Many of Barack Obama's supporters have credited him with nearly-miraculous powers. Finally, I'm inclined to agree with them. It takes something pretty remarkable to infuse someone like me - a conservative woman with minimal sensitivity to "gender issues," who has opposed Hillary Clinton and her policies since 1992 - with...

Marty Kaplan, writing here, bemoans the inability of people of different viewpoints to communicate across what seems to him to be a vast chasm -- and mourns the elusiveness of "the notion that we can reason together, find common ground, reach consensus, built coalitions, forge compromises."

But one has...

Over at Real Clear Politics, Jed Babbin tells you everything you need to know about the subtext of the insanely hysterical coverage of Haditha. Most importantly, balanced and responsible voices must explain that the silence from the Marines, Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Administration isn't an admission...

It's not even a fair fight. On his radio show, Hugh Hewitt is playing clips of Joe Biden. This morning, as you'll recall, Biden noted that he "didn't even like Princeton" -- that "all kidding aside, I wasn't a big Princeton fan." Well, apparently he was singing a very...

At risk of ruining all the Abramoff lip-smacking glee at this site, it does bear noting that the Abramoff scandal may be a little more bipartisan than some on the left would like to believe.

Check out this document. Yes, it's from the NRSC, but it's accurate, by all...

Today, the Washington Post editorializes against the surveillance program that came to light last week.

As part of its piece, the Post writes:

The tools of foreign intelligence are not consistent with a democratic society. Americans interact with their own government through the enforcement of law. And in those...

So the New York Times (belatedly, and conveniently in the wake of the successful Iraqi elections) and the Democrats (predictably) and some grandstanding Republicans (shamefully) are denouncing the President's efforts to keep all of us safe. They're terribly upset that the President has reauthorized, around thirty times, the interception...

Sebastian Mallaby picks up the implicit elitism of Wal-Mart's opponents, pointing out that poor Americans will suffer if Wal-Mart is prevented from expanding. He's dead right (and I made many of the same arguments here). Of course, it't not just elitism that spurs anti Wal-Mart animus; a lot...

The MSM may not get it, the leftist crazoids may not get it. But the American people . . . get it.

According to the Washington Post's account of the bipartisan RT Strategies poll, "Seventy percent of people surveyed said that criticism of the war by Democratic senators hurts...

Michael Barone is a columnist for US News & World Report -- and one of the most respected political analysts working today.

His column today, called "The (Very) Big Lie" and focusing on Democrat charges that President Bush deliberately manipulated intelligence, is well worth reading. Yes, of course, it...

Having lied for months, if not years, about the President and the way the war in Iraq began, Democrats are now outraged -- outraged! -- that the Republicans actually forced them to do what elected representatives are supposed to do, i.e. vote on whether the USA should withdraw from...

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt has extended the following invitation to Rob Reiner:

"Mr. Reiner, you have an open invitation to co-host with me for a full week. Or a day. Or an hour."

Why do I suspect that Rob Reiner won't be willing to accept...

As this piece by Norman Podhoretz points out, the answer is crystal clear: The Democrats are.

Here's a brief excerpt from the piece::

[T]he consensus on which Bush relied [in stating that Iraq had WMD] was not born in his own administration. In fact, it was first fully...

Over at Powerline, Scott Johnson has some important questions for the CIA about Joe Wilson:

(1) Why wasn't Wilson's February 2002 trip to Niger made subject to a confidentiality agreement?

That's how Senator John McCain has described the CIA -- and about this, at least, he seems to be right.

As Deborah Orin points out in today's New York Post:

Having [Joe] Wilson go public was very useful to the CIA, especially the division where his wife worked —...

Here, the NY Times once again serves as a handy talking points memo for the left wing, asserting that the Bush Administration relied on the claims of an Al Qaeda who was designated as a "likely fabricator" to support its claims that Iraqis were training Al Qaeda in the...

So, according to this L.A. Times piece, U.S. Senate supporters of "an explicit ban on torture" of prisoners of war intend to keep inserting the language into legislation until it finally passes.

The key here is the word "explicit." Doubtless the overwhelming majority of Americans -- like me --...

For a long time, most Democratic war cries have been based on lies: "Republicans hate minorities." "Republicans hate poor people." "Republicans hate women." "It was just about sex." And the list goes on.

As pernicious as those charges are, they're nothing to the newest lie: That somehow, the Bush administration...

No doubt everyone at The White House is more moved than words can possibly express by the concern for their well-being that led Trent Lott to advise that, perhaps, Karl Rove should be fired.

The fact is that Lott has had it in for The White House ever since...