In a flagrant political act, the State Department has barred its employees from attending Sen. Barack Obama's speech in Berlin tonight. Under the pretense that he is maintaining political neutrality, the Washington Post reported today, State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy has interpreted the Foreign Affairs Manual...

Usually, William Kristol deploys his New York Times column to try and provide John McCain with some extra intellectual firepower. But today he leaps into the breach to assist Obama. Or so he would have it. Kristol urges Obama to declare that nothing less than victory will do in...

It's official: Sen. Barack Obama will speak in Berlin before the Victory Column in the Tiergarten with the Brandenburg Gate just down the road. So much for the controversy swirling around the prospect of Obama speaking at the Brandenburg Gate (Charles Krauthammer has an op-ed pasting Obama for what...

Sen. Barack Obama has made a big deal about outreach to the rest of the world. He's right. America's reputation abroad isn't in trouble; it's in tatters. But, as I'm hearing from foreign correspondents, he isn't practicing what he preaches. Rather, Obama has apparently given no interviews to foreign reporters....

A well-placed source close to the State Department confirms that Sen. Chuck Hagel will indeed definitely be joining Barack Obama on his trip later this month to Europe and the Middle East. This is a blow to John McCain's candidacy. Just as the neocons peeled off from the Democratic party...

Vietnam, which figured prominently in the 2004 presidential campaign, has surfaced again as a volatile issue as the McCain and Obama camps square off. Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark's recent remarks about Sen. John McCain's service not necessarily qualifying him to become president have enraged the McCain camp, inside sources...

In the wake of today's landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning much of Washington, DC's ban on firearms, the Bush administration has announced that it is ordering all citizens of voting age to possess firearms as a preventive measure against possible terrorist attacks. The new program was announced shortly after the...

As Barack Obama prepared to take the oath of office and deliver his inaugural speech on the steps of the Capitol this morning, Sen. Hillary Clinton said that it was too early for her to make any decisions about ending her campaign for the White House. Speculation was rife in...

Speaking Monday at a fascinating on-the-record session on U.S.-Russia relations at the Nixon Center, former Reagan administration official Robert McFarlane declared that McCain's first year as president would be "neocon redux." McFarlane, who was Reagan's national security advisor and who supports McCain's candidacy, emphasized that he wasn't speaking as a...

In the aftermath of its retraction of the Tupac Shakur story alleging that associates of Sean "Puffy" Combs were responsible for his shooting in 1994, the Los Angeles Times made an announcement today that is sending shockwaves through the mainstream media. It has apparently decided to begin publishing at least...

Hillary Clinton's unfortunate slip about dodging sniper fire on a tarmac in Bosnia threatens to obscure the far greater dangers that she courted and braved during eight years as first lady. Though media critics have been spluttering about the frequent redactions in her recently released White House schedules, they coudn't...

With the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., conservatives have been eulogizing him as a pivotal figure in the history of their movement. President Bush declared, "His legacy lives on in the ideas he championed and in the magazine he founded -- National Review."

Not exactly. As Buckley headed into...

The canonization of John McCain has begun. In his Monday New York Times column, William Kristol suggested that McCain isn't simply a candidate for president. He's something more-the next Winston Churchill who can lead the U.S. to victory in the war on terror. According to Kristol, who...