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In the wake of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the one thing that isn't needed in that country is more chaos. As distasteful as the rule of Pervez Musharraf is to democracy, it would be far worse for that nuclear-armed nation to plunge into a maelstrom that could end with radical […]

I'll probably be writing about the place of religion in public life for the rest of mine. While I'm generally opposed to the efforts of the radical left to scrub the public square of all religious speech -- and even more opposed efforts that seek to single out Christianity for special cleansing -- there is […]

Columnist/author Mark Steyn has a post up on his legal troubles with Canada's thought-crimes court, more commonly known as the Human Rights Commission. The notion that a Norwegian imam can make a statement in Norway but if a Canadian magazine quotes that statement in Canada it's a "hate crime" should be deeply shaming to all […]

Author/reporter Mark Bowden of "Black Hawk Down" fame had a piece in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer "In defense of waterboarding," that is well worth a read. No one should be prosecuted for waterboarding Abu Zubaydah. Several investigations are under way to find out who ordered the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, apparently an effort to cover […]

You've just got to shake your head at this sort of "reporting" by the Associated Press' Beth Fouhy on the Iowa caucuses. Hattie Irving, an 81-year old Iowan, has never participated in her state's presidential caucuses, but she plans to this time - to support Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I was very impressed with her as […]

A big part of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's campaign has been the idea that he's not just another politician. He's got a non-political background as a Baptist minister, and he's got a sense of humor and a penchant for straight talk. Unlike most politicians, he's also got what appears to be a rather thin […]

The Congressional Black Caucus today petitioned Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana to commute the sentence of an African-American thug because he beat up a white kid. If you've relied on television and mainstream media reports to inform your knowledge of the so-called Jena 6, then you might suspect me of coloring (no pun intended) my […]

I finally got around to reading presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's essay in Foreign Affairs a couple days back, and I must confess that there's enough miss in his hit-and-miss outline that he sounds more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan. In a New York Times profile last week, Huckabee said that his thinking on foreign […]

Those of you who saw this past summer's Mark Wahlberg movie "Shooter" are familiar with Bob Lee Swagger, the invention of Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter. "Shooter," in book form, is entitled "Point of Impact" and it's different enough from the movie that it's worth a read. Hunter's latest book, "The 47th Samurai" is […]

Time managing editor Adi Ignatius on that magazine's selection of Vladimir Putin as "Person of the Year": "It's not an honor ... we're not saying that he's a good person, we're not saying he's a bad person. He is the person who has most affected the news in 2007 and going forward." Nos. 2-5 were: […]