In another demonstration of diplomatic silliness, the Pakistanis have convicted the doctor who helped us find Osama bin Laden of treason and sentenced him to 33 years in prison. This helps to clarify which side the Pakistanis are actually on. Hint: it’s not ours. I’ll have more about this in my print column tomorrow.
Mitt Romney is clearly a candidate terrified by his own mouth. What other explanation for his campaign’s extreme efforts to prevent reporters from asking him questions? I know that there isn’t much public sympathy for journalistic whining–including my own occasional, stupid laments–about the lack of access. But Romney’s staff has clearly taken this to a [...]
I fear that I went too easy on Mitt Romney with regard to his high school bullying escapades. It’s not the incident itself that troubles me — though it was, obviously, outrageous and disgraceful — so much as his current response: He doesn’t remember it. This is patent nonsense. How could he not remember it? Obviously [...]
I wrote last week about the former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens and the excellent program he runs for returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans called The Mission Continues. Today, he has an op-ed in the New York Times that perfectly summarizes our priorities and mission in Afghanistan. I’d hope that President Obama read it on the [...]
San Diego You might ask yourself how a political columnist recovers from all the bile and poison accumulated during endless months of watching politicians run for President. And especially after the last six months. For me, therapy inevitably consists of writing about people and programs that make a difference, and policies that actually work. I’ve [...]
I was driving through Gila Bend, Arizona, yesterday–really–stopped in a truck stop and heard three middle-aged white guys talking about Ted Nugent. All three liked the fact that Nugent hated Barack Obama, but were concerned about the fact that Nugent had said that if the President is reelected, he–Nugent–would be dead or in jail in [...]
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If Ozzie Guillen, the new manager of the Miami Marlins, had professed his love for Fidel Castro in any other part of the country, he probably wouldn’t have been suspended for five games, as the team announced today. On the other hand, the Marlin’s new stadium is smack in the middle of Little Havana, so [...]
I’ve been reading Peter Beinart’s excellent, loving and wise book about Israel, The Crisis of Zionism, and I’d normally wait until I finish to write about it, but I’ve become so distressed by the thuggish, half-crazed response that the book has received from neocon fringe elements, like this Commentary writer, that I felt I had [...]
–Ken Mehlman, the former chair of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager for George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection effort, apologizing in Salon for his participation in Republican efforts to prevent the legalization of gay marriage.
