The Stopped Clock

I have some sympathy for the " It should be about competence , not marital fidelity" argument, when applied to somebody like Gene...

Mark Thoma quotes Robert Reich on "grand bargain" negotiations, with Reich proposing how President Obama could open negotiation...

Jackson Diehl and I have different ideas of what constitutes "blowback". I see "blowback" as the unintended consequence...

In simple terms, following the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, three positions emerged on what should happen in the Palesti...

A couple of years ago I wrote about my experience with a fund raiser for The Breast Cancer Society , and the behavior of their representati...

Rush Limbaugh rant, We have achieved, brilliant, highly accomplished African-Americans, blacks, Hispanics, you name it, throughout the Repu...

Note to George Will : If you can't make an honest case for your position on campaign spending, specifically allowing unlimited corpora...

At a bare minimum, you need to vote for politicians who are serious about balancing the budget. How do you know if balancing the budget is ...

One of the terms that should strike fear into your heart when uttered by a government agency is that they've entered into a "cost-...

In sport, a team that has reached a point at which it is guaranteed victory may hesitate to run up the score. A win is a win and, absent th...

I've commented before on the concern trolling about minorities getting into schools that are above their academic reach, then finding ...

I've commented on the dimwitted argument by people that it's hard to believe don't know better, that any negative movement in t...

This one goes out to David Frum .

Okay, I'm really turning that line back on the political right, specifically those factions that have tried to turn the War in Afghanis...

I suspect that, were he the Republican nominee, George Romney would have won this election. Leaving aside the question of whether it is pos...

Who are you going to vote for ?

I won't blame Michael Gerson for the title to his latest column, as it was likely chosen by an editor, but wow... what a ridiculous att...

As did his sending John Sununu out a few days ago to once again inject race into the election, Mitt Romney's absurd distortion of Pres...

You're not going to find this on Fox News: John Sununu: I'm what they call an over-the-top to a, you know, what we use in campaigns...

Breaking News, Big Scoop from Matt Drudge: A powerful political insider claims to have an Ann Romney "Whitey" tape. Rumored conte...