218 pp., $27.95 IT BECOMES NECESSARY, from time to time, to defend America not just against physical attack but also against its intellectual enemies, foreign and domestic--and few are better qualified to provide such a defense than Dinesh…
THE JEFFORDS AUCTION Last week, the Washington Times's John McCaslin brought us the heartwarming tale of John McClaughry, president of the free-market Ethan Allen Institute in Concord, Vermont. Vermont, you'll recall, is the land of civil unionists, Chubby Hubby ice-cream manufacturers, and…
Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education edited by Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell Brookings, 320 pp., $42.95 Revolution at the Margins The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems by Frederick M. Hess Brookings, 268 pp., $18.95 Rhetoric versus Reality What We Know and What We Need to…
PRESIDENT BUSH has made plain from the start that the war on terrorism will be long and large. What he seems reluctant to admit is that it will also be expensive. Since September 11, the United States has routed the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, committed thousands of troops to assist in the…
THE PRESS, Tom Wolfe noted in "The Right Stuff," is a Victorian gentleman. After each event, the Victorian gent struggles to find the correct emotional response. Once the correct emotion has been discerned, it is repeated and recirculated with a pious self-assurance familiar to 19th-century drawing…
THE DAY THE WHITE HOUSE announced it would resume talks with "axis of evil" charter member North Korea, the president's administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development told an audience of policymakers and journalists in Washington just how evil that regime really is. Even as Andrew…
AT 7:53 A.M. local time on August 21, 1995, a Number 26 bus filled with Monday morning commuters slowed to a stop in front of Rene Kassem High School in the northern Ramat Eshkol suburb of Jerusalem. Rene Kassem just happened to be out of session that day; its students owe their lives to a fluke of…
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT an exclusive, 117-year-old private girls' school would object to having its history written by a capable historian? For reasons that remain obscure, the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore is blocking publication of a book about the school that was originally written--with the…
"DON'T FORGET to take them in for the new I.D. photos before you drop them off in class. They're doing it in the old classroom next to the gift shop. Catty-corner to the security office. The check is with the application. Got it?"
IF PRESIDENT BUSH knows what's good for the country--and we think he does--he will immediately appoint an independent, blue-ribbon commission to investigate the government's failure to anticipate and adequately prepare for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Make George Shultz and Sam Nunn…
THE CURRENT NEWSWEEK has a long, cover-story retrospective on the siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. The piece is invaluable for its detail--but exasperating for the filter of "objectivity" through which correspondent Joshua Hammer apparently feels obliged to view his otherwise excellent…
FOR THE SECOND TIME NOW, Michael Bellesiles, a historian at Emory University, is being accused of having relied on missing or nonexistent records for evidence in his Bancroft prize-winning book "Arming America." And, for the second time, Bellesiles's protestations and explanations have failed to…
COLUMNIST ROBERT NOVAK recently made the case that September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta did not meet with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague last year. The Czech officials who originally made that allegation, he wrote last Monday, "are divided and confused." If such a meeting did not take place,…
STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, Attack of the Clones. There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from the beginning, Lucas confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star Wars is that the…
DOES ANYBODY care about domestic policy anymore?
A NEW ZEALANDER I've never met sent me a present last week. When it arrived, I was immersed in our magazine's latest ruminations on European ambivalence about America, and the unexpected gift from a faraway friend-of-a-friend felt like a tonic.
RADEK SIKORSKI, the former deputy foreign minister of Poland and now head of the New Atlantic Initiative, recently pointed out to me that "there are no more contentious subjects in the world than the Middle East, Kashmir, Northern Ireland, and Cyprus." Unfortunately, he told me too late.
JOHN ASHCROFT is once again the subject of criticism from the left, this time for his department's filing in cases from Texas and Oklahoma in which the Supreme Court is being asked to interpret the Second Amendment. Its famous text is this: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security…
NEWSFLASH: When it comes to knowledge of their nation's history, American students are as dumb as rocks. The most recent confirmation of this perennial truth came last Thursday, when the Department of Education released the latest results from the U.S. History portion of the National Assessment of…
THE New York Review of Books has a fabulous record of getting it wrong. These are the characters who announced "The End of American Affluence" in 1997, just as the economy was ascending into the stratosphere. They were sure that welfare reform would lead to bodies in the streets; sure that…
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, the former Israeli prime minister, insists President Bush is the best friend Israel ever had in the White House. And in case anyone thought he'd foolishly gotten carried away the first time he said it--while addressing the pro-Israel rally on the Capitol grounds--he repeated it…
MAY 9 IS AN anniversary worth noting: Last year on that date, President Bush sent Congress the names of 11 judicial nominees for the U.S. circuit courts of appeal. One year later, 3 of them--including 2 Democrats named as a conciliatory gesture--have been confirmed by the Democratic Senate. Of the…
The U.N. secretary general gets entangled in l'Affaire Sommaruga.
