The Washington Times

There is something I have long found vaguely off-key about the rhetoric encapsulated in the phrase “the greatest generation,” Tom Brokaw’s designation for the people who went off to fight and win World War II. It is not that their hardship and heroism warrant any lesser designation, but there is, indeed, something wrong with the word “greatest” – not as applied to them, but coming out of the mouths of us.

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The Washington Times

Perhaps not the first time, but surely by the third or fourth time President Bush referred to the events of a week ago as an act of war – to be answered by war. – there was no mistaking the clarity of national purpose, nor the consensus in favor of it. The World Trade Center towers were not reduced to rubble by a plane-bomb in a crime of mass murder. They were destroyed in an attack on the United States by an enemy slaughtering civilians.

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The Washington Times

Will Al Gore be the Democratic nominee for president in 2004? Or has the party passed him by, eager now for a new face and chock-full of ambitious aspirants?

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The Washington Times

The time has come to ask: Is there any issue of principle over which either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party is prepared to lose an election? When Democrats decide that they are going to back off on gun control because they are losing votes in the South, as news reports this summer described, and when Republicans find that they can fund stem-cell research provided that the blastocysts creating the stem-cell lines were destroyed outside the federally funded system, meaning the hard-line pro-life position has been jettisoned, then the question is hardly premature.

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