The most telling snippet of White House spin on John Ashcroft came at the end of of Sunday’s WaPo article on his “complex tenure:” “They resented some of his showboating,” said a former White House aide who did not want to be identified to avoid offending Ashcroft. “Almost alone among the Cabinet secretaries, he was…

…from a reader: Are there “just” wars? What are the criteria? How do we respond to an “unjust” war and do we participate? This has been asked from the time of Augustine. I am saddened that so many evangelical Christians equate “patriotism” with doing God’s will, and so many Christian leaders like the recently deceased…

President Carter’s remarks about President Bush were further out of bounds than… (fill in a metaphor that works for you). In our day and age of political harshness, of the politics of divide and conquer, of everything else nasty going on we need to be able to count on certain people to be sensible. President…

Applause and applause for the immigration compromise. America needs to be known for our compassion – we once were. Newt Gingrich calls it a “compromise of every conservative principle” – if that is the case then conservative principles need a lot of reexamination. John McCain embraces it and good for him. If, as some say,…

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