Hemingway said that the problem with Henry Miller was that he got laid in the afternoon once and thought he invented it. Governor Mark Sanford got laid in Argentina two weeks ago and the way he continues to go on about it, you'd think he cracked cold fusion. The man...

"Seems to me I'm getting all balled up in high politics."
-- James Bond, You Only Live Twice

The Republican National Committee produced a little gag video criticizing Nancy Pelosi for being a James Bond villainess. (Or something. It's getting harder and harder to discern...

Al Checchi spent forty million dollars of his own money running for governor of California. He didn't even get his party's nomination. Bill Simon lent himself ten million dollars to lose to Gray Davis. Let me type that again. To lose. To Gray Davis. Georges Marciano, one of the founders...

Meg Whitman won't be giving the commencement address at UCLA's Anderson School of Management next month. She was invited before she started expressing her complicated feelings about God hating gay people, and some gay people complained, and now it turns out she has "scheduling conflicts."

She's washing Mitt Romney's hair.

"Why did she risk the assault on her integrity and that of the company she has run so well? She certainly didn't need the money. Nor could she have been unaware of how unfair the practice is to small shareholders."

-- William G. Flanagan, Dirty Rotten CEOs, on...

Meg Whitman, putative frontrunner for the Republican nomination for Governor of California, wants to make something perfectly clear about the kind of leader she'll be: The kind who doesn't give a shit.

She'd like to cut corporate taxes and get rid of some regulations and that's it. On any...

First I wondered why Meg Whitman announced that she was running for Governor of California two years before the election. Then I wondered why she wasn't giving any interviews. But now it all makes sense: She wants us to have plenty of time to not get to know her.

It's...

Last week, President Obama said he wanted to replace Justice Souter with another judge who feels empathy, and since then our friends in the crankosphere have been arguing that empathy is bad.

This is justice we're talking about. And it's a slippery slope from empathy to mercy.

I can't imagine...

Colonial Williamsburg has a village idiot. Here he is:

Yes, it's something new: Xenophobic dinner theater.

You don't have to watch the whole thing. If you're white, and have an older relative you wish was...

Defense Secretary Gates held a press conference today and laid out his plans for next year's budget. America's arms spending will increase. But it won't increase as fast as it might have. That's why the headlines say "MAJOR CUTS." Defense Secretary Gates ordered four more F-22 fighter-bombers, today, in the...

Burt Prelutsky was a TV writer a long time ago. Then he aged out of it and became a crank. This wasn't one of those major loses like Steinbeck. Now he writes a column for Townhall.com, the popular website owned by a Christian radio network.

Here's something from his current...

There was a minor scandal this week involving the forces of light and darkness mucking around with Barack Obama's Wikipedia page. America's citizen scholars kept adding stuff exposing the president as a Kenyan sleeper spy with a fake birth certificate. Wikipedia, under orders from ACORN and Al-Qaeda, kept erasing it....

1) I'm running for governor of California.

2) I have a billion dollars.

3) I'm 53 years old. I've been a proud member of the Republican Party for two years.

4) My campaign website is called Megwhitman.com. Its background is the color of money.

5) I have an MBA from...

Alaska's Iron Dog snowmobile race ended Saturday night. Todd Palin finished sixth. Came out of the wild woods to be greeted at the Fairbanks finish by Greta Van Susteren, which is the whole reason men have always come home from the sea. Oh, and his wife was there too....

While you read this, Alaska's First Dude, Todd Palin, is riding a snowmobile -- I'm sorry, snow machine -- 1971 miles from Big Lake to Fairbanks. In the course of performing this awesome feat, his Arctic Cat's powerful two-stroke engine will emit the same amount of hydrocarbons as an automobile...

If there's one thing that makes me madder than pork-filled make-work programs, it's shadowy netroots pressure groups that just want to get rich off big government. Who's with me?

Which is why that anonymous "Protect American Jobs / Save the F-22 Raptor" ads on Drudge -- and every other...

When Mother Teresa died she owned the clothes on her back, a rosary and a bucket. The day she died, like every other day, she started off with the Prayer of St. Francis, the one that asks, "Oh Master grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled...

The week, President Obama announced that lobbyists wouldn't be allowed in his administration and nominated a defense lobbyist to be deputy Secretary of Defense.

The rule, and it's an inspiring rule, is that lobbyists can't work for agencies they've lobbied in the last two years. The nominee is William J....

Tolstoy, who liked standing around in the cold as much as the next guy, still wouldn't have thought the inauguration was a very big deal. So what if we changed one president for another?

Tolstoy would remind us that the king is history's slave. An unconscious instrument in the attainment...

If you like Southern fiction -- and who doesn't -- you're always on the lookout for the next Faulkner, someone who can take you, again, to that world of idiot manchildren and spinsters having sex with skeletons. A world of drunkards and poets, where degenerates and fanatically proper and squeamish...