Weekly Standard hits a home run

The Weekly Standard is chock full of excellent articles reporting on and analyzing the election. Read William Kristol's Misunderestimated

Exit polls aside, the election was not, in fact, a "squeaker."

David Gelernter's Truman Beats Dewey! Again!

One day Bush will depart the presidency. He will leave the nation transformed; and when he goes, people will praise him the way Eisenhower praised Truman after Election Day '48, for his "stark courage and fighting heart." Or maybe they will say what Truman told the nation about FDR, in Archibald MacLeish's words--"The courage of great men outlives them to become the courage of their people and the peoples of the world." Yet the greatest achievement, now as in '48, is the American people's. America really doesn't give a damn what Europe or the New York Times or Hollywood or the worldwide professoriate has to say. It tries hard to do right, and more often than not it succeeds.

Hugh Hewitt's The End of the Sixties

THE SIXTIES ended on September 11, 2001, but they were interred on the morning of November 3, 2004, when a senator from Massachusetts played the reverse role of another senator from Massachusetts 44 years earlier.

Jeffrey Bell and Frank Cannon's The Bush Realignment

Today, many voters' sense of security is equally threatened by military attacks by our terrorist enemies and by elitist judges' assaults on our ability to guard our moral standards by means of self-government here at home. As he thanked his supporters and the American people in the Ronald Reagan Building Wednesday afternoon, President Bush took a giant step toward a comparable achievement.

and finally, Fred Barnes' Act Two, in which he ponders what Bush could accomplish in his second term

A commitment to principle and a willingness to negotiate sound like they don't go together. But in politics, they do. They're the recipe for a successful presidency.

Excellent and thought-provoking articles all.