Robert A George

Huffington Post colleagues Peter Daou and Chris Durang are frustrated and incensed at the media for ignoring Stephen Colbert's ascerbic routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

They chalk it up to the (in their view) compliant MSM and its preference for buying into the preferred conservative view...

(Crossposted, with minor changes, from Ragged Thots)

I'm not really much of a fan of '60s "protest" or hippie music. However, there are notable exceptions.

Crosby, Stills and Nash were never musically interesting until Neil Young hooked up with them (after having worked with Stephen Stills previously in...

Crossposted from Ragged Thots.

Editor & Publisher has the basic rundown on the Ben Domenech/"Red America" saga.

Ben responded here with this interesting passage:

The truth is, no conservative could write for the Post without being subject to the gauntlet of the liberal attack machine. There...

Actually, "non-black" poll day might be more accurate.

It seems like, when Steve Gilliard and I were doing our blog version of "playing the dozens" a few weeks back (here, here, here and here), evidently, we were wasting our time.

Why? Because George W. Bush has...

Now that Judith Miller has been sprung – and reportedly about to cash in big time for her difficult time in jail, let's revisit those "Two Tense Weeks in July." When I posted this extended timeline a few weeks ago, it produced some perplexity. So, open up the...

From a rhetorical standpoint, President Bush's address Tuesday was well-written and presented and may provide a momentary boost in support for his position of completing -- to use a word he uttered nine times -- "the mission."

However, the essential problem in this attempt to prevent the rise of...

Ken Duberstein is a mensch.

Who's he and why say that?

Duberstein, for those who don't know, is currently a Washington lobbyist, CEO of the eponymously named Duberstein Group. But, more significantly, he was Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff after then-Sen. Howard Baker stepped in to to...

As the War over Judges takes center stage in the Senate today, there's been so much hypocrisy on both sides that it is refreshing to see a candid assessment of one of the Bush nominees that actually looks at the person's record and thoughts rather than either using her as...

Well, thank goodness that didn't take long. One of the early criticisms of this effort is that there are all these nice opinions offered by many opinionated folks but it seems a little, oh, what's the word, boring? Indeed, as Farhad Manjoo points out in Salon: "[I]t would be...

Welcome.

Thanks to Arianna for giving me a little space in this little venture. My bio nearby tells you a little bit about me. It also informs you where else you can find me in the "real world" as well as other parts of blogdom. Since I...