Byron York

Since today is Wal-Mart day at the Huffington Post, I might as well put in my two cents. I have just finished writing an article for National Review about Robert Greenwald's new movie (the article is not yet available online), and what I found bewildering about the picture was Greenwald's...

Karl Rove's reported behavior in the Plame/Cooper/Miller case? The New York Times strongly suggests that Matthew Cooper was protecting a single source in the grand jury investigation, and that the source was Rove, and that it was Rove who personally released Cooper from his pledge of confidentiality yesterday. In...

In your original post on the Plame/Cooper/Miller affair, you wrote that "Time magazine's emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury." So,...

There was a scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Michael Moore asked Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), "Um, how could Congress pass this Patriot Act without even reading it?" Conyers leaned across his desk and answered, "Sit down, my son. We don't read most of the bills..."

What Conyers meant, I think,...

Certainly Karl Rove's charge that "liberals" failed to grasp the true significance of the September 11 terrorist attacks was too broad. But in a significant part of his speech, Rove seemed to be directing his words specifically at MoveOn, and in that case, wasn't he right on the money? "In...

Does the New York Times have a policy against publishing verbatim quotes of outrageous statements by Democrats? This morning, the paper ran a small (176 word), unsigned item on page A-18 headlined, "Apology Demanded for Remark on U.S." It reported that Republicans are demanding that Sen. Richard Durbin apologize...

Enough about the bookies. [See previous posts in this argument here and here and here.] Your faith in the exit pollsters is greater than the exit pollsters' faith in themselves -- just take a look at head pollster Warren Mitofsky's apology/explanation [pdf] for his skewed results....

What if I wrote this:

At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, May 7, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and to see the odds as of that moment on the Kentucky Derby. Bellamy Road was a 5-to-2 favorite. You can look it up.

People...

I don't think anyone has mentioned that today is the fourth anniversary of President Bush's first set of nominations to the federal courts of appeals. There were eleven nominees in all, and some of their fates make you wonder about the sometimes bizarre nature of the confirmation process. For example,...

One story that's creating buzz in Washington but is little known anywhere else – the New York Times has not deigned to mention it – is the fight over the final report of independent counsel David Barrett. Barrett was appointed in 1995 to investigate charges that Clinton housing secretary Henry...