WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2008

BREAKING NEWS: Colombia claims it has rescued Ingrid Betancourt and three American hostages. Stay tuned to “The Corner” for more.

SHOT DOWN.  Kathleen Parker criticizes Gen. Wesley Clark’s criticism of John McCain.  Pete Hegseth and Jim Geraghty track the attacks on former POW McCain. OBAMA: BUSH’S SAVIOR?  Jonah Goldberg suspects that the spectacle of an Obama presidency might make the Bush legacy look pretty good by comparison.

GO GREEN RIVER.  Mary Fallin proposes a new object for oil exploration: Green River shale. President Bush would seem to be interested, judging by his pre-Doha speech today, as Planet Gore reports.

OILY PROPOSAL.  The Editors condemn Sen. Schumer’s plot to halt the no-bid oil contracts in Iraq:

Everyone agrees that Iraq needs an oil law, but this contention is absurd on its face. Schumer makes it sound like the gravest threat to the Iraqi state is more revenue. The fact is that sectarian strife has drastically diminished as oil revenues have been rising. That is because the troop surge that Schumer and his colleagues opposed has nearly ended Iraq’s civil war. It’s rich to hear Schumer berate an Exxon Mobil official at a hearing for supposedly working to undo the work of Gen. Petraeus and our troops when that has been the Democrats’ Iraq-war platform going on two years. Chutzpah? Sometimes you would think Sen. Schumer invented the word.

THE VICTORY OF DEFEAT.  Andrew C. McCarthy thinks David Horowitz and Ben Johnson have a winner in their new book on the war on terror, Party of Defeat.

A ZIMBABWAY FORWARD.  Roger Bate discusses efforts to contain Zimbabwe dictator, Robert Mugabe.

READIN’, WRITIN’, & RACISM.  Liam Julian catches our schools teaching hate in their Raza Studies program. After such indoctrination, kids will fit right in on campus — where the grievance du jour concerns colleges over-representing minorities in promo brochures. Phi Beta Cons reports.

PROGRESSIVELY WORSE.  Andrew C. McCarthy analyzes the Supreme Court ruling on child rape in Kennedy v. Louisiana.

OH, GROW UP.  NRO interviews author Diana West on her new book, The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization.

MISSING THE TARGET.  Jack Dunphy takes on an LAT editorial proposing ridiculous gun regulation.

AN INDEPENDENCE DAY INQUIRY.  Does patriotism still matter? Thomas Sowell explores the divide between old-fashioned patriots and self-styled cosmopolitans.

ONE FOR FIGHTING.  Michelle Malkin introduces us to a Hollywood patriot, Five For Fighting’s John Ondrasik.

IMPROMPTUS.  Jay Nordlinger on an extraordinary news article, a Lyle Lovett concert, a Gulf War aviator, and more.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE.  Tune in to watch Peter Robinson and Philip Bobbitt discuss the relationship between law and war strategy.

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