Edmund Walsh is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 1999 and 2001. His articles for the magazine covered a range of political and policy topics, including gun control, taxation, electoral politics, and campaign coverage such as Al Gore's labor union outreach.
Like Tom Cruise, I have a need for speed. It's a primal instinct reawakened every time I get behind the wheel of a car. I may not have my Navy wings, but I pilot my compact sedan the way Chuck Yeager rode the wild blue.
WORLD WRESTLING Federation star The Rock has challenged George W. Bush and Al Gore to appear on the WWF's weekly Smackdown! program, watched, the organization claims, by some 14 million young voters. "You have approximately three weeks to decide to join us at Smackdown!," The Rock thundered a few…
BACK IN AUGUST, Al Gore told a Carthage, Tenn., audience, "If I was the parent of a child who went to an inner-city school that was failing, and I felt that there was absolutely no chance . . . of reform that would dramatically improve that school, I might be for vouchers also." It was a rare…
FOR YOUR AVERAGE "mild-mannered suburban mom," as CBS dubbed her last fall, Donna Dees-Thomases sure knows how to throw a party. There are several tens of thousands of protesters on the national Mall this Mother's Day for the Million Mom March she has organized (the exact figure will be endlessly…
IF ANYONE WAS EXPECTED to cause fits for the House Republican leadership, it wasn't Pat Toomey. A freshman congressman from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, Toomey is as straight-laced as the coal-belt district he represents. An Eagle Scout who became an investment banker, Toomey now owns a chain of…
"Are you sitting down?" the mechanic asked, and I knew I was in trouble. I chuckled nervously and told him to shoot. By the time he took a breath, the bill to get my old Buick running again was over $ 4,000, and I suddenly felt like someone considering whether to take a close relative off life…
CROWING ABOUT his record on crime at a community center in Boston the other day, President Clinton unveiled a proposal to spend $ 10 million on research into "smart gun" technology. This hightech approach to gun safety is the newest weapon in the fight to bring down gun manufacturers.
IF YOU BOUGHT ANYTHING over the Internet this holiday season, chances are you're a tax cheat. That's because online retailers from Amazon.com to Yahoo! rarely include sales taxes in the prices their customers pay. As a result, most buyers don't realize they're supposed to remit the tax themselves…
I have an unfortunate prejudice, one that living in the District of Columbia has only heightened: I dislike drivers with diplomatic license plates.
LAST WEDNESDAY, 40,000 low-income kids around the country got good news: They'd been awarded four-year scholarships to attend private schools, the winners in a lottery whose applicant pool was an astonishing 1.2 million. Plainly, the privately financed Children's Scholarship Fund is responding to a…