"In all these cases, and many others, liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good..."

"... and show very little interest in the actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake....

Hope and change... into a clown costume.

Paul Krugman responds to the pushback he's received on "the trillion-dollar-coin thing": There seem to be two kinds of objecti...

Boehner: "At one point several weeks ago... the president said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.' "

"They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system." Boehner's repeated response to that was: "Clearly we have ...

Obama seems amenable to the NRA idea of armed guards in schools.

On today's "Meet the Press" : David Gregory asked him what he thought of having "armed guards at every school in the coun...

David Gregory, neatly tweaked...

... by Drudge (in Christmas colors): The links are: "Did David Gregory Violate DC Gun Law On National TV?" and "Mocks NRA C...

Want to hear Bob Costas scold America about our terrible, terrible guns?

Here's the video from last night's NBC football broadcast.  Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomabl...

Chris Christie on "Saturday Night Live."

Last night: He does a nice job with the comedy — even with this eyes locked tellingly on the teleprompter. And here's something that sur...

"1,583 COMMENTS."

Hey! Thanks for all the comments on last night's election live-blog , from which I absented myself after a post at 8:04, noting the obvi...

"The disappointment that all Americans may be harboring over the Obama term is nothing compared with the garland-wrenching grief in Europe."

"It’s not the disappointment; it’s the hope we can’t bear." Garland-wrenching? I don't know. It's an op-ed in the NYT by o...

The AP reports an increase in racial prejudice since 2008 (based on research that is at least somewhat scientific).

"Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 whether those feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked responde...

Why Biden acted the way he did at the VP debate.

Something just came into focus for me this morning. You know that I didn't think Obama was that bad in the first debate and that I watch...

Take this patriotism test.

First, watch this ad: Now, here's the question: At what point did you get chills? Within 4 seconds -- the sight of the flag. At 7 second...

"If Romney wins, perhaps this will be another piece of evidence for..."

"... Lee Sigelman’s classic work, 'Toward a Stupidity-Ugliness Theory of Democratic Electoral Debacles.'"

Morning-after thoughts about the first night of the GOP convention.

Why didn't I live-blog the GOP convention last night? I'd thought I would, and I think I live-blogged every day of both parties'...

Sandra Fluke campaigns alongside Barack Obama.

In Denver. Presumably, she'll be saying what she's writing in HuffPo today. (She's no longer identified as a law student, but i...

"Curiosity Rover Could Spark Mars Space Race."

Really? Everyone from President Obama to Bill Nye to scientists involved with the project lauded Monday's achievement, the most expensiv...

How does the Romney ad using video of her make Hillary Clinton feel?

Always with the feelings . Hillary Clinton — though being a woman — chooses not to talk about feelings. She goes straight for the spin: ...

"Be afraid. Be very afraid."

I ended the previous post with that old sci-fi movie tag line. I think what is going on right now is an effort to create a mindset, and emo...

"It was Romney’s Star Trek moment. They were always talking about entities on Star Trek, and entities were very seldom good news."

Bizarre paragraph in a NYT op-ed column by Gail Collins . Why did she write that? It follows this: Romney gave five network television inter...

"Money the government is spending on old people means young people are free not to take care of them."

A response to the argument that young Americans should support vigorous spending cuts because so much more is spent on old people than on yo...