Since perhaps the beginning of time, and certainly most of American history, ambassadorships to certain nations have been used as political payback to a president's supporters. While career diplomats can rise to the ambassadorships of nations like Guinea-Bissau, if you want to be ambassador to, say Belgium, then your best bet is to help get […]
Washington State's associate climatologist has been canned because he dared point out that a commonly cited number on the decreasing snowpack in the Cascades was bogus.
Tony Snow's colon cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Pray for him. If there's any doubt that the left is full of hate and vitriol, you only need compare the heartfelt sympathy extended last week to Elizabeth Edwards by people of goodwill of all political stripes when it revealed that her cancer had […]
You've heard by now that a top aide to Sen. James Webb of Virginia was arrested Monday after he was caught taking a loaded handgun along with two additional clips of ammunition into a Senate office building. The aide, Phillip Thompson, has said the handgun belongs to Webb and that he had been "safekeeping" the […]