After reading the brisk back and forth in the comments on one of our letters to the editor this morning, I've been thinking a lot about what criteria we should use to determine whether to call the Forth Hood shooter...
Every week, we poll the members of the editorial board on a timely and divisive topic. This week, the question is: What are the lessons of yesterday's elections, particularly in regard to the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia...
Every week, we poll the members of the editorial board on a timely and divisive topic. This week, the topic is the gubernatorial race. Only days after Kay Bailey Hutchison announced her intentions to run for governor, the race for...
Quoth the always comical Republican from Minnesota to Pajamas Media: "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's editorial board is making waves as it reinvents itself -- new editorial page editor, a new editorial board that will count the editor (Julia Wallace) as a member, new goals, etc. I'm not much interested in the...
Meghan McCain has been making some waves with her columns for The Daily Beast. The most recent you've probably already read about: McCain opined about the Ann Coulters of the Republican Party making it difficult to win over new members....
I get where Sen. Grassley was going with his suggestion that AIG execs should kill themselves. He's trying to point out that these highly placed businessmen who ruined so many lives with their irresponsible actions should be deeply ashamed of...
No, says the narrow-bottomed conservative radio talker Laura Ingraham, at least when it comes to Meghan "Daughter of John" McCain. I don't have any opinion one way or another on Megan McCain's political judgment, but I sure did like her...
Look, I'm as outraged as anybody at AIG's bonuses, but I'm more angered by what was revealed by AIG today: the beneficiaries of its bailout cash. Billions and billions of taxpayer dollars went to pay off investment banks -- Goldman,...
Today, President Obama reversed President Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. I think he was wrong to do so, that ESCR is gravely immoral. But this is a reminder that elections have consequences. What cheeses me...
New Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele seems to have his hands full today, explaining his weekend remarks that Rush Limbaugh is an "entertainer" whose show is "incendiary" and "ugly." Here's the full report from Politico. Today the Steele team...
America's favorite statistician, Nate Silver, made a name for himself in the 2008 elections with his must-read blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. Now that the elections are over, he's keeping his name in the news. His latest effort is handicapping the Oscars. I...
Tod, I think it was, said the other day on the blog that the economic crisis is the fault of the Bushies. I think this is only a half-truth, and it's important to recognize that -- not for political reasons,...
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Yet another of President Obama's nominees has a tax problem. Today's Senate committee meeting about Hilda Solis -- the president's pick for labor secretary -- has suddenly been abandoned amid reports that...
Gotta say I respect Barack Obama for going on TV this week, after the Daschle nomination collapses, and saying, "I screwed up." I think it shows him to be strong and confident. Two recent presidents who were not so confident...
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