How stupid is it for Obama supporters to question the truth of McCain's "cross in the dirt" story?

Very stupid. Checking out the story, Byron York called Mark Salter, who worked with McCain on his book "Faith of Our Fathers." Sa...

"People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with."

Christopher Hitchens rails about "identity politics": Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show...

How were Bill and Hillary Clinton different — as law professors?

I've been reading Carl Bernstein's book "A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton," and this comparison of t...

Gerald Ford re Bill Clinton: "He's sick — he's got an addiction. He needs treatment."

From "Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford": Ford's wife, Betty, who founde...

What I really think about the Clarence Thomas book.

I've now finished the Clarence Thomas memoir "My Grandfather's Son," which I've been sort of live-blogging. You can li...

"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...

"The biggest question is how far can Democrats go in opposing this president?"

Adam Nagourney assesses the Democrats in Congress: “Democrats have an advantage because you are looking at a 33 percent president,” said Ric...

"In the end, voters will decide what's off-limits, but I can't imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction."

Laying the groundwork for the argument that anyone who brings up the Clinton impeachment now is not playing fair. Paradoxically, it was the...

"Her clock ticks, her life ebbs. Where is the man for her?"

That's the line that amused me the most in Richard Cohen's WaPo column pouring out sympathy for Monica Lewinsky: Where is the guy b...

"A 'bill of particulars' against the Constitution."

Lawprof Sanford Levinson cites seven problems with the U.S. Constitution as a model for the rest of the world. 1. [The equal representation...

"She mimicked McGreevey in the act of trying to govern amid a miasma of male genitals."

That's a description of the funniest part of Margaret Cho's act here in Madison last night. The gag combined the two most prominent...

"I'd like to go back and do the impeachment again."

Says Henry Hyde , who prosecuted Clinton and has had time to reflect on what went wrong: "I was soft on the treatment we received from ...

McCain and Mrs. Clinton.

In a boozing contest! AND: Holy Mel, DUI. UPDATE: Here 's the NYT article that was referred to in that first link. Excerpt: Mrs. Clinton...

Oscar plunges into anti-Bush blogging.

I'm always bugging my colleague "Oscar Madison" to write some more political things. Like last week, when he did a nearly non-...

"Why don't they impeach the m*****f***** already?"

I need a new blog photo -- and just generally a photo to send to various places when they ask me for a photo. I enlisted a colleague of mine...

Rudy Giuliani picks the top 5 biographies of leaders.

How can you read this list and not think that he first decided which 5 leaders should be on his list and in what order and then came up wit...

"Obviously, from a party point of view we want to get in and do things, but I'm talking about the ideal political thing."

Adam Nagourney notes that winning Congress might not do the Democrats much good. [S]ome Democrats worry that the worst-case scenario may be...

"Window cleaner Ira Clemons put down his squeegee in the lobby of a city mall and stroked his goatee...."

Guess the topic of the MSM news article that begins its third paragraph thusly? It's: Do people want President Bush impeached? The goat...

When a judge writes a memoir.

Jeffrey Rosen writes about judicial memoirs, which are difficult to write, because they're either going to be bland -- like Justice O...

Howard Dean compares Iraq not just to Vietnam, but to Watergate.

Here . We've heard the stock comparison to Vietnam many times, of course, but why bring up Watergate -- except to let the world see that...