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For McCain to try to argue that he is not being treated fairly by the media is downright outrageous. Nobody in the history of modern politics has been a bigger media sweetheart than John McCain.

Any one of the embarrassing incidents and comments this week would dominate the news cycle if they came from the Obama campaign. Yet McCain barely gets a mention.

Deadspin relates the news today that the Iranian National Men's basketball team, already training here in the U.S., will participate in a series of ex...

Frank Lautenberg, one of the Senate's most prominent Jewish figures, ripped John McCain on Wednesday for dishonestly portraying himself as a consisten...

Iran's missile launch has helped to renew a focus on foreign policy in the Presidential campaign diminished by economic issues. As a result, the comp...

Several of Congress' most prominent Jewish members are set to go after John McCain on an issue of perceived strength: his proclaimed "toughness" in de...

Cindy McCain is heading to London for a $25,000 per-person fundraiser this week in a trip that will end a tour to promote charitable causes. The affai...

A series of misstatements and verbal gaffes hampered Sen. John McCain on the day that unofficially marked the beginning of his general election campai...

That most of the crowd loved McCain's speech is a sad reflection on AIPAC, and that it is reaping what it has sown in moving so aggressively to the right in recent years.

Direct diplomacy won't necessarily solve all of our problems but it is surely better than the current failed course, and it is worth trying.

I have news for David Brooks and all who agree with him: the Iranians do understand their system, their foreign policy, what their regime stands for, and are quite happy that you are lost in how to deal with them.

Yesterday, Time's Joe Klein noted that he could find no evidence that Sen. Barack Obama had ever specifically said he would negotiate with Iranian pre...

Before commencing his economic address in Chicago this morning, Sen. John McCain took a quick detour through Iran. Responding to remarks made in Orego...

Remember McCain's respectful campaign? He doesn't. McCain has all but declared a President Obama would be unfit to defend the United States from -- ...

It only makes sense that the media have focused non-stop on the looming threat of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago while paying scant attention to the fact that the presumptive Republican nominee for president apparently doesn't have a clue about what's going on in the Middle East. And with the U.S. death toll hitting 4,000, John McCain's tenuous grasp on what is happening in the region becomes all the more worthy of attention. READ MORE John McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy: John McCain's glowing post-visit assessment of conditions in Iraq, and Hillary Clinton's hyperbolically harrowing recollections of her 1996 trip to Bosnia both stand as shining examples of what the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge dubbed "the eyewitness fallacy." In a brilliant essay, Muggeridge described public figures of strong conviction throughout history -- many of them greatly admired and well-meaning -- who, in eyewitness accounts, saw what they wanted to see, and became what they wanted to be. READ MORE