Should Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) resign? I’m sure you’ve all heard by now how he was arrested awhile back in an airport bathroom in Minneapolis for soliciting sex from an undercover cop, how he plead guilty to a “lesser charge” without consulting his staff, his family, or his lawyer, and how he now wants [...]

John Edwards Hates SUV’s!  Presidential candidate tells Americans they need to give them up!  Or at least that’s the story making its way around conservative media this afternoon.  (Including Fox News and Tucker Carlson, not to mention the blogs).
Of course that’s not quite what happened.  To quote the Fox News article:
“I think Americans are actually [...]

Great op-ed this weekend by Thomas Friedman. If you don’t have NY Times Select access, here’s an excerpt:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned. It’s about time.
Now, many people with my general political leanings are going to attack Gonzales for his record as attorney general. And, to be fair, that record isn’t a particularly auspicious one. He oversaw the politicization of the hiring and firing of civil servants. He [...]

In a speech yesterday, President Bush compared Iraq to Vietnam in order to warn us about the dangers of a premature withdrawal from an unstable state.  He’s not the first conservative to draw that comparison, and i can guarantee you that he won’t be the last.  Of course, the history behind the analogy is atrocious.  [...]

Obama has been talking a lot about foreign policy lately.  In early August, there was the trio of statements which got him in a lot of trouble, but which I actually appreciated:

We won’t use nuclear weapons in the war on terror (you don’t use nukes to win a PR war)
We will sit down and talk [...]

In June, the buzz among political pundits was how Fred Thompson was poised to become the “true conservative” candidate in the field. Thompson makes for an oddly intriguing candidate (which says something about how weak the GOP field is), but he has yet to actually enter the race or galvanize social conservatives around his [...]

I encourage you to take a look at this series of articles being published in Foreign Affairs. In a nut shell, the journal asked each of the “top” presidential candidates to write an essay outlining their foreign policy goals and strategies if they are elected president. So far, four candidates have responded: Obama, [...]

Hey Mike,
I enrolled you in a special program as a present. Let me know how well it works.
Just kidding. Even if the site’s owners brag more than they ought about their abilities, it’s a sad reminder that no technology can get around simple human corruption and slander.
(h/t: The Point)

The Bush Administration has reportedly decided to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps–a significant portion of the Iranian military–as a terrorist group. (In case you were curious, by the way, the announcement comes as a result of Executive Order 13224, under authority from the International Emergency Executive Powers Act.) Supposedly this will allow [...]