When's the last time the worse looking of the 2 major party candidates won the Presidency?

A question I raise in the comments to this morning's body fat post. Here 's a list of all the candidates through American history. ...

Yesterday, we drove past the new "Occupy Madison" encampment...

... which you can see in the first 10 seconds of this 14-minute video... ... and you can hang out with Meade and me for the rest of the driv...

"Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists."

Rumsfeld's "snowflake" memos. Is the WaPo "running a story based off of selective quotations and gross mischaracterizatio...

"In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress..."

".. not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment." Says Robert Novak. [N]ot many Republican lawmakers would sp...

"Say you're an average congressman. How do you react to President Bush's Iraq speech?"

William Kristol channels congressional thought processes : You suspect, deep down, that he's probably doing more or less what he needs t...

Should judges accept amicus briefs from former judges?

Here's a conspicuous rejection: A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which will s...

"Clearly, the worst day was Abu Ghraib..."

"... seeing what went on there and feeling so deeply sorry that that happened." -- Donald Rumsfeld, leaving office.

Why Bush (the Elder) cried.

Peggy Noonan says: [N]o one who knows George H.W. Bush thinks that moment was only about Jeb.... Surely Mr. Bush knew--surely he was first o...

"The memo will be spun in the usual ways; the best thing is to read it for yourself."

Says John Hinderaker of the Rumsfeld memo -- leaked and published in the NYT . Exactly. Read the memo yourself: here . IN THE COMMENTS: St...

"Through the long, bloody summer and fall of 1864, the South had hung on only because of the belief that the North might tire of the conflict."

"But Lincoln did not tire. Instead, he doubled the bet--and won the war," writes William Stuntz (via Instapundit ). Of course, he...

"Is he stepping down? You bet. Does he admit defeat? Not by a long shot."

"Is the country going to miss the way he acted smarter than everyone else and often preempted media questions by interrogating himself ...

I'm back.

Hi, everyone. I'm back from Washington, with a class to teach in a couple minutes, but I just wanted to drop a post here in case you wan...

"It is not the presidency that 'won.' Instead, it is the judiciary that lost."

John Yoo has a new piece about the new military commission law, which Bush signed on Tuesday: The new law is, above all, a stinging rebuke ...

Iraq talk: victory, appeasement, fear.

The NYT observes that President Bush's most recent Iraq speech used the word "victory" 12 times, a word he's avoided for ...

Time on Hillary.

Time has a huge article on Hillary Clinton and the hot news that she wants to be President. I thought this paragraph was interesting: [S]he ...

The Supreme Court turns Padilla away.

Gina Holland reports: "In light of the previous changes in his custody status and the fact that nearly four years have passed since he ...

"The institutional vanity and intellectual slovenliness of America's campus-based intelligentsia...."

So begins George Will's column on the Solomon Act case (Rumsfeld v. FAIR): On Monday Roberts's shredding of the law schools' ar...

What Gonzales will say about the surveillance program.

Today, Attorney General Gonzales will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Bush administration's surveillance progra...

"Welcome to the new age of impressionistic history."

Walter Isaacson, former managing editor of Time and chief executive of CNN, reviews James Risen's "State of War" for the NYT:...

"Some of the judges say is they feel they've participated in a Potemkin court."

A federal judge has resigned from his position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: [U.S. District Judge James] Robertson indica...