If you haven't read it already, I encourage you to check out the op-ed piece in today's New York Times by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the center-left Brookings Institution. Once you've read it, think for a moment how this likely won't impact people like Sens. Harry Reid and Russ Feingold who've already decided […]
Sen. Ted Stevens -- the only senator I've ever personally ticked off with my reporting -- had his home raided today by the FBI and IRS. I don't know if Stevens is dirty or not. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised either way -- I think just about every politician who reaches a position of national […]
Chief Justice John Roberts had a "benign ideopathic seizure" today -- whatever that is. And of course the nutroots goes from straight into hoping for his death. Patterico points to supposedly kinda mainstream "Wonkette." Chief Justice John Roberts has died in his summer home in Maine. No, not really, but we know you have your […]
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. President George W. Bush's fault. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Bush's fault. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ditto. The failure to capture Osama bin Laden ... in 1998. Bush's fault. Ministers insisted that British secret agents would only be allowed to pass intelligence to the CIA to help it […]