The Stopped Clock

George Will criticizes John McCain today , for daring to ask people if they are better off now than they were four years ago. Will is correc...

Recently, John McCain's campaign manager offered an admission : Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, ins...

A speech by Spiro Agnew? The New York Times dragged William Safire out of his rocking chair to give us... well, the same thing he's bee...

If a waitress named "Lucille" says so, it must be true ? No, really, I'm skeptical, particularly of the "Sambo" part...

Then ( Wall Street's Favorite Girl , Time Magazine, Dec. 7, 1970): Speculators have been intrigued largely because Fannie Mae's quas...

The best thing about being a maverick is that everything you do is 100% mavericky. Take, for example, your choice of Vice President. Choose ...

Leave it to David Brooks. Commenting on McCain's choice of Palin, he laments, Parts of the press pack elevated Bristol Palin’s pregnanc...

Music for Kwame Kilpatrick , who is entering his guilty plea as I type. His lawyer has a signed letter of resignation in hand....

... who want nothing more 1 than to conceal the facts . It's not a partisan thing; it's what pretty much all politicians do when th...

Note to Kwame Kilpatrick 1 : Attack Canada . __________ 1. For the moment , at least, he remains mayor of Detroit .

Not in a "Wild West" sense, but because toy safety isn't a job for the federal government . In his Denver speech, Barack Obam...

Remember how last month the National Enquirer was being lauded in conservative circles for getting its facts straight, and for breaking impo...

It's almost like I knew it was coming.... What's the problem with TV news that leads to so many softball interviews and an avoidanc...

Maverick (n) - someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action. It seemed that, once upon a time, being a maverick meant stand...

As you may recall, David Brooks doesn't make factual errors - he makes jokes . And today's column has some real side-splitters about...

Given my recent comments about TV news , I should give Campbell Brown credit for trying to get McCain's professional liar spokesman to...

I don't mean to cast any doubt on the ferocity of Sarah Palin's high school basketball play , but let's be serious for a minute....

I know... if you're going to look for hypocrisy you shouldn't flip over the slimiest rock on the blogosphere and feign surprise at w...

I meant to blog about this book , Slavery By Another Name , after hearing Bill Moyers interview its author. It describes the little known hi...

If this were written by anybody else , I would wonder if the author was "that stupid", or if he was assuming that his audience is ...