The Washington Times

The pre-Christmas announcement that Libya’s ruler, Moammar Gadhafi, has decided to end his development programs for and destroy his stocks of weapons of mass destruction [WMD] marks a watershed moment in the new Bush administration strategy of prevention. Make no mistake about what has happened, thanks to deft diplomacy by the administration and Tony Blair’s government in Britain: Col. Gadhafi has concluded that he is safer without such weapons.

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The Washington Times

Although I don’t imagine the comparison would please either of the two of them, the politician that Howard Dean most reminds me of is Newt Gingrich. The political projects each took on are also similar, but this is a chicken-and-egg matter: Do the times call forth the man, or does the man make the times?

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The Washington Times

Some of my fellow American panelists at a conference here, sponsored by the French Center on the United States, were expecting to get an earful from French panelists and members of the audience on the subject of the prime-contractor restrictions against France, Germany and Russia for Iraq reconstruction. I was, too. Wrong. The subject was barely touched upon.

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The Washington Times

How much difference can one person pressing an argument make? In the case of Andrew Sullivan and marriage rights for gays, the answer is a huge and perhaps decisive difference. In the eight years since he published “Virtually Normal,” which concluded with a call for gay marriage rights, he has refined his argument to force those confronting it to make a choice among three options: 1] accepting gay marriage; 2] stating a moral objection to homosexuality and homosexual life itself; and 3] incoherence.

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The Washington Times

Professional Republicans are increasingly getting the idea that they are a governing majority party, just as the Democrats under FDR became a governing majority party – and visions of 60 years or so of GOP electoral dominance, in the manner of the New Deal coalition, are dancing through their heads.

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