My colleague John Armor points out that the often clueless Ninth Circuit deserves one cheer for its ruling in support of Arizona’s honest voter law. John may be too generous to note that this is one cheer more than Congress deserves for its “work,” some of which is, unfortunately, on display this afternoon.

Case in point: the Pat Tillman hearing. Tillman left behind a lucrative NFL career to volunteer to fight in Afghanistan. There he was killed in combat. His death was initially reported to have come about in a firefight with the enemy. It turned out that this report was false; […]

In fact, Mr. Edwards is correct about there being two Americas. One pays taxes, the other doesn’t.

Liberals of Mr. Edwards’ stripe talk at length about how upper income citizens don’t pay their “fair share,” but are studiously silent about how much they DO pay, and what the ephemeral phrase “fair share” is supposed to mean.

Here are the “two Americas” in actual facts and figures: One America — the top half of wage earners — pays virtually all the country’s federal income tax (97% to be exact). The other America is getting, for practical purposes, a free […]

Former Senator John Edwards has made a name for himself speaking about the “two Americas.” While I have not seen any very specific explanation of what these two Americas are, it’s reasonably clear that, in Mr. Edwards’ view, America No. 1 consists of rapacious, oppressive Robber Baron-wannabees, and America No. 2 consists of millions in the struggling proletariat skrimping by on whatever crumbs America No. 1 deigns to toss their way.

At least that’s what I used to understand the two Americas to be. Now I know differently.

America No. 1 consists of people who get $400 haircuts, and America No. 2 consists […]

MSNBC reports that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died.

For whatever else might be said of Yeltsin — and there is plenty, good and bad — no one of my generation will ever forget the picture of him standing on the tank in those crucial days during the attempted coup by old-line Communist generals against Gorbachev.

The amount of sheer physical courage it took for Yeltsin to confront the military was mind-boggling. When the Red Army soldiers didn’t shoot him, I knew the world’s long international nightmare, Soviet Communism, was over.