Mitt Romney has been known to change his mind, but on the subject of his tax returns he's been isentropically consistent. Here's his position:

What's the least, the absolute least, I can show you so you'll shut up?

In December he said he might not release anything. Two weeks ago...

The trouble with the truth is it's always the same old thing. ~ Patty Loveless

Republican primary voters hate Freddie Mac. They believe it gave their money -- and forced the banks to give their money -- to lazy people so they could live indoors. This is a questionable suspicion....

"I'll tell you what. Ten-thousand bucks? Ten-thousand-dollar bet?" -- Mitt Romney

A lot of people are raising a stink about Mitt Romney making $10,000 schoolyard bets while running for president in a nation where the child poverty rate is 19.8%.

They're scoring cheap points by pretending that Mitt Romney...

California congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon is the next chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He doesn't have any military experience -- he spent the Vietnam era on a Mormon missionary retreat and a twenty-nine year quest (1956-1985) for a BA from Brigham Young -- but he did bankrupt his...

L. Brent Bozell is a cheap has-been who died years ago, but that doesn't mean his work-from-home pressure group, The Parents Television Council, can't still come up with the occasional hot title for a press release. Take, for example, this week's shocking study -- more than 35 hours in the...

"Today marks a lot of tragedy... Tragedy comes in threes. Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards' passing and Barack Obama's announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits."
-- Christine O'Donnell

"There's more to being smart than noticing how some shit is like...

Like brewing your own beer, satire is tricky, time consuming, and not as rewarding as you might expect. Humor is a lousy weapon, and anyone who thinks different is in for a life of one humiliating loss after another. When people talk about humor as a weapon it always makes...

If you're still getting used to Sarah Palin, the macroeconomist -- her 700-word Facebook note on quantitative easing cited Paul Krugman, former CBO director Alice Rivlin and World Bank President Robert Zoellick -- then you're probably not ready for Sarah Palin, cinéaste.

Little did you know.

In the new...

Here's the good news: Meg Whitman will not be governor of California. That might not seem like much, compared to all the bad news, about Congress, and Senator Rand Paul, but it's something. And maybe even more than something.

Maybe it's very good news.

Meg Whitman will not be...

If you didn't catch Christine O'Donnell on "Hannity" this week -- in what she says is her last interview with the national media -- you missed this:

"My faith has matured and as a U.S. Senate candidate my promise to the people of Delaware is that it is the Constitution...

I like Christine O'Donnell. I think she's a goof and a good sport, and it would be funny if she became a United States Senator. She's got a smile that could light up an abortion clinic bombing. Plus she needs a job.

But I wish the Tea Party Express hadn't...

The man promoting Saturday's Glenn Beck / Sarah Palin event in Anchorage says it has nothing to do with sucking blood from the World Trade Center dead.

(Christopher) Cox said the date of the event is a coincidence. Cox originally was eyeing Sept. 4, but did not want...

Last night, Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski conceded something that had been obvious for a week: She won't be her party's nominee this fall. She lost her primary for being insufficiently anti-abortion. (Here's what that means for a Republican in Alaska: She and her opponent both endorsed a parental notification ballot...

I.F. Stone said freedom of religion means they can park in front of your house but you can't park in front of theirs. That was half a century ago, and the struggle between faith and urban planning hasn't gotten any more compelling since then, even with a Terror Mosque going...

This morning, Meg Whitman proudly announced an endorsement from the California Peace Officers' Association.

It must be a pretty big deal. Because she also proudly announced their endorsement last March.

Things must be awfully slow around the Meg 2010 campaign.

If you haven't heard...

"What typeface do you want?"

"Oh, I don't care, whatever you've got, as long as it doesn't say comedy, or anything else about the movie."

"Done. And the images?"

"Again, don't care. This thing's a dead loss. You got any pictures of Jennifer...

Does Meg Whitman support Arizona's new immigration law or not? Today we found out your guess is as good as hers.

Her campaign has spent millions of dollars in the last month on Spanish-language ads that say she doesn't, but this morning she said she does.

Here's one of...

The problem with the JournoList scandal is the problem with a lot of right wing news: It's not happening on Earth I, where you and I live. Like the Black Panthers taking over the Justice Department, or Shirley Sherrod's night raids on Andrew Breitbart's small family farm or Glenn Beck's...

What the hell is my problem?

I was trying to retract an ill-considered and imprecise aspersion I made about Meg Whitman's plan to cut her taxes and I just made it worse.

Yes, Meg Whitman wants to eliminate California's capital gains tax, even though the state is $20 billion in...

I screwed up.

The other day I was writing about Meg Whitman -- who's running for governor because she refuses refuses refuses to let California fail -- and how her plans include a tax cut for the super rich that could cost the state between four and six billion...