Louie Gohmert, a Republican representative from Texas, has a beef with the Supreme Court: its justices are deciding questions of law. Gohmert — not to be confused with Gomer (Pyle) or Homer (Simpson) — is unhappy with the court’s majority opinion that Guantanamo prisoners are entitled to the constitutionally guaranteed right of habeas corpus, allowing [...]

Barbara Ehernreich’s most recent blog post relates the suicide of a woman facing foreclosure on her home. Robert Reich’s penultimate post, before he becomes one of the 40% of Americans who can afford to take time off this summer, relates the yet to be fully realized suicide of the American economy.
Reich, the lone leftist/populist [...]

The Washington Post should have a special ethics rule for David Broder: he shouldn’t be allowed to meet anyone, ever, because he simply cannot write anything negative about anyone he has met who didn’t throw a punch at him. Today’s exemplar is the now-indicted senior senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens, who, according to Broder, was [...]

In a  blog at TNR last Friday, Eve Fairbanks intercepts a ball dropped by E. J. Graff at slate’s XX factor column, and runs with it. Her topic is the lamentable denouement of the candidate I myself championed, but it’s her capitulation to MSM binary-thinking wherein she betrays her (and by extension the whole [...]

The Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, which precipitated a wider conflict between Georgia and Russia, was a move so boneheadedly perverse that it almost certainly has roots in the Bush White House. The Georgians obviously believed that they had sufficient backing from the West, i.e., from the US and its allies in the EU and [...]

According to John McCain, he was visited by a mysterious Christian North Vietnamese prison guard twice in 1969 and “often” thereafter. The timeline of these visitations is interesting.
Starting in December 1967, McCain was held in a prison camp in northeast Hanoi that the prisoners referred to as “The Plantation.” In May of 1969, McCain [...]

Wesley Clark is held in almost idolatrous regard by a certain class of Democrats, who are now joining other classes — environmentalists, anti-militarists, secularists, civil libertarians and universal health care proponents among them — in a state of increasingly injured puzzlement over Barack Obama’s position on their issues.
The Clark class includes those Democrats who inwardly [...]