FACED WITH A Democratic Senate that obstinately blocks his judicial nominations, George W. Bush and his allies have two options: They can sit around and wait for the next blow to fall (meanwhile praying that Republicans recover control of the Senate in November). Or they can fight back. Those they…
The Open Church by Michael Novak Transaction, 370 pp., $29.95 Three In One Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976-2000 by Michael Novak Rowman & Littlefield, 344 pp., $26.95 On Two Wings Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding by Michael Novak Encounter, 235 pp., $23.95 MANY…
OUR POLITICIANS have never shown their best side when confronting energy policy issues. In recent weeks Iraq's Saddam Hussein cut off his nation's oil exports to show solidarity with the Palestinians whose families he pays to strap suicide bombs to their children. Saudi Arabia, for its part, warned…
The Patient as Person Explorations in Medical Ethics by Paul Ramsey Yale University Press, 320 pp., $17.95 IN A TIME when war and cloning seem to dominate the news, it is worth recalling the writings of Paul Ramsey--for he spent a decade of his life thinking and writing about just-war theory, and…
With the Grain of the Universe The Church's Witness and Natural Theology by Stanley Hauerwas Brazos, 249 pp., $22.99 The Hauerwas Reader edited by John Berkman and Michael G. Cartwright Duke University Press, 744 pp., $27.95 WHAT DO THE POPE, a Mennonite pacifist, and the founder of the…
SY HERSH'S CONNIPTION FIT The Scrapbook admits to having enjoyed watching investigative reporter Seymour Hersh tweak the establishment over the years, even as his critics denounced him as a half-baked hatchet man. After all, when professional Kennedy-family apple-polisher Ted Sorensen decries…
THEY'RE OUT THERE every Sunday, rain or shine, killing time the Manhattan way. They travel as couples, and all four of each couple's eyes are haunted with confusion, downcast with disappointment, glittering with overstimulation. They're standing near the bathroom door at the corner Starbucks…
AMONG THE MAIN Mideast developments at this writing, it now appears that a United Nations commission will not be traveling to Jenin, but Yasser Arafat will be. The purpose of Arafat's Jenin visit is to draw public sympathy for residents of the United Nations refugee camp there, where fierce…
LAST WEEK, the New York Times's Patrick E. Tyler reported that President Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had agreed on a new strategy of joint action and pressure to break the deadlock in the Middle East crisis. American officials would talk bluntly with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon…
WE ARE LIVING in an age of evil. All people do, of course, but until very recently Americans had done a fine job of talking themselves out of believing in real, absolute evil. Now that the vacation from history is over and the president is focused on defeating an "axis of evil" and bringing…
AT 7:53 A.M. local time on August 21, 1995, a Number 26 bus filled with Monday morning commuters slowed to a stop in front of Rene Kassem High School in the northern Ramat Eshkol suburb of Jerusalem. Rene Kassem just happened to be out of session that day; its students owe their lives to a fluke of…
A PHILOSOPHER'S JOB is to show you what you would otherwise miss because it is right in front of your nose, too close to focus on. In one of Mel Brooks's worst, funniest movies, he played a "stand-up philosopher," and we could use some stand-up philosophy right now. Have you ever wondered (a…
ON WEDNESDAY, the Bush Education Department signaled its willingness to examine the rigid limitations that Title IX, the federal non-discrimination policy concerning sex in education, has placed on school districts wanting to establish single-sex schools and classes. Education secretary Rod Paige…
THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION (WNBA) kicks off its sixth season this month, and the sports-positive feminism machine is already cranked up. Since its debut in 1997, the league has endlessly trumpeted its slogan--"We got game"--and relentlessly pushed the idea that the women of the…
TODAY A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing designed to put Republicans on the defensive. "Ghosts of Nominations Past: Setting the Record Straight," is how the hearing is billed. By "nominations past," the Democrats, led by subcommittee chairman Charles Schumer, mean…
WASHINGTON IS OFTEN a frivolous town, a fact demonstrated once again by the ritual of self-mockery performed by President Bush and the media pandemonium over the presence of ghoulish rock star Ozzy Osbourne in the nation's capital. The occasion was the annual White House Correspondents' dinner last…
PRECISELY A MONTH AGO, on April 8, the Palestinian news agency Wafa was reporting that Israel had committed the "massacre of the 21st century" in the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin. "Medical sources" informed Wafa of "hundreds of martyrs." This was a lie, concocted not only for local…
RECENT NEWS REPORTS suggest that George Stephanopolous is likely to become the new host of ABC's "This Week." Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, the current co-hosts, are on their way out. And Stephanopolous recently spent $2 million on a new house in Georgetown. ABC hasn't yet announced any deal,…
IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE if Priscilla Owen, a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, thinks she has wound up in the wrong queue. A year ago this week, President Bush nominated her to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Later that month, James Jeffords bolted the Republican Party, shifting control of…
