The Weekly Standard’s Victorino Matus writes on the death of Traudl Junge, 1920-2002: TRAUDL JUNGE had a solid resume. She was a journalist at Quick magazine, a freelance writer and editor, and even a technical adviser for a movie. But most of all, she was a secretary with almost superhuman skills at typing and dictation. And she was very good at following orders–a boss’s dream come true. But I imagine

The National Review’s Michael Ledeen writes eloquently on the death of General Vernon Walters, but he ends his piece on this strange note: […] He was too down to earth to be impressed by the intellectuals, and yet too well read and too cultured to fit into the world of Joe Six-pack. He never married, but he took a young naval officer under his wing, and made him his personal

“Git your livers, here! Git your pipin’ hot livers right here! Ice cold pancreases! Salty kindneys! Git your salty kidneys right here…!”

So, the House passed the Shays-Meehan Campaign Finance Bill — knowing full well (c’mon, they must!) that it won’t pass legal muster. *Sigh* Just so much reform posturing. How unbelievably shallow…

Today’s WSJ “Opinion Journal” feature article, “The ABA Goes to War,” contains these sentiments: Sometimes, as we stare at the ceiling at night, we wonder if these columns are too hard on lawyers. And then we go to work and hear what defense attorney Neal Sonnett said recently before the American Bar Association: ‘Our system does not work, democracy does not live, unless we are willing to give the same

“A man charged with carrying fake identification on a Virginia road near the Pentagon is being held on a judge’s order because of the uncertainty of his identity and the fear that he might run,” The Las Vegas Sun reports. “‘There is a substantial risk of the defendant’s flight,’ U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan said Wednesday. “Court papers identified him as ‘Imad Abdel-Fattah Hamed, aka Imad Nimer,’ but prosecutor John

Silla Brush of The Daily Princetonian asks, “Is a liberal academia biased against conservative faculty?” Here’s one answer, from conservative University politics professor, Robert George : there is an ethos in academia created by a preponderance of liberal professors. College campuses tend to be representative of leftist views…which is self-sustaining. ‘University policies reflect liberal ideological commitments,’ he said. […]George agreed that hiring bias is a reality. He says there is

TNR’s “Notebook” has a nice little item on the Ken Lay Senate hearings, “American Grandstand.” The gist: It takes special people to prompt feelings of sympathy for Ken Lay, but the members of the Senate Commerce Committee, it turns out, are pretty darn special. When the disgraced former Enron CEO appeared before the committee this week and, as expected, took the Fifth Amendment, the 21 senators practically crawled over one

Writing in The National Review, John Miller reports on the California state board of education’s attempts to (potentially, at least) circumvent Prop. 227: Under current law, kids can get out of English-language classes only if their parents sign waivers. The state board, however, would give teachers the same authority. It would also delete the provision requiring that children spend the first month of each school year in English classrooms. In