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Ezra Klein–no relation, but good friend–was always Exhibit A against those people who say there’s nothing in the blogosphere but uninformed rant. He’s at the top of the list when it comes to journalists covering domestic policy issues, especially health care. And now he has a new home, at the Washington Post. I wish him all the best …

It would be judging Barack Obama by a pretty low standard to give him credit just for showing up to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame. But it’s also a mistake to dismiss Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins’ introductory comments about Obama as just so much puffery. “President Obama has come to Notre Dame, …

I could, in blog writer style, try to begin to characterize the revelations in Robert Draper’s GQ blockbuster about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. But there is a slim chance that any characterization of the article would make you, the reader, feel like you don’t have to read it. And that would be a disservice. Read the …

This is smart and wicked clever: The President has appointed Jon Huntsman, the popular governor of Utah, as Ambassador to China. It’s smart because Huntsman knows China and is fluent in Mandarin, qualities that will be well received in China. He also has real stature, a co-chair of John McCain’s presidential campaign and a voice for …

Or rather, how it really, really doesn’t. As she does with pretty much everything she writes about, Gail Collins nails it.

(By White House photographer Pete Souza)

On May 2 I blogged about the increasing number of annoying and illegal robo-calls that I, and thousands of others, have been getting. Well, thanks to Senator Chuck Schumer and the Federal Trade Commission (hat tip Daniel Lippman) I’m only getting one or two a week, down from more than a dozen. I hope everyone else has been so relieved. …

Rather than update my last post, I decided to start a new one so everyone has a fresh slate on which to vent through the weekend. C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter Friday afternoon to C.I.A. employees telling them that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “truthfully” briefed in 2002 but he also reiterated his statement that …

I know what you’ve been telling yourself: What we really need right now is another aggregator of web-based content!

But here’s a new one worth taking a peek at, which comes to us by way of our former TIME colleague Eric Roston and the Nicholas Institute.

Here’s the latest from me on the Speaker’s accusation yesterday that the C.I.A. lied to her.

From his statement, just released:

Today, the Department of Defense will be seeking additional continuances in several pending military commission proceedings. We will seek more time to allow us time to reform the military commission process. The Secretary of Defense will notify the Congress of several changes to the rules governing

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This is hands down the week’s most fascinating story. A lawyer is assasinated in Guatemala. He posthumously releases a video online, which spreads widely, accusing the nation’s president with orchestrating his murder. In response, protests are organized around the country, many via Facebook and Twitter. The unrest threatens to topple the …

The humor of this clip may only be fully appreciated by adults of a certain age, who will never, no matter what happens, forget the voice of Mister Rogers. For the rest, take a few minutes to enjoy perhaps the only time that reading a poem in sworn testimony led a Senator to declare, “Looks like you just earned the $20 million.” (Also …