“Dump the Saudis,” Rich Lowry counsels in today’s NRO. But first, topple Iraq and obviate the very need for the relationship of convenience we maintain with the House of Saud: […]a successful U.S. effort to topple Saddam and install a friendly regime in Baghdad would make the U.S.-Saudi alliance far less important. In many ways, Iraq seems a more natural candidate for friendship with the U.S. than does Saudi Arabia,

In his “Impromptus” column today, The National Review’s Jay Nordlinger writes: A story from Texas two days ago said that education secretary Rod Paige had returned home to Houston to ‘tout education spending increases’ in the administration

Christopher Caldwell of The Weekly Standard offers a scathing critique of the National Drug Control Policy’s SuperBowl advertisements. After noting that “We can leave aside the general question of whether government agencies ought to be spending the public’s money to — in effect — lobby that very same public to keep shelling out money for them,” Caldwell takes issue with one ad in particular, the 30-second spot in which the

Reader (and undergroundish cartoon sniper) Jim Treacher takes this typically nonsensical Rall scribble and turns it into something far more instructive: a dig at Teddy Boy his own silly, Bush-baitin’ self… [Hmm. Just had an idea: If Teddy hires Jim as his ghostwriter, a-and then gets somebody with a bit more artistic talent than himself to draw the pictures (like, say, any ten-year old hard up for a five spot)