Jimmy Carter thinks "it's okay" to legalize marijuana.

Well, then! He took the federalism angle: "That’s the way our country has developed over the last 200 years. It’s about a few states be...

"Now that legal pot is here, will cigarette companies dust off their old plans for mass commercialization?"

NPR explores the coming of legal marijuana: In the '70s... "there were high-level conversations about adding marijuana to tobacco, ...

Live-blogging Day 1 of the Democratic Convention.

4:58 CT: Just setting up a post, to be added to over the course of the evening. Please join the conversation. 6:53 (I'm beginning with r...

"President Obama's newest campaign commercial was filmed inside the West Wing of the White House..."

"... an act that campaign finance experts and good government groups generally agreed was legal if not particularly commendable." ...

"CNN Poll: George W. Bush only living ex-president under 50%."

He's at 43%. Carter 's at 54%. Clinton's way up at 66%. H.W. has 59%. I don't trust CNN polls. They had Walker and Barrett ...

Obama's Poland gaffe — you know, it was a Poland gaffe that lost the election in 1976 for Gerald Ford.

W hat Obama said was "Polish death camps," a terrible misstatement, carelessly referring to the geographic location of the camps ...

Obama announces his retirement from politics.

I received email from the President just now. The subject line: My last campaign. Ann -- In a few days, I'll be hitting the trail for my...

"Time to walk over to the polls and do the traditional thing of deciding who we're going to vote for on the walk over."

It's the Wisconsin primary today, and we're following the old family tradition of talking on the walk over and making the final deci...

Obama is more like Reagan than Carter, says Mark Schmitt.

But he needs the economy to recover so we can perceive it. Reagan recovered... in time for the "Morning in America" election of 19...

That "20 Worst Americans of all time" list compiled by Right Wing News by surveying conservative bloggers.

It's a ridiculous list, as lawprof Stephen Bainbridge points out : Personally, I find the collated list pretty much of a joke. It reflec...

The bookishness of Presidents.

Apparently, our Presidents tend to read a lot, but not necessarily to good effect. Like, for example, Jimmy Carter: Presidential reading bac...

"Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild world. It's hard to get by just upon a smile..."

Cat Stevens sang that: And we were talking about smiling. Do you use that tremendously effective device, the smile? It's hard to get by ...

"I think it's funny that I, a black man, would never have considered the possible racial implications of that gargoyle."

The Crack Emcee said. Hell, I wouldn't have even cared - while two white folks are all concerned and ready to point the finger at,...who...

"How Obama lost me" -- by an Obama supporter who's still going to vote for Obama.

You may remember that back in September 2004, I wrote a post called "How Kerry lost me." I mined my blog archive in an effort to ...

Jimmy Carter managed "to fool the voters with his toothy grin and pleasant countenance during most of the long 1976 campaign season."

It's weird — isn't it? — that Obama is letting himself appear so downbeat . Yeah, it's weird — especially since Obama initially ...

The Bob Dylan song that turned on Jimmy Carter is the one that Barack Obama calls a favorite.

I found it odd — and blogged about it here — that Barack Obama named "Maggie's Farm" as his favorite Bob Dylan song. So I sat...

Jimmy Carter defends his Hamas trip...

... and pushes his 23d book. Much as I'm outraged by his Hamas trip, I'm also outraged that he's published 23 books. Who does h...

"Her message is unapologetically emasculating."

Hillary's message is: If he does not have the gumption to put me in my place, when superdelegates are deserting me, money is drying up, ...

"Hamas Leader Vows Not to Recognize Israel After Carter Trumpets Terror Group's Willingness to Be Good 'Neighbor.'"

What a tool.

In which Mike Huckabee reminds me of Jimmy Carter.

About a year ago, when Gerald Ford died, I explained how it happened that I voted for him: I was all set to vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. ...