It's probably the most oft-quoted thing that President Jack Kennedy ever said: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." And it's something that you'd think that the diplomats at Foggy Bottom would have taken to heart long ago, but you'd be wrong. "Incoming is coming […]
Garry Wills, author of "Head and Heart: American Christianities," wrote this woefully inaccurate and misinformed op-ed piece in today's Los Angeles Times. I'll let Ramesh Ponnuru have the first word on this: He has a long, confused op-ed on abortion in the L. A. Times. His focus on evangelicals is a little odd—if all you […]
Paul Krugman thinks that he's Isaac Asimov's genius social scientist/psychohistorian Hari Seldon. At least he's got the "psycho" part right.
Yesterday, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced they would support Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey. Schumer was backed into this corner after he had tossed Mukasey's name out as an acceptable nominee while the president was deciding on his pick. Not even he thought the waterboarding canard was sufficient cover for […]
John Edwards' latest Web ad is just devastating. Ouch.
Seriously, I don't know how else to explain Sen. Ted Kennedy's explanation of why he's not going to vote to approve Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said Thursday that he intends to oppose the nomination, arguing that Mukasey's unwillingness to answer definitively on the legality of the interrogation […]
The media is biased. Yeah, you didn't need me to tell you that, but earlier this week the Project for Excellence in Journalism out of Harvard University released its first study on the 2008 presidential election coverage for Jan.-May 2007. It just doesn't feel right writing that. This super-early primary stuff is getting on my […]