Forget the Vatican. Apparently, most American Catholics need to get on-message as well. Although Ed Henry also declared last night that Obama’s scheduled commencement address at Notre Dame “has caused a lot of controversy among Catholics,” a new Pew Research poll indicates that “a lot” is overstating things quite a bit. It’s gotten a lot [...]

It’s Time 100 week. My choice for Time 101. Ahem: Commenter Paul Dirks wonders about my credentials for writing about music. This should answer that. Amazing how little my devoted commentariat actually knows about me…

In last night’s press conference, CNN’s Ed Henry got Obama to talk about his position on abortion by asking a trio of unrelated questions, including: “Do you still hope that Congress quickly sends you the Freedom of Choice Act so you can sign it?” Nit-picky pushback: The question is a misstatement of Obama’s campaign pledge [...]

could be the toughest part of all. Here’s why.

I just talked to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell about his new Democratic colleague, and he sheds some additional light on Arlen Specter’s decision to switch parties: Specter, Rendell says, had been looking for ways to survive politically without switching parties. One move he considered is the reverse of something that worked well for Rendell in [...]

In today’s edition, Newt Gingrich tells Washington Journal what he really thinks of the RNC and Michael Steele:

Last night, Barack Obama said he had recently read an article about Winston Churchill during the London blitz. “Churchill said, ‘We don’t torture,’ when the entire British — all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat,” Obama said. “And then the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking short-cuts, [...]

In case you weren’t already panicked: WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says he’s advising his own family to stay off commercial airlines and even subways because of the new swine flu. Biden said Thursday if one person sneezes on a confined aircraft, “it goes all the way through the aircraft.” Going beyond official [...]

For most of the last 100 days, President Obama has fended off criticism that he is trying to do too much at once. He had no choice, he would counter. “We cannot successfully address any of our problems without addressing them all,” he famously said in a radio address on February 21. But on Wednesday, [...]