In these impatient times, and ignoring the impact that America's unprecedented involvement is having on politics in the region, even true Western liberals now unfortunately regard democratization in the Middle East as nothing but a fool's errand.
Democracy hasn't failed in the Middle East. Rather, it has hardly been attempted, let alone defended, despite the Bush administration's commitments and correct understanding of its indispensability to U.S. national security.
There is no way around it: America's efforts to promote freedom in the world and protect her own security from Islamic extremism are ultimately dependent on success in Iraq.
Has a grand tradition of "military liberalism" come to a dead end in Iraq?
Who's advising the Democrats on gas gouging? Hugo Chavez?
Like it or not, surveillance cameras are coming to a street near you.
The category "immigrant" encompasses too great a diversity for the term "anti-immigrant" to have any useful meaning in the present debate.
Pictures of unknowing health can have a disturbing effect.
Folks who call George W. Bush and Republicans "cowboys" are dumb enough to think that's an insult.
In "doing something" about global warming, carbon taxes are as useless as carbon trading schemes.
Illinois Democrats raised the minimum wage and now state contractors are paying the price.
Reading and ripping the Senate immigration bill. Government unlimited. Thinkin' about Lincoln. Steel traps. Plus much more.
The coalition backing the Senate immigration bill is under pressure left and right.
Good books on our 16th President are always in season.
Hugo Chavez has replaced Mel Gibson as Mr. Glover's leading sidekick.
An interview with Mark Steyn, superstar.
Has President Bush himself read the immigration bill he claims its critics haven't? Has anyone?
A famed international human rights organization is always too happy to bash America first.
Can Republicans recover credibility? Also: Chicago -- whose kind of town? Elite convergence. Byzantine pride. Burning steel. Plus much more.
Principles are principal.
The telling story of a prodigal grandson.
Chicago is friendly, energetic, loyal, and Midwestern to the core.
It's easy to miss the story if its implications run counter to your own agenda.
The head of the National Council of Churches takes a parting shot at Jerry Falwell.
Doing as the Romans did? Illegal aliens and living wages. War heroes, then and now. The talented Messrs. Gore and Carter. Plus much more.
Oklahoma senator mulls presidential run. Also: Clinton-era Justice vetting crossed lines.
It's official: she was for the war before she was against it. Does it help that she remains staunchly anti-capitalist?
Qualities that make Messrs. Carter and Gore two of a kind.
A once great empire was put out of its misery 554 years ago today.
The last thing it does is increase the wages of the poor.
Thanks to its stellar commitment to free enterprise and democratic capitalism, Koch Industries doesn't have to toot its own horn.
Tributes to the War on Terror's lost heroes. An exchange: half-measures lose wars. Also: Going South. The Duke's middle name. Star Wars on track. Bending the rules. Conspiracy in Copenhagen. Plus more.
