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Breaking news! The ultimate White House insider plans a tell-all book about the Bush years. Boasting unprecedented access to the president's thinking, it will run counter to almost everything we've been told about Bush's radical presidency.
'Americans are a moral people. They will not sustain a foreign policy rooted in a cold pragmatism that averts its gaze from the tragedy of a little country to maintain cordial relations with its oppressor. Churchill said long ago: The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion."
Mark Steyn, my friend, colleague and arguably the most talented political writer working today, is on trial for thought crimes.
Al Gore claims (though I've found no evidence to back it up) that "good enough for government work" once implied that such work met the highest standards of excellence. Maybe. But in the U.S. Senate's kitchens, "good enough for government work" means any meal that doesn't require a stomach pump.
It looks like the presidential battle between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will be about one overarching theme: judgment versus experience. And Exhibit A will be the Iraq war.
'Lay off my wife."
Iadmit it: I'm no environmentalist. But I like to think I'm something of a conservationist.
What do Yucca Mountain and Guantanamo Bay have in common?
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. was a sideshow, a distraction, a sham and a shame. So sayeth many of the brightest stars in punditry. How sad that we wasted so much time on what Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post called an "absurd digression." Barack Obama himself constantly frets that we are "caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit for tat that consumes our politics," which "trivializes the profound issues." Yes, by all means, the profound issues are what the campaigners should grapple with. Grapple away on matters of substance and policy. Bread-and-butter concerns. Kitchen-table topics and pocketbook issues.
God bless the Rev. Jeremiah Wright!