Palin Is Nixon, Minus The Smarts
Sarah Palin's rhetoric against the East and West Coast elites, and liberal media, appeals to aggrieved "ordinary Americans", in her phrase. Sounds like "the silent majority." Is this Nixon redux?
Sarah Palin's rhetoric against the East and West Coast elites, and liberal media, appeals to aggrieved "ordinary Americans", in her phrase. Sounds like "the silent majority." Is this Nixon redux?
As Obama contemplates a new strategy for Afghanistan, he should consider integrating the conservative values of fiscal discipline and limited government into his foreign policy decision-making.
The upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has revealed that a whole lot of people have totally and utterly forgotten the way our system of justice is designed to operate.
I'm not on anyone's list to receive emails or blogs or even solicitations for money from extremely right wing, politically conservative organizations ...
President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.
Beyond the merits of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in federal criminal court in Manhattan is the fact that it was his decision.
The experiences of liberal elites are so outside of the mainstream that, very often, they just don't understand the working class. Very few have any experience living with or knowing working-class people.
General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
For years liberals and conservatives have argued back and forth about a press biased against their side. President Obama is now leading a crusade agai...
Persecution fantasy is Fox News's lifeblood; give it the faintest whiff of the real thing and look out for a gale-force hissy fit -- as the Obama administration has discovered by now.
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.
In White House news, upon hearing about the six-year old boy from Colorado who flew away in his parent's helium balloon, President Obama decided to es...
Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...
The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.
Last time I checked -- this was a proud capitalist country. Founded on the principles of the great Adam Smith. We are all about making money -- not nursing a bunch of malingerers and malcontents.
Is the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding?