No Straw Men

Last month at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New Orleans, several dozen leaders of the “Christian right” met to strategize next steps—but the meeting inevitably included discussion of missteps in the GOP presidential campaign.

“Sanford’s heart is in the right place, but he sure is tough to deal with We have to argue with him about everything!”

Can a conservative former congressman who helped impeach President Clinton, is a board member of the National Rifle Association and has done contract work with the ACLU dent Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid?

The more I think about it, Bob Barr’s apparent decision to enter the presidential race may be the worst news John McCain has gotten all year.

When former Rep. Bob Barr arrives in Kansas City on Saturday for the Heartland Libertarian Conference, organizers expect him to launch an exploratory committee for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

McCain tells a story of redemption and discovery, of a wild, rebellious kid who grew to discover the power of service and country.

There aren’t too many politicians in America who would dare admit they once frequented a strip club.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province

Japan recently had its first-ever adult expo at the Makuhari Messe convention center near Tokyo.

“Who am I?” begins the anonymous lady behind “Sex and the Street,” the new Princeton sex column. “I’m just an ordinary girl with an extraordinary preoccupation with sex.”

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece—not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: Home.

A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it.

A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.”

Many of us are frustrated with the war in Iraq. No one doubts that serious mistakes have been made, and everyone is anxious for a panacea. The problem is, instant gratification is not a strategy.