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Earlier this week, when I wished Vermont's Jim Jeffords well in his post-legislative career, a commenter suggested that we need more moderates/centrists in the Senate. That got me to thinking. Let's list some Republican moderates/centrists/"mavericks" in the Senate: Lincoln Chafee, R.I. John McCain, Ariz. Olympia Snowe, Maine Susan Collins, Maine Arlen Specter, Pa. If you […]

Nothing new there -- National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru posts his take on David Brooks' recent column on Roe v. Wade and the level of vitriol in American politics.

David Brooks' column in Thursday's New York Times is well worth a read. While I don't agree with his assessment of the effects of the proposed change to the Senate's filibuster rule -- or even the accuracy of his portrayal [PDF document] of it. In response, Republicans now threaten to change the Senate rules and […]

Another failure by The New York Times' Paul Krugman to deliver on his promise provide the "Krugman plan" for saving Social Security. No, Krugman would rather falsely disparage the quality of American healthcare. [T]he United States spends far more on health care than other advanced countries. Yet we don't appear to receive more medical services. […]

If 10 or 20 years down the line communist China decides to invade Taiwan because it has all of these nice, new, high-tech French-made weapons which are then used to kill American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, then we should nuke France just for good measure. During a state visit to China, French Premier Raffarin […]

Over at National Review's "The Corner" there are a plethora of posts on the John Bolton nomination. It appears that the more Melody Townsel's (of Mothers Opposing Bush) charges against Bolton come into public view, the more apparent it is that she's a big, fat liar.

The TSA has decided to finally close a huge loophole on its no-fly list, and that's got various Europeans, Mexicans and Canadians up in arms. Before, the no-fly list only applied to certain individuals taking off or landing at American airports. Now the TSA wants to apply the lists for flights that only overfly the […]

Sen. James Jeffords (I-Dairy Compact) has announced that he won't seek re-election. Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you on the way out.

Yesterday's "Best of the Web Today" over at OpinionJournal.com had an item called "Give Me That Old Time Derision." Liberal Democrats are opposed to religion in politics, except when they're for it. "We need to kick the money changers out of the temple and restore moral values to America," Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean […]

The Los Angeles Times has fired reporter Eric Slater over a "flawed" (read: full of lies, including "the" and "and") article on the death of a Chico State student in a hazing incident. If you read between the lines on all of the corrections that have been made to the story, it appears as though […]