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As a rule, a president should be able to staff his administration with anyone he chooses, as long as they're not demonstrably incompetent or crooked. But I have to agree with this article in The Washington Post which takes John Bolton, the president's nominee to be U.N. ambassador, to task for appearing at his confirmation […]

Arizona Sen. John McCain announced today on MSNBC's "Hardball" program that he wouldn't be running for the GOP nomination for president in 2008. MATTHEWS: But bottom line, would you vote for what’s called the “nuclear option,” to get rid of the filibuster rule on judgeships? MCCAIN: No, I will not. MATTHEWS: You will stick with […]

The Democrats "Social Security Calculator" is rigged. Democrats, however, aren't pulling them down.

This is a good read.

The United Nations has OK'd a treaty that makes it illegal for terrorists to "to possess or threaten to use nuclear weapons or radioactive material." Boy, that's going to save us quite a bit of money. No need for all that Homeland Security spending.

National Review Online has posted an unsigned editorial on the state of the judiciary -- including addressing recent comments by Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Tom DeLay. Politicians of both parties regularly demonstrate that folly, error, and overreach are endemic to their trade. But judges are prone to the same failings. In recent decades, their […]

The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial department now has a blog. That's all I've got to say about that.

Sunday's New York Times had an article by soon-to-be-departing Public Editor Dan Okrent on, among other subjects, the Times' outrageous Editor's note, which I discussed last week. Samuel Glasser, a reader in Port Washington, N.Y., who identifies himself as a former reporter and editor with three major newspaper chains, spoke for many: "The idea that […]

Don't count Senators being able to keep a secret, especially when they know they shouldn't be telling it on national TV. Mr. Smith came to Washington again Monday, as an alias for a Central Intelligence Agency officer who works covertly. Senators, however, may have blown his cover. During questioning on John R. Bolton's nomination to […]

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a man whose dishonesty on Fox News Sunday a couple of years back provided this site with its best traffic day ever, was on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday and proved that times may change, but his dishonesty remains the same. From The Wall Street Journal editorial page [link for subscribers only]: […]