Opinion

• ABC News' Dan Childs on Michael Savage and Autism HuffingtonPost.com - Tue Jul 22, 9:29 PM ET

  Dan Childs of ABC News has run a piece about Michael Savage and his diatribe against people with autism.

• Send Karl Rove to Jail The Nation - Tue Jul 22, 6:47 PM ET

  The Nation -- Karl Rove has spent a career putting politics before due process, democracy and civil rights.

• McCain Campaign: Obama is "Frighteningly Inexperienced" The Nation - Tue Jul 22, 5:27 PM ET

  The Nation -- Barack Obama is in the midst of one of the more successful global tours by an American political leader in recent history.

• Obama Under the Microscope in Israel RealClearPolitics.com - Tue Jul 22, 10:30 AM ET

  Tomorrow, Barack Obama will step off his plane into Israel and under a microscope. While he is there, American voters - Jews, Evangelical Christians and others - who factor a presidential candidate's policies toward Israel into their electoral choice, will watch Obama's every step and listen to his every word very, very closely.

• Hard to Be Humble RealClearPolitics.com - Tue Jul 22, 11:30 AM ET

  For a while now, one of the strongest narratives working against Barack Obama has been the notion that he is an elitist and too full of himself.

• OBAMA FAKING IT Maggie Gallagher - Tue Jul 22, 7:58 PM ET

  Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?

• HOSANNA FOR POLAND'S UNSUNG HERO Georgie Anne Geyer - Tue Jul 22, 6:23 PM ET

  WASHINGTON -- When Bronislaw Geremek was tragically killed in a car crash in Poland in mid-July, most Americans did not recognize his name. Geremek, who? Bronislaw, what? Oh yes, we do know where Poland is -- more or less.

• 'Stunningly Shameful' The Weekly Standard - Mon Jul 21, 10:01 AM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 43 - 7/28/2008 - On January 23, 2008, during her keynote speech at the glitzy World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Condoleezza Rice made a surprisingly friendly gesture to the Iranian regime. She said, in this final year of the Bush administration, Iran and the United States could move towards a "new, more normal relationship."

• Over to You, Speaker Pelosi The Weekly Standard - Mon Jul 21, 9:44 AM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 43 - 7/28/2008 - Gas is still at $4 a gallon, but the good news is there's an emerging consensus on a measure that would help:

• REDUNDANCY GOOD, REDUNDANCY BAD James Kilpatrick - Sun Jul 20, 8:02 PM ET

  Every critic of the writing art, most memorably Professor William Strunk of Cornell, has inveighed against redundancy. E.B. White quoted him in "The Elements of Style." Let us listen up.

• HUMPHREY GAVE GREATEST CONVENTION SPEECH YOU'VE NEVER HEARD David Shribman - Sat Jul 19, 7:58 PM ET

  MINNEAPOLIS -- If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy. The last important speech to be delivered on an Aug. 28 was given by the Rev. Martin Luther King 45 years ago.

• JIMMY CARTER'S ENERGY IDEAS DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE Cynthia Tucker - Sat Jul 19, 7:58 PM ET

  Even in his home state of Georgia, former President Jimmy Carter does not receive universal acclaim. He is regarded by many as a weak-kneed appeaser or a naive do-gooder with a puritanical bent.

• MR. OBAMA VISITS THE WORLD Richard Reeves - Fri Jul 18, 7:59 PM ET

  PARIS -- "Alors," said a gendarme watching President John F. Kennedy step off Air Force One at Orly Airport on May 31, 1961, "he's a real all-American boy, that one."

• Obama, the Democrats, and the Surge The Weekly Standard - Fri Jul 18, 2:43 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - This is the week that the Democratic party ran up the white flag when it comes to the surge in Iraq. Leading the surrender was none other than Barack Obama, the Democratic party's presumptive nominee for president and among the most vocal critics of the counterinsurgency plan that has transformed the Iraq war from a potentially catastrophic loss to what may turn out to be a historically significant victory.

• Hero's Welcome Linda Chavez - Fri Jul 18, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - A country's heroes are a reflection of its people's values.

• The Untouchables Pat Buchanan - Fri Jul 18, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - To watch the contortions over that New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas is to understand whom it is impermissible to offend in the America of 2008.

• A Guide To The Movie Galaxy Brent Bozell III - Fri Jul 18, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - In the groves of academe, studying popular culture is often the preserve of nutty left-wing professors performing exotic Marxist autopsies on the imperialist dynamics of Donald Duck comic books. Academic conservatives are teaching and writing about Homer the Greek poet, not the cartoon, which is important but oftentimes leaves their audience without a learned guide to analyze the themes of our modern culture.

• What to Say Susan Estrich - Fri Jul 18, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - When my father died, so many years ago, my heart was broken. And then it got broken again. In the hours and days after his death, I was comforted by family and friends. But I couldn't help but notice who was missing, people I cared about, people I thought cared about me, who didn't call, didn't come, weren't there. Later, much later, I asked a few of those people why: Where had they been? Why didn't they come? And the answer was always the same.

• A Child Killer's Homecoming Mona Charen - Fri Jul 18, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - What can you say about a people who welcome a child murderer as a hero?

• McCain's Got 99 Problems HuffingtonPost.com - Tue Jul 22, 9:25 PM ET

  John McCain is having such a bad July that writing about his collective woes would require the patience and talent of David McCullough. Since I have neither, I turned (as I often do) to the wisdom of Jay-Z, and listed the first 99 that came to mind:

Most Popular Opinion

• A congressman's arrogance USATODAY.com - Mon Jul 21, 12:20 AM ET

  According to the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, just 14% of voters have a favorable view of Congress. Ouch! Even President Bush polls at twice that number.

• Filipino war's lessons for Iraq USATODAY.com - Tue Jul 22, 12:16 AM ET

  The handsome young Democratic nominee is the most spellbinding orator of his generation, promising dramatic change to correct economic injustice and bring an end to a bloody, unpopular war.

• Reconciling evil with faith USATODAY.com - Mon Jul 21, 12:16 AM ET

  The New Yorker (of all magazines) gave a good number of pages early last month to a quite brilliant book reviewer, James Wood, for a long essay on why he could no longer be a Christian.