The Washington Times

Dear Department of Motor Vehicles Adjudication Services: It was so nice to hear from you after all this time. We had about given up. After all, it was Feb. 12 when we wrote in response to the “Notice of Infraction” we received from your friends at Automated Traffic Enforcement about going 36 miles an hour in a 25 mile-an-hour zone.

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The Washington Times

The Israeli military action in the West Bank, so it was widely said as events unfolded, led to huge upswings in the popularity both of Ariel Sharon among Israelis and of Yasser Arafat among Palestinians. In making their respective judgments, the two populations had spoken, vindicating the contending hard-line approaches favored by each of the two leaders. Or so it was said.

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The Washington Times

Many American commentators, myself included, have praised George W. Bush for the “moral clarity” of his vision of the long-term struggle against terrorism. More recently, however, analysis of the administration has focused on the ways in which reality first impinges and then imposes itself, obliterating along the way the reassurance the false and artificial “moral clarity” was providing.

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Blueprint Magazine

Last March, a campaign finance reform bill finally made its way out of Congress to the White House, where George W. Bush, abandoning long-standing Republican opposition, quietly signed it despite his view that it was flawed. But this was hardly Bush’s moment. Instead, it was the crowning achievement of his one-time rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has labored tirelessly on the issue for many years, consistently provoking sharp criticism from fellow Republicans.

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The Washington Times

Democrats and Republicans alike like to think that they are playing for all the marbles. The Holy Grail in American politics looks something like this: Your party controls the White House, has a majority in the House of Representatives, and a big enough majority in the Senate to ensure that you can confirm any judge acceptable to your own party, thus extending your political reach in the nominally apolitical judiciary branch over time.

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