West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, should never go on Fox News Sunday again. Last October, then-host Tony Snow eviscerated the good senator with his own words. Today, Rockefeller appeared alongside fellow Senator Pat Roberts and made an astounding claim that the media has completely ignored. WALLACE: I […]
Just got back from my first game at Petco Park, the Padres brand new ballpark. I must say that it's quite an impressive structure. And a Padres victory made it all the better. One interesting thing to note: Between the 3rd and 4th innings, the Marine Corps Hymn was played over the loudspeakers to honor […]
Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was hauled into court yesterday. This will thankfully silence some of those who have carped for years about President Bush's supposedly cozy relationship with the former Enron head. Others, it won't. [subscription required] Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter was all too quick to suggest that the friendship between Mr. Lay and […]
I confess I haven't followed internal Missouri politics very closely, so I can't independently assess all of today's New York Times editorial on the efforts of secretary of state Matt Blunt. But the editorial does contain one howler: Right now, Mr. Blunt is trying to stop St. Louis from holding early voting this fall. The […]
As I watched the news coverage yesterday of Sen. John Kerry's veep selection, I was struck by the utter stupidity of NBC's instapoll on the subject. When asked who would do a better job of running the country, 45 percent said Edwards, while 38 percent said Cheney. That finding runs counter to Bush's answer Wednesday […]
By now this is old news -- sort of -- but last weekend Sen. John Kerry came out with a statement that had me dumbstruck. Kerry and I disagree on a lot of things -- most things -- but on this we agree: I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does […]
National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru observes that what scares at least one former Clinton administration official most isn't Islamofacist terrorists, but conservative Christians. Many millions of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other religious believers will reject Reich's witless rhetorical oppositions. One can believe in the political "primacy of the individual," the obligation of all people to answer […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency, fresh off of a failure to get Iran to live up to international agreements it is a signatory to, is now going to press Israel to come clean about its nuclear status. Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, flew into Israel Tuesday for talks on ridding the […]
A couple of years ago there was a big ruckus here in San Diego when a U.S. Marine was sent to the border to pick up a couple of Marines who had (if I recall correctly) been partying in Tijuana. The Marine was supposed to turn off at the last exit and await his comrades […]