John Leo

Samizdata’s Perry de Havilland takes on the E.U.’s windbag-of-the-month, Chris Patten, and leaves him in tatters. In

The Guardian keeps right on churning out the anti-U.S. vitriol, don’t it?

“A woman was arrested for

Breaking News: The Canadian pair gets a (shared) Gold. The French judge has been suspended. And figure skating is still

“Secretary of State Colin L. Powell strongly

Imcumbent-Hugging partisanship, reviled: The Cato Institute’s Daniel Henninger on the Shays-Meehan bill. Henninger begins his column with this amusing poke at Enron-related opportunism: Is there any truth to the rumor that one of the federal reforms likely to flow from the Enron scandal is that Congress will make daylight savings time permanent? Seriously, how can you not love a transcendental event like Enron? We may never know precisely what was

The wily William Quick has an instructive post on The New York Times’ increasingly evident anti-Bushism — particularly with regards to Bush’s hard line on North Korea (but generally speaking, as well) — a sad media situation not without its practical consequences: It’s getting to be quite sad. Howell Raines’s new regime at NYT appears to be so knee-jerk in its opposition to anything the Bush administration attempts that it

Crimson Crusader Glenn Kinen® takes on a German intellectual and persuasively argues the case for

TV with a conscience: Good Morning America — goaded on by a handful of breathless yentas with no scientific training and far too much time on their hands — declares war on “The Sippy Cup” and the “sweetened liquid” inside it. The new war is being declared on behalf of the children (natch), who find themselves placed in harm’s way — baby tooth decay is this month’s evil — as