Friday, November 30, 2007

Featured Articles for Today

Stem Cell Vindication For Bush

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:58 AM CST

"If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." -- James A. Thomson WASHINGTON -- A decade ago, Thomson was...

Jock Wisdom and Political Debate

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:40 AM CST

Anyone who plays sports knows to avoid playing with lesser mortals. They will bring down your game. And so it goes, too, with political debate. The sophomoric CNN/YouTube debate Wednesday night...

The 'Sadat Standard'

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:39 AM CST

It is enough to look at the photograph, of George W. Bush expansively embracing Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert at Annapolis -- in just the way Bill Clinton embraced Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak at...

Too Bad Fred Won't Sell His Good Ideas

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:37 AM CST

On Fox News this Sunday, Fred Thompson laid out the most creative tax proposal yet in the race for president. It should have been an important moment, the point at which GOP aspirants finally dug...

An Embarrassing End to the YouTube Experiment

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:36 AM CST

And so ends in embarrassing failure the great YouTube Debate Experiment of Election 2008. Which is not to say that it wasn't entertaining, in the same way that David Letterman's "Stupid Human Tricks"...

Pandering the Theme of GOP Debate

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:35 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani did a fine job of achieving their objectives in Wednesday's Republican presidential debate: Each thoroughly discredited the other. They also disgraced...

Taylor's Murder Isn't Proof Of Any Narrative

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:26 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- Why do you suppose so many people were so quick to blame Sean Taylor for his own murder? Relax, that's a rhetorical question. There's no need for self-exculpatory huffing and puffing,...

Gerson's Sniping Memoir

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:25 AM CST

There's a lot to say about Michael Gerson's new book, "Heroic Conservatism." It has moments of lyricism; it is sometimes moving; it contains a concise and effective summation of the case for war with...

The Human Almanac

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:25 AM CST

Within the more than 1800 pages of the Almanac of American Politics, the true political junkie will find everything they ever wanted to know about the national landscape. Within Charles Mahtesian's...

Peace Process?

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:22 AM CST

As my FOX News team left the United States for our ninth embedment with U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the headlines were all about the resurrected "Mideast peace process." European papers touted the...

Blowback From Moscow

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:20 AM CST

Our next president will likely face a Russia led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, determined to stand up to a West that Russians believe played them for fools when they sought to be friends. ...

Another Conflict Americans Are Ignoring

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 12:15 AM CST

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- This is a town of stomach-jarring dirt streets, and fences topped with concertina wire, and charming lake vistas, and wandering goats, and burning trash,...

Romney, Giuliani Spar; CNN's Questiongate

Posted: 29 Nov 2007 10:00 PM CST

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) RUDY GIULIANI, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Mayor, your are going to take a holier than thou attitude that you were perfect on immigration-- MITT ROMNEY, (R)...

Notes on the State of Politics

Posted: 29 Nov 2007 02:30 PM CST

Mike Huckabee, Media Favorite Partisan critics of the news media insist that the media are fatally biased in one direction or the other, and certainly there are many examples of bias from all...

Huckabee is For Real

Posted: 29 Nov 2007 10:30 AM CST

It is not about Iowa only any more. Mike Huckabee has a real shot to be the Republican nominee. A month ago after the Values Voters conference I opined: I don't know that Mike Huckabee will win...