Chris Cox Has The Right Stuff
In his steady march back to "compassionate conservatism," George W. Bush has proposed federal expenditures center and left — at least $13 billion in fresh social and educational projects, for example....
View ArticleElection ’02 Flash The Mystery of The Alabama Governor'S Race
Frankly, the closeness of the race was a surprise: ALL indications throughout yesteday were that Riley would win BIG. But, although Siegelman will try to fight the results below, they should stand....
View ArticleWar For Freedom
Argue, if you want, with the decision to go to war in Iraq. Assert that the same kind of diplomatic efforts that have failed for 12 solid years would have worked if only given more time. Protest that...
View ArticlePryor's Restraint
The radical Left is attempting some Pryor restraint by trying to hamstring a new federal judicial nomination before it even comes close to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. But their target,...
View ArticleBad Strategy
The dirty little secret about how the Democrats (and their big-media echo chambers) choose which Republican judicial nominees to abuse is that their targets almost invariably fall into one of three...
View ArticleConstitutional Irrelevance?
So poorly reasoned was Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in the recent Texas sodomy case that perhaps its most dangerous precedent has gone overlooked. In the course of overturning existing...
View ArticleNo More Moore
First, let's get this straight: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is no hero. He's an oddball and a zealot. Second, the exemplary public servants during the recent Ten Commandments brouhaha have been the...
View ArticleHatch Vs. Gop Staff
Manuel Miranda, the Senate staffer who until today was Majority Leader Bill Frist's top adviser on judicial nominations, has left his post with a massive parting blast that should put to shame...
View ArticleConservatives Vent
A group of some 20 conservative activists gave two Republican senators an earful last Thursday evening, demanding that the Senate spend less time criticizing now-departed staffers and more time...
View ArticleDems' Water Boy
Why should Pennsylvania Republicans oust Arlen Specter from the Senate? Because he carries water for the absolute worst of the Senate Democrats.#ad#I saw this firsthand back in 1995 when on the payroll...
View ArticleLinks Not to Miss
Whether fans see sport as spectacle, as gripping drama, as character test--or as morality tale, patriotic grudge match, or human-interest tableau--this week's Open Championship ("British Open," as...
View ArticleOpen Script
If you're the script writer for the British Open--and yes, only a script writer could come up with the story lines produced each year by the world's oldest golf tournament--then you knew before this...
View ArticleEye of The Storm
As NRO fans read this on Thursday morning, winds of about 130 miles per hour should be raging around my house in Mobile, Alabama. It's an oddly bracing experience to be at the absolute bull's-eye on...
View ArticleUnholy Righteousness
In the final presidential debate and again and again on the campaign trail, Sen. John Kerry has insulted every Protestant in the country.#ad#While putting himself at odds with traditional Catholics and...
View ArticleCapitulation
Conservatives examining last night's Senate deal on judicial nominees should see it as not a compromise but, as a capitulation. It does not save the stature of the Senate, but confirms its reputation...
View ArticleA Great Golfer Says Goodbye
The greatest sportsman of our lifetime spent about an hour waiting out a rain delay, with five or six fans, near thesixth fairway of famed Congressional Country Club in 1995. They all were swapping...
View ArticleWhat Has Come to Pass
Mobile, Ala.--Here at the edge of the disaster area, anger competes fiercely with incalculable sadness for preeminence in my psyche. I may live in Mobile now; I may live, someday, in--who...
View ArticleCox For Scotus
Now that President George W. Bush has another chance to nominate an undeniably superb candidate for the Supreme Court, he has a encouragingly deep bench from which to choose. The deserving names are by...
View ArticleGala At Galatoire's
Maybe the good old New Orleans will recover after all.Galatoire's, which along with Antoine's rates as the most storied and traditional of all of New Orleans' plethora of famous restaurants, reopened...
View ArticleA Time to Lead
Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush, by Fred Barnes (Crown Forum, 224 pp., $23.95)For over a quarter-century, the engaging Fred Barnes has provided essential...
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