In which the author cringes at the prospect of Giuliani diplomacy.

CBS has fired Don Imus. We’ll see how he does on satellite. He might be quite lonely. UPDATE: Great minds think alike, but sometimes I luck out too. Sorry to echo you, Karen.

CBS Radio just announced it is firing Imus, “effective immediately, on a permanent basis,” according to the CBS News Alert that just landed in my e-mailbox. How long until Sirius picks him up?

Dana Perino told reporters only a “handful” of WH staffers had RNC “@gwb43.com” addresses. She later amended that to a “big handful.” The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington now says that the “Bush White House has lost over FIVE MILLION e-mails in a two year period.” Insert “you know what they say about [...]

Iraq-War-Architect-turned-World-Bank-President Paul Wolfowitz apologizes for helping his girlfriend get a job at the State Department where she makes $10,000 more than Condi Rice. The Financial Times, among others, thinks he should resign.

Time’s latest poll has good news for Mitt Romney, and that’s pretty much it (he’s cut in half the people who have haven’t heard of him!). There’s less good but certainly not bad news for Obama and Edwards, who have both narrowed Hillary’s lead. Interestingly, Obama is the only Dem with a lead in general [...]

Over the past decade or so, abortion opponents have been extraordinarily shrewd in picking their fights. By waging the abortion debate around issues like parental consent, where public opinion is on their side, they have managed to enact scores of new restrictions in just about every state in the country. I wrote about this at [...]

Yes, the White House “losing” those not-quite-White House emails is the big news today regarding the fate of Gonzales, the administration, etc, but this story — about the pointless prosecution of non-existent voter fraud — reminds us of just how hollow the original pretense for firing those USAs was to begin with: Mistakes and lapses [...]

For a fatalist, he was admirably joyful: (talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope) Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear [...]