Dear Judge Mukasey:

You said you needed to do some research to determine whether or not waterboarding is unlawful. I can understand that. Though waterboarding is personally "repugnant" to you, you're just not ready to conclude that it's illegal. You're a cautious, prudent guy. You have to look at the...

The mainstream media is not good at recognizing genuine courage in its multifarious forms. It's easy to report about heroism when it involves physical courage. And of course the mainstream media laps it up when presented with make-believe courage, like when it's nicely gift-wrapped around unwitting real soldiers by the...

I was looking closely at a bottle of pills in the kitchen one day last year when my then 10 year-old son asked me what I was doing. I said I was just reading the label on a bottle, and my son responded by asking me if one of the...

Karl Rove's inglorious exit from Washington hasn't hurt his protégés when it comes to finding work. After all, while Rove's strategic goals for the Republican Party appear to be in tatters, his legacy of winning low-ball tactics isn't being questioned by the pitiable cast of GOP presidential wannabees debasing themselves...

A few days ago, Rupert Murdoch's Times of London screamed "A catastrophe with mankind's footprints stamped on it." The Times' more conservative rival, The Telegraph, was more dispassionate, with its headline reading "Man-made global warming increases rainfall." Of course, the left-leaning Guardian also covered the story. Japan's...

In 1944, Sergeant Rudy Michaels got a lesson about torture. The lesson was simple and straightforward: The U.S. doesn't torture. It's against the rules and it doesn't work, period. Michaels' instructors weren't just regurgitating a sentence or two from an Army manual. They were training an elite group of soldiers...

Here we go again. An intrepid MSNBC reporter has uncovered further evidence supporting conventional wisdom, i.e. that journalists are liberal. The report concludes that "journalists dole out cash to politicians" and that most "newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left." MSNBC identified 144 journalists, of whom 125 gave money to "Democrats...

Senate debate on the revived immigration bill could start as early as next week. A major reason for the bill's revival is the Republican-backed amendment providing another $4.4 billion for border surveillance and workplace enforcement. It's clear that negotiations on the bill are moving one way only: toward tougher...

The progressive blogging community isn't a vast left-wing conspiracy. Maybe it should be -- at least temporarily.

That's what it might take to get to the bottom of the Justice Department scandal, which isn't just about Alberto Gonzalez and the inappropriate firing of US Attorneys and hiring of political hacks....