The Wrap-up

Jim Webb’s recent assertions to the contrary, George Allen is the “true conservative” and Reagan’s real heir in Virginia’s senatorial race.

Out with Joe Schwartz, in with Tim Wahlberg: Michigan’s seventh district sends a wake-up call to liberal Republicans.

When Israel occasionally, unintentionally and apologetically kills an un-uniformed Hamas militant, the world cries, War crime!, yet when Hamas repeatedly, intentionally shamelessly slaughters an Israeli civilian, the world averts its eyes. Victor Davis Hanson explores the “vocabulary of untruth.”

The U.N. General Committee refuses to put Taiwan’s application for membership on the agenda of the General Assembly.

If Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a mockery of the U.N., it was only because the U.N. has made a mockery of itself.

Mike Pence announces the RSC’s September priorities.

RSC members, together with their nonprofit supporters (including ACU), called for earmark reform at a press conference on Wednesday. Later that day, the bill passed.

Blog for Bolton here.

Wal-Mart recently announced that it will soon offer a 30-day supply of nearly 300 generic medicines for just $4 each. Target quickly followed, and surely Walgreens and others will be close behind. Who says that competition doesn’t work?

The WHO has reversed its long-held opposition to the use of DDT to fight malaria. Finally!

Oil discoveries off the Gulf Coast may boost American oil reserves by 50 percent and sustain declining gas prices. Meanwhile, the price for ethanol, which William O’Keefe calls a gimmick, more than doubles.

Reason’s Ronald Bailey responds to critics who allege that he’s a shill for oil companies.

Religious sensitivity has become a one-way street, wherein the rules are “enforced by Islamic mobs and abjectly followed by Western media, politicians and religious leaders.”