"Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden, America did."

"The work that the American military has done killed Osama bin Laden. You did not." IN THE COMMENTS: Dennis Howell said: I sincere...

Sullyboating, Swiftboating, sandals, sticks, stickage, and strawberries.

Sullyboating. It's not Swiftboating. Let's see if I get Sullivan's argument - McCain's memory of a cross in the dirt is not ...

Jerome R. Corsi's #1 bestseller "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality."

Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman discuss the book and interview the author, who also wrote "Unfit for Command" (the notorious ...

Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd get around to the subject of the Clinton-Obama debate.

It must be hard to think of new things to say, when everyone's been talking about the debate for days. You could talk about what people ...

527s!

"Bitter attacks" : "John yesterday said that he didn't believe in 527s," [said Barack Obama]... “I do not support 52...

Is Kerry obsolete yet?

Anything anyone makes says something about the person who made it , I said in the previous post. And that includes John Kerry's dreadful...

"They are not Swift boating us on security."

Says Nancy Pelosi , implying that the disparagement of Democrats on national security is just some underhanded trick. Note the second bird k...

"More wicked than your average blogger"?

A squib about Al Franken's new book in the NYT Book Review: "The Truth (With Jokes)," by Al Franken, [is] a gloomier, more as...

"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...

"Stolen Honor" -- "this ... deeply sad film."

NYT TV critic Alessandra Staley takes a surprisingly positive approach to "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," the controversi...

The "Bush volunteered for Vietnam" story.

The Columnist Manifesto has decided that new reports that Bush volunteered to go to Vietnam do not require that he reconsider his take on B...

Those wealthy ideologues, that crazy campaign finance reform.

The NYT examines how the McCain-Feingold law has successfully changed the ways of corporations and labor unions, who used to seek political...

Kerry's final mistake.

Here's what I'd like to read about the 2004 election: an analysis of what happened written ten years from now. Anything written toda...

A bride and a bridal gown.

The NYT runs a long piece about John Kerry's early political years. I was interested in the material about his first wife, of whom we...

"George took a hatchet to the film."

What are we to think about "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," a documentary film directed by an old friend of John Kerry...

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...

Kerry submits to an interview!

John Kerry's long avoidance of interviews had gotten to be awfully conspicuous, and he finally submits. Time's Karen Tumulty receive...

Finally getting around to TiVo-blogging last night's convention.

I wasn't really properly simulblogging the Convention last night, and I'm told that I had my priorities straight . Yikes! Going over...

Two categories of Vietnam draft avoiders.

Did you know that those who found ways to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War ought to be put in two categories? There is one category, w...

Two observations about Kerry's 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Last night, like many people, I watched the C-Span presentation of Kerry's 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I ...