From U.S. News & World Report’s “Washington Whispers” pages: Will somebody give President Bush’s speechwriter, Mike Gerson, a raise? What, you haven’t noticed that his boss, once belittled as ‘Dumya’ for all his embarrassing verbal flubs, is now winning kudos for his speeches, even from Clinton speechwriters? Fact is, those who study these things say Bush’s speeches are better and more image-filled than those of the original plain speaker, Harry

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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