Conservative Washington Post columnist George F. Will has listed some important questions conservative  members of the U.S. Senate have to ask Elena Kagan, Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. It’s a good list. Here are some of the best questions on it:

Regarding campaign finance “reforms”: If allowing the political class to write laws regulating the [...]

In the last decade, the number of colleges that assign summer reading to incoming freshmen has soared. The National Association of Scholars has tracked and analyzed 290 such programs—the most comprehensive study of “common reading” programs to date. The study reveals national patterns in book selection. Major findings include a widespread assignment of books that [...]

The foreign minister understands what should be abundantly clear across Europe: Aiding and abetting the segregation of a class that would fancy itself too “special” for civil law achieves the opposite of integration. “Støre bans Sharia councils,” by Michael Sandelson for The Foreigner, June 24: Jonas Gahr Støre, Labour’s (Ap)…

You wouldn’t know it from how the current ruling class treats dissent, but once upon a time, there was no greater crime in America than “questioning someone’s patriotism.”  The accusation that conservatives had been making a habit of this at all was severely overblown, but the other side of the coin is that, as much [...]

Watching Obama’s address on the oil spill tonight was like watching a professor of humanities give a lecture on U.S. foreign policy. Many of us have been there; you are in a college class (that you obviously pay for) and expect a certain result. Instead, you are treated to a political lecture about how we [...]

With Muslims established as a privileged class and non-Muslims converting to Islam simply to avoid the misery of second-class status, British prisoners already sound like Sharia entities. “Prisoners convert to Islam for jail perks,” by Richard Ford in The Times, June 8 (thanks to Paul): Inmates are converting to Islam…

Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want Students to Read Outside Class? June 03, 2010 By NAS In the last decade, the number of colleges that assign summer reading to incoming freshmen has soared. The National Association of Scholars has tracked and analyzed 290 such programs—the most comprehensive study of “common reading” programs to date. The [...]

When shady South Carolina blogger Will Folks claimed he had an affair with SC gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, I said we’d need a little more time to determine whether he was telling the truth,
So, here’s how I’m looking at the story. There will be some hard evidence if this happened. Nikki Haley didn’t thank him [...]

Commentary: At the National Tea Party Convention, Andrew Breitbart made an interesting series of remarks about where the persistent liberal victimhood memes come from: “Bad, racist, homophobic—all those buzzwords that they learned in their freshman orientation class at Wesleyan—are used as weapons to try to destroy you and intimidate you to not speak up.” Well, [...]

The Religious Left takes on the new Arizona law.