Tuesday was a bad day for supporters of Rudy Giuliani. It wasn’t so great for fans of Mitt Romney, either.
The Republican presidential race seems to be returning to the place where it started 18 months ago: with John McCain as the presumptive front-runner –despite his low standing among the Republican party’s conservative base.
Mr.   more

Holy books are like mirrors that reflect us back to ourselves. The loving hear calls to love more deeply; the hateful are confirmed in their hate. It is not the text that makes the religion what it is; it is the reader.
I find few religious scenes more inspiring than a synagogue on a morning when   more

To call anything the United Nations does a “new low” does an injustice to all the previous “old lows.”
How do you do worse than pass a resolution condemning Zionism as a form of racism on the anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht, as the UN did in 1974?
Still, even by the sordid standards of the UN,   more

Why is the Republicans’ three-legged stool wobbling?
Why aren’t economic, social and political conservatives pulling together during this primary season the way they have in the past? To understand, let’s imagine that we had three conservatives in the room with us–and that they said exactly what was on their minds.
The Economic Conservative:
It’s not my fault that   more

On January 28, Canada marks the 20th anniversary of what may be the most astounding decision in the nationÕs legal history: R. v. Morgentaler, the case that struck down CanadaÕs abortion laws.
The Morgentaler case was followed the next year by Daigle v. Tremblay, which clarified and amplified the Morgentaler ruling.
The result of the two decisions   more

fully and personally to the Palestinian cause than any previous president. At a press conference earlier that same day, standing alongside Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, Bush said:
“I’m confident that two democratic states living side by side in peace is in the interests not only of the Palestinians and the Israelis, but of the world.   more

My man Rudy Giuliani–for whom I act as an unpaid foreign-policy advisor–got smoked in the Republican Iowa caucuses: 4% of the vote.
Yet as the smoke clears, it’s going to become apparent that Rudy was the night’s big winner. Here’s why.
The actual Republican winner, Mike Huckabee, cannot win his party’s nomination. Huckabee’s strong social conservatism played   more