Month: February 2010

Compare Sarah Palin’s rhetoric to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace’s rhetoric. Palin: “Voters are sending a message.” Wallace: “Send them a message!” Palin: “The soul of...

I usually think Andy McCarthy is the dimmest bulb at the Weekly Standard, which is an accomplishment of sorts. But his little missive this morning is mostly accurate in the larger sense, even if it is wrong in many particulars....

In his Saturday radio address the president continued his execution of a point by point plan for passing health care reform. Pointing to the Olympics, he congratulated American medal winners and their ability to bring the nation...

A long awaited examination of possible ethics violations by the authors of the Bush administration’s torture memos was finally released late last week.  As has seemed typical on this topic, the official document...