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Cheney campaigns: Signs held aloft by children and inscribed "Cheney Rocks" and "Too Cool" were featured in an MTV-...

SHORTER DAVID BROOKS Two rich, preppy Ivy League elitists are running for President by claiming to have Middle American values. Let me...

HILLARY What the hell was that all about this week? Were they trying to keep her off the convention speakers' list because she’s a...

MARTHA I never had particularly negative feelings about her, but I never quite understood those who worshiped her. The only theory I h...

FIVE GEARS IN REVERSE Remember last summer, when the (post-)war was going badly and Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld were making (...

Draft Ehrenreich? No -- draft Thomas Frank. This New York Times op-ed column by Frank is just terrific -- urgent, angry, funny, and wit...

Ditka Out; Nugent In? Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka will not run for the U.S. Senate.... Republican sources say that the Repu...

Certainly lately, since the transfer of sovereignty, things seem to be looking up.... -- Peggy Noonan on Iraq, column posted Thursday,...

BOOGA BOOGA! Here's the headline of a story by Bill Gertz in today's Washington Times : British report links al Qaeda, Bagh...

Shouldn't the Republican National Committee repudiate T-shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers -- produced by a company called AuthenticG...

Turkish Foreign Minister Gul Denies Claims CIA Has Torture Center In Turkey Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul denied on Wednesday ...

OK -- Ditka's not running for Senate, possibly because he was pissed off that the press showed up at a meeting he was going to attend ...

The problem with calling Bush a liar isn't, as Nicholas Kristof would argue, that it coarsens the debate. The problem with calling Bush ...

I'm facing some nasty work deadlines. Apologies for the relatively light blogging.

From "Noted Now" at ABC News: House Speaker Dennis Hastert and several top Republicans, including state house GOP leader Tom ...

So I see from yesterday's paper that everything we know about Zarqawi is wrong: ...Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has described...

Via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, we learn about this study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The study finds that me...

Flashback: Ditka fined $20,000 for unsaintly gestures to fans Tuesday, October 19, 1999 New Orleans Saints coach Mike Ditka was ...

Yesterday's line of the day from the Bush administration was "LOOK OVER HERE! BIG SCARY LIBYAN NUKES WE SAVED YOU FROM!" Rath...

Did you blink? Well, you might have missed the Bush boom: Retail sales slowed in June. Auto purchases declined. Several technology com...