BUSH CONTENDS PARTISAN CRITICS HURT WAR EFFORT, ran the headline in the New York Times last weekend. In suggesting that wartime critics are deficient in patriotism, President Bush contradicts the historic leaders of the Republican party.

For example, Theodore Roosevelt -- no greater superpatriot -- said in 1918 during the...

The indictment of Scooter Libby speeds the disintegration of the Bush presidency. The fundamental cause is the senseless war in Iraq. The Iraq War has become a running sore. The Korean War and the Vietnam War had better pretexts, but, despite this, the Korean War doomed President Truman in 1952...

There is the curious episode of the recent attempt by evangelical Christians to take over the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The Air Force Academy is a government institution on the model of West Point and Annapolis, sustained by taxpayers’ money and accountable to the Department of Defense. Yet...

The Yalta conference in February 1945 produced, according to President Bush, "one of the greatest wrongs of history." The Yalta agreements "followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.…Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable."

The American...