The Case for Bush: He’s Right on the War

There is much to say about John Kerry, and I hope to say some of it in my last pre-election column. But the focus of a wartime election is necessarily on the incumbent. He is the commander in chief. The big plans are his. His appointees, the military and the enemy all play their parts, Read More

Democrats Discover Homeland Security

The Democrats have found a new issue besides the racism of Trent Lott. As The New York Times explained last week, the Presidential hopefuls-Senator John Kerry, Senator John Edwards, Senator Joseph Lieberman and Governor Howard Dean-warn that the Bush administration hasn’t done enough to secure us against terrorism. Here is a perfect political position to Read More

We Have No Choice But to Fight, and Be Brave

“Is warlike Spain hatching a plot?”

You ask me anxiously. “And what

Of Scythia?” My dear Quinctius,

There’s a whole ocean guarding us.

So Horace mocked the political concerns of newly imperial Rome. Let the army and the barbarians scrap, far, far away. Meanwhile, let’s have some more wine, and where is that pretty Read More