There were two things that surprised me about the AEI forum on Friday on the Iraq “surge” and attendant MoveOn.org demonstration against it. First, there was singing. Outside. Among the protesters. A group of about six youngish people in rain ponchos were singing something that sounded a little like a hymn or chants in the [...]

On Fox News Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offers up a talking point we sure didn’t hear during the election. If the Republicans were still running things, he suggests, nothing important would get done in Washington over the next two years. So apparently it’s a GOOD thing to have Democrats in charge on Capitol [...]

I remember taking the train to Wilmington to interview Joe Biden during a Senate recess in the mid-1990′s. Most of what I knew about him at the time I’d gleaned from Richard Ben Cramer’s outstanding book about the 1988 presidential campaign and the men who waged it, What It Takes. For those who haven’t read [...]

Even Brent Scowcroft, who was right all along. He tells Stephanopoulos that he might favor more troops in Iraq to stop ethnic cleansing in Baghdad…then says he thinks it’s a bad idea for American troops to try to police a civil war–which means that he’s for and against the same thing. When Stephanopoulos catches him [...]