Jen, I hope McCain’s off-the-cuff endorsement of the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative holds. And I’d encourage him to support identical initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Nebraska as well. (Full disclosure: I am one of the official proponents of the Colorado initiative; having grown up in the...

I must have watched a different speech by Barack Obama in Berlin on Wednesday, judging from the as-always fawning coverage by the MSM here and here.  The speech I watched had hints of blame-America-first:  As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the...

Jennifer, I agree that Obama has a problem wooing white voters, as the Times piece pointed out, but it’s not much more severe than John Kerry’s problem in 2004, when he won only 41% of white votes. Democrats have been struggling with white voters for years. The Democrats...

It’s hard to know where to begin in responding to the New York Times’s latest poll on race relations.   Predictably, the Times depicts an America racially divided and in which things haven’t changed much in recent decades: The survey suggests that even as the nation crosses a racial threshold when it...

I saw Tony Snow for the last time a couple of months ago. I had boarded a plane from San Francisco to Dulles and had my head buried in a book, when I felt someone hit me on the head with a rolled up newspaper. I looked up, ready to...