(Video courtesy of our friends at C-SPAN) UPDATE: Here’s the transcript: Q If I could change topics, then, what did the President think of Wanda Sykes comment about Rush Limbaugh and the hijacker? MR. GIBBS: Well, I’ll leave it to the immediate past president of the White House Correspondents Association to discuss – Q I [...]

The release of journalist Roxana Saberi from an Iranian prison is definitely a positive development–for her and her family, obviously, but also, as Joe points out, for the information it gives us about divided factions within the Iranian government.  Meanwhile in North Korea, journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling remain behind bars awaiting “trial for [...]

David McKiernan is one of our finest generals, especially when it comes to conventional warfare. If you need to get a force from the Kuwait border to Baghdad in three weeks, he’s the guy to do it–as he did at the beginning of the Iraq War. I’m not sure he was perfectly situated when it [...]

I like David Frum. I think he’s a smart and honorable guy, who refuses to walk in lockstep with the conservative movement–but he’s still a conservative, and there is a reflexive difference between the way he and I look at the world. Today, he criticizes the Obama Administration for intervening in California’s budget reduction travails [...]

There are all sorts of interesting signals coming out of Iran these days. Today, the American journalist Roxana Saberi was released from prison, which is excellent news but doesn’t diminish the outrageousness of her incarceration in the first place. This much seems clear: Some faction in the Iranian government wanted her in jail  on trumped [...]

So what to make of the news that major players in the health care industry are vowing to “do our part” to rein in health costs as part of the Obama Administration’s drive to get a major reform bill passed this year? The White House seems to think it is a great step forward. Yesterday, [...]

The annual spring rite that is known in these parts as the prom has come and gone. It reached new heights of giddiness–movie stars! movie stars!–but was so crowded that I didn’t actually spot many of them. At one point, someone at my table (we were toward the rear of a huge ballroom) told me [...]

In response to your current Cafferty File question on CNN.com: What does it mean that a comedian will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate? Uhm, when has that not been the case? Yours truly, A Viewer

Statement just released from Robert Gibbs: “The President has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera as Director of the White House Military Office.” Who? Oh, this guy. Yeah, that’s his bad.