This Sunday, I couldn't help but notice that a bit of a long con was being set up in advance of Senator Barack Obama's trip to Iraq. Obama has recent...
Back when Wesley Clark was running for President, it wasn't often that the press was found hanging on his every word. But say one cutting (and true!)...
The Democratic primary battle is over, but nominee Barack Obama still has to undertake the awesome task of making nice with the Clinton family. That ...
As the media fanned flames in the direction of General Wesley Clark for the egregious offense of noting that being a prisoner of war did not necessari...
John McCain is lighting out for Latin America, because maybe they have some electoral votes or something! And he wants everyone to know that he is in...
I had to chuckle to myself when I read David Brooks' lede this morning: Barack Obama sells the Democratic Party short. He talks about his fund-raisin...
Earlier today, Jonathan Martin of The Politico noted that John McCain was prominently featuring a picture of he and President George W. Bush standing ...
Even with all the Iraq War criticism out there, it is rare to find a writer who manages to get it as right as Andrew J. Bacevich does in today's Bosto...
Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't full...
Joe Stephens' article in today's Washington Post broadly insinuates wrongdoing on the part of Obama, and not only fails to make its case -- it mendaciously avoids even mounting a case in the first place.
Via Portfolio comes word of a print-media snafu reminiscent of last January's Parade cover story that was ten days off on the news of Benazir Bhutto's...
Most of the political media is still knee-deep in speculation over who will eventually be identified as the vice-presidential contenders for the 2008 ...
So Karl Rove has got an op-ed up at the Wall Street Journal titled "Can Barack Buy The Presidency." What does this mean to HuffPo readers? Stay indo...
Hi there. Earlier today, National Editor Nico Pitney and I went outside our Washington, DC offices for a special announcement: There will be vlogs! ...
Happy Independence Day and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog, almost none of which will actually be live, thanks to some annoying technical prob...
Joe Lieberman made an appearance on Sunday's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, to take up the mind-bending task of falsely asserting that Senator ...
Have I been giving Ted Koppel too much credit all my life? Because whoever showed up wearing his skin today on This Week with George Stephanopulos be...
Have you been wondering what George W. Bush might, or should do, with his life after he leaves office to the sounds of the human race rejoicing? You'...
Robert Gibbs, communications director for the Obama campaign, appeared on today's Morning Joe and ended up having to take questions on that whole Obam...
Obama states that he is willing to "take his lumps" from his supporters on the FISA issue, but one wonders: why take lumps at all?
Congress' wrangling over the coming FISA legislation has left critics of the administration's warrantless wiretapping operation to wonder if the telec...
John McCain's newest ad is called, "Love," which he hates, apparently. See, way back in the day, a bunch of hippies dropped acid and made out, while ...
John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, howeve...
[UPDATED, below.] Don't look now, national political media, but it looks like Senator John McCain is about to flip-flop "refine his position" on Iraq...
Throughout his lengthy career, Jesse Helms did the Republican Party no favors. A shambling, verminous bag of bigotry, Helms' presence at the forefron...
