"I'm Todd Akin... Rape is an evil act. I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that I apologize."

Can you find it in your heart to forgive him ? If you forgive him, should you say, nevertheless: Get out, you're hurting your party righ...

"The sad fate of George Allen's A-list advisers."

From TNR. Poor Ed Gillespie: [CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. The macaca thing, I think that's what started all this. ... How do y...

Fiction and politics.

In the Virginia Senate race, George Allen wanted us to see his opponent Jim Webb as some sort of deviant because of some images and characte...

"If you want to read about attitudes toward females..."

So it's finally arrived! The day when we scour the files of political candidates for evidence about their attitudes toward females ! An...

Judging a candidate by his fiction writing.

George Allen attacks Jim Webb for the tawdriness in his novels. The stuff is rather awful, but it does seem lame to go after fiction. Poli...