Polling Place Story of the Day

There have been concerns that Indiana’s voter ID law, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, might be causing some confusion at the polls today. Reports are that voting is generally going smoothly, but I don’t think anyone expected this: About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow [...]

Clinton’s Day After Option

For much of the day yesterday, The Huffington Post carried this banner headline: CLINTON CAMP SAYS IT WILL USE THE NUCLEAR OPTION All that was missing was a Drudge-style siren. The gist of the story, which first carried the headline “Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option,” was that Clinton folks might try to “ram” a decision [...]

McCain Camp Pushes Back on HuffPost Voting Claim

Hey, Mark Salter, why don’t you tell us how you really feel? Asked why Huffington would make up her story about McCain not voting for Bush, longtime McCain aide Mark Salter — who has previously tangled with the Huffington Post — ripped into her. “Why would she make something up? Because she’s a flake and [...]

Everything You Thought You Knew About Evangelicals Is Wrong (Maybe)

Key West, FL Greetings from a dim conference room. Today’s diversion from the beach was a presentation from Michael Lindsay in which he presented “eight myths about evangelicals.” Lindsay is the author of “Faith in the Halls of Power,” and had conducted some of academia’s most thorough and sensitive research on evangelicalism. His “myths” are [...]

Ashcroft, Yoo to Testify

At last! What would you ask them? UPDATE: A subpoena has been authorized for Cheney COS Addington.

Newt Gingrich Warns the GOP: ‘Real Disaster’ is Coming

Writing in Human Events, the former Speaker says that Saturday’s loss of a long-held Republican House seat in Louisiana, coming after a similar defeat in Illinois, “should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive [...]

In the Arena

You Can’t Talk to Iran…

if they don’t want to talk to you. Of course, every effort shold be made to negotiate–but it’s always good to bear in mind that the mullahs have been as recalcitrant as the Bush Administration…and more recalcitrant than the Clinton Administration (at least, in Clinton’s latter years). In 2000, a handshake had been choreographed between [...]