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During my days as Texas agriculture commissioner, a farmer pointed out to me that you can count the seeds in an apple, but you can’t count the apples in a seed.

Why should anyone have been surprised that the senator who led the Republican Party of 2002 paid homage to the States Rights Party of 1948? Those Dixiecrats fatally extolled by Trent Lott at th

With a doctor in charge of the Senate, compassionate conservatism is well positioned to run roughshod over the issue that traditionally worked well for Democrats–healthcare.

There is a stunning disconnect between the terrible budget shortfalls facing states and localities and the priorities of federal tax-cutters. States face budget deficits of more than $60 billio

On January 7 George W.

If Congressional Democrats want to be more than George W.

The burgeoning Far East crisis has exposed the bankruptcy of US Korea policy.

Headlines tell us that United Nations arms inspectors have failed to find a “smoking gun” in their ongoing, unimpeded search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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Dear Dr. Marc,

During the 2000 campaign, candidate George W. Bush proclaimed that America must be “humble in how we treat nations that are figuring out how to chart their own course.” But that was then.

One of my cherished childhood memories is of my petite, polite mother closing the front door firmly on two hulking FBI agents who wanted to come in and ask her questions.

Korea has the bomb, but not to worry.
It’s not a crisis. No, we needn’t hurry
To get inspections back. Why try to spot
The weapons they already say they’ve got?

Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven people in downto

Thomas Mann’s popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.

The second year of machinations at the World Trade Center site has gotten off to a vigorous start.