No Straw Men

Back when the Republican presidential race was still competitive, the insults against John McCain from leading conservative voices were so extravagant they almost constituted a new literary genre. Rush Limbaugh said McCain threatened “the American way of

While the military gave traditional journalists access to the battlefield from the start of the war in March 2003, only recently has the same courtesy been extended to ordinary bloggers.

It is now dishonorable to even make note of Jeremiah Wright’s bigotry and ask how any man–let alone a man on the threshold of the presidency–could associate himself for 20 years with the purveyor of such hate.

Like many people in his ill-starred position, Brown was snared by a mistaken identification. The victim picked him out of a police lineup, and her testimony provided the bulk of the evidence against him.

As recently as 2006, Hillary Clinton positioned herself as the heir to this trade-accommodating policy. She was not a “die-hard free-trader,” she said at the time, but she also wasn’t “an unreconstructed protectionist with very little regard, fran

Obama talks about the rights of “Americans to protect their families.” He has not yet stated whether that right should exist in Washington, D.C.

Pete Wehner has the rarest of White House jobs. He is paid to read, to think, to prod, to brainstorm — all without accountability. He recalls the words of White House senior adviser Karl Rove when he interviewed for the job: “He said my job is to bug him