SEPTEMBER 11 was a transforming moment in the civic imagination of many Americans. To them, the attacks drove home the reality that pluralism, religious tolerance, equality, freedom, and prosperity are not the default condition of mankind but a fragile gift of history in need of our reverence and…
BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THE WAR . . . Republican gains in popularity since September 11 seem to have driven Democrats into paranoia and despair. At the Florida Democratic convention on April 14, the party's presidential candidates patted themselves on the back for defying threats and pressure, and for…
HARLEM With 6 months left until the midterm elections, and 31 months to go before the big dance in 2004, Democrat-watchers can be forgiven their campaign fatigue. It's not that election season has started prematurely, but rather that the 2000 presidential race never ended. So it appears on April…
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane Knopf, 256 pp., $24 IF A REVIEWER expresses "disappointment" in a book, it is evident that the book's author is going to be roughed up. But if that author has achieved a wide reputation for his craft--and had innumerable literary prizes bestowed upon him--then…
CRITICS OF THE United States have long called it imperialistic and compared its "empire" to those of the European colonial powers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Now, however, some American thinkers lay proud (or reluctant) claim to the title of empire. They compare the United States…
Tonight at Noon A Love Story by Sue Graham Mingus Pantheon Books, 288 pp., $24 FOR MANY, the name Charlie Mingus conjures the image of a goatee-sporting, jive-talking jazz bassist and composer, a mixture of New York beatnik and Angry Black Man. Mingus was all of those things. He hung out with Allen…
STRASBOURG, FRANCE The atmosphere of the first round of France's presidential election was captured by candidate Francois Bayrou's visit to Strasbourg on April 9. Bayrou, who represents Valery Giscard d'Estaing's center-right Union of French Democracy (UDF), was scheduled to visit a new mayoral…
What was the point of Saudi crown prince Abdullah's trip to Crawford, Texas? Nothing substantial emerged from the so-called summit. The Arabian oil autocrat said nothing at the end of his meeting with President Bush. No new guidelines for the Saudis' increasingly overdue investigation of their…
STRUGGLING TO TELL his mistress Louise Colet how deeply he felt about her, Flaubert exclaimed, "The language is inept." I suspect the old boy meant "insufficient," which, unfortunately, it often is. There ought, for example, to be a word that falls between "talent" and "genius"; and a word between…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. A low-pitched buzz hums from the lavender neon sign promoting the "Capital Ritz" banquet hall and dance studio in Cole County, Missouri. It's the perfect venue for a gathering of local Republican activists--with mirrors lining the studio walls, the group of maybe 150 looks…
Studs Lonigan A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day by James T. Farrell Penguin, 912 pp., $20 JAMES FARRELL is not exactly forgotten. Last year, in its much-ballyhooed list of the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century, the…
ANTI-ANTI-COMMUNISM, YET AGAIN Athan G. Theoharis has made a career out of the FBI. He produced a book called "J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime," another called "The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition," another called "From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover," another called .…
IN 1948, when the armies of five surrounding Arab dictatorships invaded tiny, newborn Israel--in what the secretary general of the Arab League announced was a "war of extermination" against "the Jews"--the United Nations sat on its ass. And did not send a fact-finding mission. But, oh, how the U.N.…
THE UMPIRE struck back. He ripped off his mask, turned to the stands where sat his tormentor, stalked over, breathed heavily several times to collect himself, looked up through the fence and fixed her with a hard countenance that would have made Captain Ahab say, "Boy, that guy is really angry."…
"ON 9/11, when America was suffering a great deal," Gary Bauer recently said on ABC's "Good Morning America," "there was dancing in Jenin and some other areas in the Middle East. The Israelis lowered their flag and declared a day of mourning. So, I think we need to keep in mind whose side we're on,…
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported Wednesday that the California state assembly is moving swiftly to ban ethnic mascots (specifically, Indian mascots) at all California public schools. I took special interest because the accompanying graphic featured the insignia of my own alma mater, Arcadia High…
I DON'T THINK domestic policy is coming back.
I'M ABOUT to make a stereotypical remark, so bear with me: I was running late to a press breakfast yesterday morning--by five minutes. Normally, this isn't a big deal since there's a ten minute lag time for late-comers and media-types who love gabbing in the foyers before getting dragged into a…
THE LATEST conspiracy theory inside the Beltway involves a Democrat who supposedly is sacrificing his own profit-making enterprise to deprive people in Washington of something they desperately want. That something is a major league baseball team, which Washington hasn't had for more than three…
UN SECRETARY GENERAL Kofi Annan's plan to send a high-level commission of inquiry to the West Bank Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin--where local UN officials and spokesman for a variety of terrorist organizations allege Israel has recently conducted a "massacre" of unarmed civilians--appears on…