Real or political theater?

About that Bulgarian gun-pointing, gun-jamming incident ... I'm feeling truther-y. How about you?

Subliminality.

Here 's something the Obama campaign did in an ad — displaying the word "felons" for 6 seconds on a graph labeled "Romney...

"Friends, Romans, countrymen..."

This amused me. Cowboy style. I ran across it because I was looking for the text to the famous Mark Antony speech, which I'd been forc...

"John Wilkes Booth Bobbleheads Pulled From Gettysburg Giftshop."

"The $20 dolls come in boxes depicting the inside of Washington D.C.’s Ford's Theatre, where confederate sympathizer Booth shot and...

"I have these other aspects of my life that no one knows about. I’m an artist. I’m a musician."

"Nobody knows that... They just see me at the guy who tried to kill Reagan.” In the wake of last year’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giff...

Running out of targets...

... in the assassinate-an-al-Qaeda-leader game.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez.

Charged with attempting to assassinate the President of the United States.

The Jackie Tapes: LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

She spoke with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. shortly after the assassination on tape recordings that Caroline Kennedy has decided to rel...

At the Wisconsin State Fair: A man shouts "sic semper tyrannis" at Governor Scott Walker.

Captured by the MacIver News Service: Back in February, I caught that phrase on a protester's sign :

"Norman Redlich, Ex-Dean of N.Y.U. Law School, Dies at 85."

The NYT reports. Redlich was the Dean of the law school when I was a student there, and he was my teacher in Conlaw2 (a course I now teach)...

Noam Chomsky: "It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law."

"There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtu...

"Have the Ivy League charlatans drop back to the follow-up car. We've got an election coming up. The whole point is for me to be accessible to the people."

Former Secret Service agent Jerry Blaine remembers what JFK said to him just days before the assassination: Photos of the motorcade show, re...

Yes, yes, I know there was that eye-catching "head stomping" to talk about yesterday...

... but that just highlights the lack of anything serious in the political news this week. Yes, yes, I know that liberals would like to pur...

What will Hillary Clinton put us through for that 5% chance she has of winning the nomination?

David Brooks writes: For another three months, we’ll have the Carvilles likening the Obamaites to Judas and former generals accusing Clinton...

Notice anything terribly wrong with Hillary Clinton's answer to Wolf Blitzer's question?

"I really regret that anybody would try to politicize this tragedy. I personally knew Benazir Bhutto..." Huh? The question wasn...

Bloggingheads! The Forgotten Carrots Edition!

It's me and Stephen Kaus. Topics: Covering the Bhutto assassination: NBC drops the ball (08:47) Would a second Clinton presidency offend...

"We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen."

Al Qaeda claims credit for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. ADDED: "It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed ...

"Pat Robertson can say anything he wants about anybody. He has advocated the assassination of Hugo Chavez..."

"... and called for the city of Orlando to be destroyed by meteors and tornadoes. But when Adam Key makes a comment, he gets kicked out...

Among the Federalists.

"We thought we had planted a wildflower in the weeds of academic liberalism. Instead it was an oak, " said Antonin Scalia last ni...

At the LBJ Library.

At the LBJ Library , the floors of archives are on beautiful, grand display: And there are three floors of exhibits, which pull you through ...