David Holman

Peggy Noonan captures well why Obama is as hot as he is: He has obvious appeal. I asked a Young Democrat college student why he liked him. After all, I said, he has little experience. That’s part of what I…

Philip, the Clinton operation may not have to work too hard to dig up sordid details about Obama. This has been said before, but the man has not yet run in a serious race (sorry, Alan Keyes fans). He has…

So President Clinton wants dialogue with Iran. Of course, he is not the only one, but it is always entertaining to see him recycling his failed policies as new suggestions for today. (It reminds me of 1960s “spirit of Vatican…

Try this recording of Lessons and Carols at the Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge, from BBC Radio 3.

So reporters and pols alike are dismayed at having at work a five-day week in the new Congress. (That is, five days beginning Monday night and ending early Friday afternoon.) My thoughts are mixed. Typically, Congress leaving town is something…

Bush says Maliki is the “right guy” for Iraq. I wonder if Donald Rumsfeld might know a thing or two about how reassuring those words are.

If you haven’t heard, the president of the College of William and Mary, Gene Nichol, not only surrendered the fight to the multi-cultis over the College’s use of the Tribe mascot and feathers logo, but now he is fighting on…

Only something so infuriating could break me away from the reverie of supplemental jurisdiction and trespass to chattels. The wonderful, benevolent government of Fairfax County is requiring that kitchens that handout food to the poor be approved by the county….

Lawrence, I didn’t mean to claim any superlatives for Truro and Falls Church. Whole dioceses leaving are certainly significant events. In symbolism, the loss of these two parishes is quite a blow for the ECUSA. The parishes date to the…

Big news from Truro and Falls Church parishes: they’re out. This is the big moment that many in the Episcopal Church had expected.