The Stopped Clock

Paul Krugman interprets President Obama's comments on budget deficits, "that now is the time to 'get serious' about reducin...

Poor David Brooks seems to think his children's romantic lives will be ruined by 'texting'. For the most part he's unintent...

Pat Buchanan is upset that the media is paying so much attention to the corruption and ineptitude of Hamad Karzai. He argues that when we...

Of course not. Hiatt and his boys serve up a typically insipid, unsigned editorial suggesting the opposite. But their image of us standing o...

In keeping with his penchant to prove how little he knows about... pretty much everything, Ross Douthat argues today in favor of third parti...

Robert Reich, who to date has been arguing that a healthcare bill must be passed before a limited window of opportunity closes, today argu...

While Robert Samuelson offers his softball argument against stimulus spending , Paul Krugman continues to advocate for greater stimulus spe...

Robert Samuelson lectures us about debt and taxes: Despite huge deficits, interest rates on 10-year Treasury bonds have hovered around 3.5 p...

Robert Kagan suggests that Obama is being "played" by Iran. The thesis here appears to be that we have three tools to use with Ir...

Among the many incompetent decisions of the Bush Administration were its decisions to team up with camera-friendly, English-speaking, but ex...

Although he makes his own view difficult to pin down, George Will seems to endorse the war on drugs, from marijuana to... whatever, quoting ...

You have to wonder what the excuse sounds like : Charges have been laid against the 62-year-old woman who became a viral sensation after vid...

I'm still not sure why he hasn't been reminded not to let the door connect with his backside on his way out.... 1 Update: " At...

Bill Kristol is urging the Republican Party to continue its hard tack to the right, pointing to a Gallup poll in which 40% of Americans des...

Tyler Cowen takes a valid premise , and then gallops off in the wrong direction. The proposals now before Congress would require just about ...

Robert Samuelson, whose prior commentary on healthcare reform issues is pretty atrocious , again takes on the subject . A brief response to ...

It's not that Fred Hiatt's editorials are usually good, but he usually hides behind the anonymity of his editorial board when he mak...

Have you ever seen Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory ? Recall Gene Wilder's "protests" when the various naughty childr...

From what Jackson Diehl has written, it appears that the new lessons of history are : Unless the current event is exactly like the historic...

Read his opening two paragraphs . The biggest distinction between George and Abe 1 is that he wraps his rambling digression into his larger...