Maybe the midterm election defeat loosened Bush up. Whatever the reason, Bush was playing to the inside-the-Beltway set, and he actually got off a good joke.

[This article has been updated. See below.] It has been a while since I wrote about torture. I don't really have anything to add to the debate other...

My respect for Nancy Pelosi just continues to grow. She threw down a big, clanking iron gauntlet this weekend -- one that is going to send the right-wing blogosphere into apoplexy when they realize it.

With the media and the public focused on Iran, evidence of a much more sophisticated type of weapon being used successfully against U.S. troops in Iraq is largely being ignored.

The anti-escalation Iraq resolution passed the House today by a vote of 246 to 182. The attention now swings to the Senate.

Don Larsen was, by all reports, an excellent Army Chaplain. When he was a Pentecostal Christian, that is. His superior while he was in Iraq, Chaplai...