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David Holman

by | Jun 30, 2006

Jack Kingston fires back at conservative bloggers who questioned his commitment to eliminating wasteful pork and shrinking the size of goverment. His press secretary implies that I thought he should “hide under a rock” and not expose sunlight. I meant…

by | Jun 29, 2006

Responding to the post below, a reader notes how awfully stiff the candidate is. Our American Spectator intern, Maggie McGlynn, and I had a chance to catch Jim Webb and Mark Warner this afternoon in Alexandria for a very brief…

by | Jun 29, 2006

Jed, You’re right that the Court does not explicitly rule that, but that is the effect of the decision. Your third point seems to support this.

by | Jun 29, 2006

The first in-state poll of likely voters has George Allen up over Jim Webb by almost 20 percentage points. High margin of error, but a great position for Allen nonetheless. Allen grabs 26 percent of the black vote. Maybe the…

by | Jun 29, 2006

That is what the Supreme Court has apparently ruled today in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (pdf). The U.S. will be bound by the Geneva Convention in its war on al Qaeda — even though al Qaeda is not party to the…

by | Jun 29, 2006

The poisonous, threatening tone of the left is not confined to the Huffington Post. If you had any doubt after my report on the threatening phone calls to Swift Boat veterans, check out the comments on this post at a…

by | Jun 29, 2006

That is the advanced legal reasoning required to take down the Voting Rights Act, Abigail Thernstrom writes in her WSJ recap of LULAC v. Perry.

by | Jun 28, 2006

Rep. Jack Kingston introduces “MailTube”: upload a video question to Google Video or YouTube, then Kingston will answer you via a YouTube video. It’s a neat idea, but Kingston should have invited a couple more questions, because his first answer…

by | Jun 28, 2006

I had a chance to attend a Federalist Society event this afternoon on the renewal of certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act. The main questions surround Section 5, which mandates that certain Southern states (and parts of California and…

by | Jun 28, 2006

The Hill reports that House Republican leaders will introduce a resolution today condemning the New York Times for revealing classified information and compromising government efforts against terrorists. (Hat tip to Tim Chapman.) I expect this discussion to build momentum for…

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