Goodbye to Mike Wallace.

The monumental broadcaster was 93. ADDED: Here 's a nicely detailed obit. Excerpt: Mr. Wallace was a master of the skeptical follow-up q...

Adele.

1. Delightful on "60 Minutes." 2. In depth analysis of why her songs make people cry.

Imagine starting something when you're 59 years old, and becoming a fixture — an icon — doing it for 30+ years.

Andy Rooney, dead at 92. ADDED: Did you ever notice how nobody notices Joe Piscopo anymore? That was from 1984, when it was considered hilar...

"Where does the story come from that I don't like beer? Come on, man."

Barack Obama on "60 Minutes," fending off a Steve Kroft crack about how he's gone out of his way to seem like the common man. ...

Scalia on "60 Minutes."

Jeralyn aptly identifies the highlights: torture is not punishment when you are trying to get information out of someone Fetuses are not per...

"How smart is it for a woman with such a bad reputation for truthfulness and veracity to put those character traits at the center of the campaign?"

Stuart Taylor, Jr. asks the classic I-thought-you-were-supposed-to-be-smart question of Hillary. He notes her ridiculous citation of Obama...

Orin Kerr devastates Frank Rich...

... with facts that Rich should be quite embarrassed not to have checked. ADDED: Rich also asserts that Thomas never turns a critical eye ...

Clarence Thomas on middle-class white women who think they're "oppressed."

Harsh words for feminists at pages 98-99: Many of the women I'd met [at Yale Law School] had come from the most privileged of circumstan...

Anita Hill reemerges, as she must, to respond to the Clarence Thomas memoir.

In an op-ed in the NYT: In the portion of his book that addresses my role in the Senate hearings into his nomination, Justice Thomas offers ...

Justice Clarence Thomas on "60 Minutes."

"I was never a liberal. I was radical," he says, talking about how difficult it was for him to go to work for a Republican after h...

"She was not the demure, religious, conservative person that they portrayed. That's not the person I knew."

"She could defend herself, let's just put it that way... She did not take slights very kindly and anyone who did anything, she resp...

"They're convinced that the United States will pack it in and go home if they just kill enough of us."

Says Dick Cheney, speaking of our terrorist enemies, on tonight's "60 Minutes." "They can't beat us in a standup fig...

Tom DeLay and the Texas Courts.

In the field of Federal Courts law -- where I've labored for twenty years -- there is a well-aired debate about the parity of state and ...

"This selection has become a political blunder of the first order."

The Wall Street Journal editorializes against the Miers nomination: Regarding Ms. Miers's qualifications, we aren't among those who...

Dan Rather's feeble apology.

Here's my read of Dan Rather's " statement on the documents ," which I'm going to put in writing before reading what a...

Watching television yesterday.

I watched a few of the news shows yesterday, including that Dan Rather "60 Minutes" interview with the feisty octogenarian Marian...

A third-rate forgery.

Somehow my effort to read the NYT this morning got stalled in the middle of Frank Rich 's explication of how Iraq is like Vietnam. It...

The swirl continues.

I complained yesterday that the Kerry camp is trying to create a swirly mass of confusion about the Swift Boat Vet ads (specifically about...

Clinton and Rather on 60 Minutes.

Clinton is a charming guy. I have no criticism of his 60 Minutes performance in pursuit of books sales--other than that he needs to control ...

American Idol: 60 minutes of results.

Well, the results show tonight is an exercise in prolongation. We see the kids at the EW photo shoot. We see them pretending to love being t...