Commenter Terrapin asks: Karen – You dedicated a large amount of digital ink to the DNC as they attempted to bring order to the chaotic primary schedule. Here is what the RNC is up to. Funny how the RNC is characterized as ‘laying down the law’ while the DNC gets a bunch of ‘what are [...]
From the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine, by way of USA Today’s On Deadline blog, comes this endnote to the now-famous scene in John Ashcroft’s hospital room: “Ashcroft, who looked like he was near death, sort of puffed up his chest,” Goldsmith recalls. “All of a sudden, energy and color came into [...]
Robert Novak, who has had his finger on the pulse of the Republican Party since, roughly, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, declares in his latest column that “never before have I seen morale within the party so low.” Just when it seemed things couldn’t get worse for the GOP, Novak says, along came the Larry Craig embarrassment [...]
probably should not be counting on being named as a senior fellow at the Fantastic Freedom Institute, at least not after this story in today’s New York Times: WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of [...]
• Bush, enjoying his own private I-dunno: “If the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces.” [WhiteHouse.gov] • Actual soldier’s perspective: “Personally, I think it’s a false representation…But what can I say? I’m just doing my job and don’t [...]
