The Dark Lady, And Other Intellectuals
Susan Sontag, who has died at 71, was more than just a pretty face. When she made her splash among New York intellectuals in the Sixties, I was a college boy watching from afar in Michigan and grasping only a few enigmatic words people were quoting from her.
by Joe Sobran

Anti-Gun Brady Campaign Gets an "F"
You know the anti-gunners are desperate when they have to resort to
nonsense like this.

Senator Clinton Blasts Bush Over Abortion
Abortion crusader and New York Senator Hillary Clinton condemned US President George W. Bush Tuesday, claiming his withdrawal of funding from organizations that commit or promote abortions is harming women.

A Credibility Problem
If there is one thing that can be said about how the politicians conduct the state's business in Montgomery, Alabama, it is that it fails over and over to be credible.
by Gary Palmer

Making Shakespeare Contemporary
In order to enjoy Shakespeare properly, we have to accept his values as postulates, resisting the temptation to impose modern values on them, just as we have to understand that the words he uses often meant something different in his time from what they mean in ours.
by Joe Sobran

Thatcher Fined Over 'Coup Plot'
Margaret Thatcher's son has pleaded guilty in South Africa over his part in an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.

Democrats Must Seize Faith Issue, Judge Says
Alabama's only Democrat appellate judge says that Democrats must reclaim the faith issue. (She has a tough row to hoe.)

CBS Confronting Troubled Waters-- No Bridge in Sight
"We have no juice," the staff member said. "We're a dying business, and this didn't help us. Some people feel like CBS News could be out of business in five years."

Black Caucus Says No to Wealth for Blacks
Congressional Black Caucus members are already uniformly lining up in opposition to including individual retirement accounts as a key element of Social Security reform-- despite the fact that a specific proposal from the Bush administration has yet to arrive on Capitol Hill.

A New Ku Klux Klan at Work
There is a new sheriff in town. This time he is dressed in a black sheet.
by Jim Jackson

Fear of 'Getting Daschled' May End Obstruction Tactics
The 109th Congress has now convened and it did so without Tom Daschle, one of the most visible symbols of obstructionism in recent memory.
by Gary Palmer

Ohio Was Conclusive, But Washington Wasn't
The recent election indicated that the Democratic Party is out of step with mainstream America. The action by the Congressional Black Caucus, supported by a few other left-wing liberals, indicates a Party on the rocks.

Lawmakers Up in Arms Over Mexico's 'How-to' for Illegals
A guide for Mexico's most valuable export -- illegal aliens.

Is the UN an Odious Organization?
The United Nations really is an amazing cultural fault line. On one side are those who believe that it is the last, best hope for mankind. On the other are those who think that title still belongs to America.

Lieberman: No Confidence in Kofi
Lieberman is the first prominent Democrat to suggest that it may be time for Kofi Annan to step aside.

Confused Northern Senator Tours Alabama
Among other things, a U.S. Senator asks, "how many more generations of central Alabamians will say yes when the increasingly powerful Republican Party asks them to be concerned about homosexuality but not about the security of their own health..."
by Hugh McInnish

Gay Abe
Was Abraham Lincoln ... gay? Was Honest Abe living a lie, denying who he was? Was his marriage to Mary Todd, which produced four sons, a sham?
by Joe Sobran