Featured Articles — July 10, 2008

July 10, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

Barack’s Brilliant Ground Game By Karl Rove
For a campaign that says it wants to end the politics of the Bush-Cheney years, the Obama for President effort has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks of 2000 and 2004.

Iran’s Missile Threat By Wall Street Journal Editors
Talk about timing, perhaps fortuitous. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Prague signing an agreement that’s a first step toward protecting Europe from ballistic missile attack.

Our leaders are in carbon-cloud cuckoo land By Christopher Booker
For a perfect example of what is meant by “gesture politics” – an empty pledge given solely for effect, which the politician has no hope of honouring – one could not do better than this week’s commitment by the G8 leaders on how they want us to fight climate change.

Barack W. Bush? By Victor Davis Hanson
Almost everyone is talking about Barack Obama’s flip-flops, as the Senate’s most liberal member steadily moves to the political center and disowns firebrands like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger.

Beer: Is There Anything It Can’t Do? By George Will
Perhaps like many sensible citizens, you read Investor’s Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements. If so, you too may have been startled recently by an astonishing statement on that newspaper’s front page.

November’s Electoral College Map By Larry Sabato
Nobody now knows the exact contours of the November 4th Electoral College map. Nobody will know them until after the polls have closed. But except for the guessing game about the vice presidential nominations, there’s no greater fun to be had in July.

The Guns of November By Michael Hirsh
Will Iran’s missile test force the region to war?

The Era of Big Punitive Damage Awards Is Not Over By Ted Frank
The Exxon Valdez case won’t count for much without state tort reforms.

The Pain of the G-8’s Big Shrug By Nicholas D. Kristof
The G-8’s collective shrug about the Darfur genocide — because the victims are black, impoverished and hidden from television cameras — will be a lingering stain.

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