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Majority Whip James Clyburn -- the No. 3 man in the House -- revealed something that just makes you truly sad for the state of the Democratic Party which was once represented by Harry S Truman and John F. Kennedy. Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker […]

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Cohen wrote a column yesterday arguing against people having guns -- especially young adults -- except for him. According to [Fred] Thompson, the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech ( 32 dead) proved not that the shooter should have been in some sort of […]

According to Robert Novak (via Newsbusters) Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism face a very difficult path according to veteran journalist Bob Novak. The syndicated columnist made those remarks on a conference call with bloggers about his new book "The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington." Novak blamed liberal discrimination which […]

From Monday's "Best of the Web Today" comes this interesting bit: Take Me to the River A reader wrote to the New York Times to inquire as to why the paper refers to Iraq as "Mesopotamia" when describing the al Qaeda affiliate in that country. He received the following reply from the Public Editor's Office: […]

This post has been updated There's been a lot of competition, but this week's winner is Columbia Journalism Review's Paul McLeary who came up with this thoughtful, incisive bit of analysis on the dustup over The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist." How dare a college grad and engaged citizen volunteer to join the Army to fight […]

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 […]