A lot of people don’t realize that “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the 1950s. But it’s pretty embarrassing that Karen Hughes, our illustrious Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, is telling opposition leaders in Egypt that the phrase is part of the Constitution (via It Affects You by way

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The New York Times reports that absurd numbers of college grads are applying to Teach for America — “12 percent of Yale’s graduates, 11 percent of Dartmouth’s and 8 percent of Harvard’s and Princeton’s” and “a record 17,350 recent college graduates” overall last year. That sounds great, but the problem is that the program isn’t

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Harriet Miers is a classic Bush nominee: the stealth loyalist. She’s probably better than, say, Janice Rogers Brown, but what she told David Frum is just ridiculous: In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most

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