With the Oscars coming up on Sunday, I thought it would be a good time to salute -- and mashup -- some of the year's noteworthy achievements in the worlds of politics and entertainment... which, these days, aren't always easy to tell apart. Best Sex Scene: Kate Winslet and David Kross in The Reader; Worst: Eliot Spitzer and Ashley Dupré in Client #9. Best Mega-Buck Action Fantasy: Iron Man; Worst: Self-Regulation on Wall Street. Best Sequel: The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's brooding follow up to Batman Begins; Worst: TARP II, Tim Geithner's vague follow up to Hank Paulson's Bailout Begins. To read the rest -- and suggest your own -- click here.
I am a proud conservative. And judging from the last eight years, I am one of the few left in Washington. But that doesn't mean I don't love listening to and learning from those with whom I disagree.
Instead of pinpointing culpability among the key players, Time deflects blame away from Republicans and falsely implicates Democrats, to create a muddleheaded "plenty-of-blame-to-go-around" narrative.
From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world.
This wasn't a meeting between two world leaders; it was more like a meeting between a CEO and a branch-plant manager.
There's nothing like a Bill Maher sneer to puncture the pieties and moral certainty of the deeply religious. I spoke with him about religion, its followers and the release of the Religulous DVD.
Evidence indicates that the contract for 28 Marine One helicopters to an Italian firm was a payoff to the Italian government for supplying the forged documents showing Saddam had obtained weapons grade uranium from Niger.
Dr. Joseph Schumpeter will never be the subject of a Hollywood-style biopic, but his ideas on the rise and fall of industries form the basis for the script the media business finds itself following today.
We are tremendously excited to announce that the theme for the 81st Academy Awards is "Less Is More." In keeping with this so topical theme we will institute the following changes.
As Clinton heads to China with the beginning of a climate agenda in tow, many are wondering how the world's biggest environmental stalemate can become its biggest opportunity.
Perhaps the way out of this madness for the Muslim community is to look back at the life of Prophet Muhammad and remember his true legacy as a visionary champion of women's rights.
A funny thing happened as I was watching President Obama's press conference with Prime Minister Harper in Ottawa: I did not cringe with embarrassment.
When it comes to the exclusive club of presidential losers, John McCain, it turns out, is quite the maverick. Not since Ralph Nader has someone so willfully dismantled his reputation and legacy.
We also have actual places to go and things to see that will make your heart go pitter-patter and even echo this year's Best Picture nominees.
There is a straight line from the great political escape of Ronald Reagan to the wanton and largely unchallenged lawbreaking at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue under G.W. Bush.
Obama and his advisors made a critical miscalculation by allowing the political goal of bipartisanship to trump urgent economic necessity and the need for a new economic philosophy.
Never has Beltway orthodoxy looked as clueless and futile as it does today.
I'm calling upon Hannity to use his prime time television program as a platform to rally his base to refuse delivery of not just recovery bill spending, but all so-called "socialist" government programs.
