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So I'm looking at books and DVDs when I come across Kenneth Timmerman's "The French Betrayal of America." As is to be expected with any political book, there are lots of 5-star reviews and lots of 1-star reviews. Of course, the 1-star reviews aren't actually of the book, they're of the book's politics. So, as […]

It's so hard to choose just one, but as I was listening to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on the radio today, Minnesota Sen. Mark Dayton revealed himself to be the winner. Dayton, a (you guessed it) Democrat, accused Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Richard Myers of contacting CBS News and trying […]

Al Franken isn't going to starve, but the little people may. In yet another sign of trouble for Air America Radio, the liberal talk network entering its fifth chaotic week on the air, co-founder and chairman Evan Cohen resigned Thursday, as did vice-chairman and investor Rex Sorensen. The company also failed to make its scheduled […]

As I was driving home Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to listen to liberal Alan Colmes' radio show and he was talking about Republicans questioning John "Flipper" Kerry's patriotism. Exhibit A was a quote by Kerry's bank account wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry, to an interviewer where she complained about the mean Republicans degrading her […]

Roll Call's Morton Kondracke has an excellent article on the third rail of American politics, Social Security.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld needs to take responsibility for the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by soldiers under his command by apologizing and resigning. Just over a decade ago, at the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' agents to enter the compound […]

Today is the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister's feat as the first to run a mile in less than four minutes. For the record: My best mile time was 7 minutes 48 seconds -- good enough for a D- in high school.

It's been 10 years since the genocide in Rwanda killed hundreds of thousands of people. The U.N. was there, supposedly to keep the peace, but read about what they let happen. In the first days of the 100-day genocide that left an estimated 800,000 people dead, an armored convoy of Belgian troops pulled up to […]