What does it mean? Does it signal a tidal wave for Republicans? Possibly. But that’s the shallow view. The truth is a bit deeper. In 2006 and 2008, Republicans lost in a large part because they’d lost touch with the American people. This led to...

Happy anniversary, Mr. President. One year ago today, you took the Oath of Office. It’s been a harder first year than you could’ve possibly imagined. The economy’s still in the tank. Everyone hates your health care plan. Your “green...

The whole country is buzzing about the historic victory of Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) in Massachusetts last night. Some people are already thinking about getting him to run for President in 2012. He’s run a great campaign, is fantastic with...

For the last 24 hours or so, I’ve been increasingly thinking about the movie The American President. Some of my right-wing friends loathe this movie for all the left-wing politics in it. Yes, that’s in there, but that’s not what the movie is...

You know who you are. You have written things like this in the last few days: This excerpt of excerpts demonstrates my point about e-mail conversations being "out of context" even when messages are quoted in full. People writing to colleagues about...