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“Bolton’s UN Debut: Falling Flat”

We can now declare the winners and losers in last week’s United Nations summit of more than
150 world leaders. Count United States Ambassador John Bolton – and his country – among the
losers. And list human rights – in some ways at least – among the winners.…

“Justice Roberts: Open to the World?”

“Looking at foreign law for support,” quipped Judge John Roberts at his confirmation hearing, “is
like looking out over a crowd and picking out your friends. You can find them. They’re there.
And that actually expands the discretion of the judge.”

Judge Roberts was responding to Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl, who opposes the
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“New Orleans: A View from Afar”

When tragedy breached the dikes of New Orleans last week, I was in Belgium – the heart of what
Donald Rumsfeld not long ago dismissed as “Old Europe,” a backwater too benighted to match
American progress on the frontiers of Iraq and Afghanistan.

To judge by initial news coverage and conversations, New Orleans will be remembered in Europe
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“Pat Robertson: Bringing Assassinations Back to Life?”

Televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for a covert operation to assassinate Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez, while not a crime, is an outrage. The 75-year-old founder of the Christian
Coalition publicly advocates that the United States commit an act of state terrorism.…