Most of the results are in for what the media had dubbed "Super Tuesday II" -- and there are few surprises. Sen. John McCain has clinched the GOP nomination. I'll hold my nose and vote for him. Mike Huckabee was hoping for a little bump to put his delegate total above that of Mitt Romney, […]
FactCheck.org does some excellent work, but don't be blinded by the "non-partisan" label -- a look at the bios of the group's fact-checkers reveals largely mainstream journalists and academics. There doesn't appear to be the kind of political balance that would work best in producing unbiased fact-checking in white-hot political season. A case in point […]
Alan Dershowitz, the liberal Harvard Law School professor with whom I agree with only on Israel, had an interesting Op-Ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal that raises some questions about what the new "rules" should be in the war against Islamist terrorists. The traditional sharp distinction between soldiers in uniform and civilians in nonmilitary garb […]
I must be getting old. I was flipping past G4TV's "Attack of the Show" and one of the people they were interviewing, vlogger Brigitte Dale, had this to say on the subject of music piracy had the following to say: There's been music piracy ever since there were CD-burners... And the first thing I thought […]
This one is a serious jaw-dropper. On a just-finished conference call in which retired military leaders endorsed Hillary Clinton to be commander in chief, retired General Wesley Clark said John McCain's military experience is not the right kind of experience to command the nation's armed forces: In the national security business, the question is, do […]
If you didn't watch CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night, then you might have missed the bombshell report by Scott Pelley making the case that Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham was framed and Clinton hatchet man Sidney Blumenthal was involved in the frame up. Of course, that's all wrong. CBS of "Rathergate" fame doesn't air thinly sourced […]
Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. Like his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama has promised to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement after six months if it isn't renegotiated to his liking should he be elected president. The problem is that Obama has had his senior economic adviser, Austin Goolsbee, telling […]
Someone, please tell Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stop smashing her forehead against the wall separating the legislative branch from the executive. Pelosi said the two were unresponsive to Congress' inquiry, while the White House argues that contempt laws don't apply to the president or any of his staffers who invoke executive privilege. Mukasey, a Bush […]