I am still trying to digest what everyone agrees was an important speech by Rush Limbaugh to CPAC attendees on Saturday. It was, perhaps, the most entertaining political speech I’ve ever heard....

The Blago Blow-Up is beginning to churn like the contents of one’s stomach following a helping of bad escargot. You begin to realize you just ate a heaping, steaming plate of snail flesh and...

Finally, Nouri al-Maliki – a guy I’ve been calling an empty suit for years – seems to have grown a pair and is standing up for the Iraqi people against the Americans. The Iraqis want our combat forces to leave...

The debate last night was not a blowout but frankly, McCain never came close. He made a couple of good points about education, scored best with his pointed questions (that Obama never answered) about Ayers and ACORN, and had a couple of other nice...

Want to piss off the left? Everybody watch every single episode of the new ABC mini-series “V.” Drive the ratings through the roof. Make the show the hottest cultural happening since Seinfeld. Copy the hairstyles. Ape the fashion. Start bidding up the...

I’m a little bemused this morning reading lefty blogs who are chortling over Doug Hoffman’s defeat last night. Isn’t that sort of like someone who’s been thrown in a sh*t pile and accidentally discovering a brass ring? It isn’t just the raw results...

There is no way to adequately explain how royally delicious the irony that can be found in this post by Jon Walker at Firedoglake. To those of us on both sides who look in askance at the excessively ideological fringes of both right and left, the echo...

I don’t know why it’s taken me five years to realize something of paramount importance to understand if one wishes to make a living as a writer. I am not the brightest bulb in the room, but I still should have grasped this concept long ago; the...

What is it that possesses certain conservatives to fool themselves so spectacularly into believing that they can create a majority out of a minority? That kind of alchemy hasn’t been seen since Nostradamus tried to turn lead into gold. In the case of...