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FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO HAVE EXPERIENCED PAUL TSONGAS-MANIA A lot of the reaction has been snarky, but I actually think a third-pa...

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT ISN'T DUE Over the years I've sensed the Hand of Rove in a number of events he probably had little or nothing t...

NO EXCITEMENT, PLEASE, WE'RE CLINTONS I find this Robert Novak item rather plausible: Clinton backers see Warner -- not Obama -- as be...

THRILL-SEEKING RISK-AVOIDERS In The New York Times, Charles McGrath reveals a secret truth about The Dangerous Book for Boys, the runawa...

DON'T MEASURE THE DRAPES YET Frank Rich in today's New York Times : ...Bush dead-enders are in a serious state of denial. Just how ...

GIULIANI'S TEFLON One of yesterday's big stories was a report in The New York Times that Rudy Giuliani spent a hell of a lot less ...

MISTY WATERCOLOR MEMORIES OF THE WAY WE WERE Victor Davis Hanson at National Review Online: ... it is hard to recall of any war in our his...

LATE FOR THE SUNRISE, THE ROOSTER GETS CREDIT ANYWAY A lot of people are addressing the main points in Michael Gerson's Washington Pos...

PEGGY NOONAN BLAMES AMERICA FOR THE NEXT 9/11 Peggy Noonan has been reading the NYPD's report "Radicalization in the West: The Ho...

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IS UNKILLABLE Jennifer Rubin, in a New York Observer article entitled "What the G.O.P. Hopefuls Need From Bush...

THE EVER-POPULAR TWO-LEGGED STOOL It's just like good news, except for the missing good-news part: The Iraqi prime minister and presid...

AND I MAY HAVE OVERLOOKED A BRIEF SAT-PHONE EXCHANGE WITH THE PENNYSAVER A lot of you have already seen this by now: Senior congressional ...

POUNDING ON DEMOCRATS, WITH PINKY EXTENDED Rush Limbaugh interviewed Karl Rove yesterday. Mostly it's what you'd expect (Karl and...

EVERYBODY SKATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE! Did some kind of memo go out to Republicans in the past 48 hours -- a memo telling them it's now time...

Once again an armed society, astonishingly, turns out not be a polite society: MEXICO CITY -- Authorities are sounding the alarm about an i...

HUCKABEE: THE CLASS WARFARE CANDIDATE? Last week, Tom posted a denunciation of economic inequality and CEO greed from Mike Huckabee, and ...

APOCALYPSE NOW If you don't believe the Bushies will really bomb Iran sometime before W heads to Crawford, read this. And if you don...

KNUCKLE-DRAGGING SEXUAL POLITICS FROM RUPERT MURDOCH Headline for a current AP story in Newsday : Elizabeth Edwards Assails Obama, Clinton ...

WHY DO THEY LIKE HIM? I just finished "Mayberry Man," Peter Boyer's article on Rudolph Giuliani in this week's New Yor...

Here's a follow-up to Kathy's post from Saturday about Southwestern Baptist Seminary, which is introducing a degree program in home...