Frank Cannon is a conservative political strategist and president of the American Principles Project. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering cultural values, electoral politics, and Republican strategy, including analysis of Hispanic voter outreach and the political landscape in the South.
There is an under-noticed bright spot for the Republican Party after the recent midterm election: Gains with Hispanic voters and Hispanic politicians.
IN ITS RECENT WORLD CUP CONTEST WITH ITALY, the U.S. team played what was widely regarded by the sport's connoisseurs as one of the best games ever played by an American soccer squad on foreign soil.
THE ONLY ICE to be found in the new center of the hockey world is in the mint julep cups being raised in celebration south of the Mason-Dixon, places where the average annual temperature hovers around 89.5 degrees and folks don't know a Howe from hominy.
"WHO ISN'T A 'VALUES VOTER'"? asks George Will in his most recent Washington Post column. Will's debating point is a familiar one: all voters in some sense are "values voters." A similar argument could be deployed against the terms "liberal" and "conservative," which Will uses throughout his piece.
IT WAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 72 hours before the polls opened in Georgia, and President George Bush was in the state for the fifth time in 2002--three of them campaign swings for Saxby Chambliss. It was part of the last stage of a fierce drive that put Bush in 17 states in 15 days. The president took…