Is it legal for a journalist to disclose classified information to the public? That's something of an open question, although legal op...

After the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in connection with the Boston bomb attacks, the nation's top unrepentant neocons --  John Mc...

Hey look, it's giant metaphor for Mitt Romney's foreign policy positions ahead of tonight's presidential debate: An airship p...

I suppose I have to write the obligatory Paul Ryan post. The good news about that is that there's a lot to talk about with Ryan. The bad...

I wrote Monday that Democrats suck at messaging. My evidence was a poll showing that 88% of respondents believed that President Obama had ...

Back during the '08 presidential campaign, my take was that then-President Bush had set the bar so low that anyone who took the White H...

If you ask Dick Cheney, changes in counter-terrorism tactics by the Obama administration mean we're all going to die in a big terrorist ...

Things are looking good for former Bush administration officials. You wouldn't think this would be the case, looking at some of the news...

It's one of those good news/bad news things. Yesterday, the Justice Department released nine of the Bush administration's secret mem...

Long, long ago, shrouded in the mists of ancient history (i.e., December 2006), I wrote a post I titled " The Only Purpose of Missile D...

The Peanut Corporation of America is responsible for hundreds of cases of salmonella in the United States. Investigators found "dead r...

Maybe if we all take up a collection, we can raise enough money to bribe Dick Cheney to just go away. He may be the most politically tone de...

Now that Barack Obama has signed an executive order to close the detention facility (read "prison camp") at Guantánamo Bay, one t...

Yesterday, I compared the election of Barack Obama to a movie , saying that the inauguration -- after such a long election campaign -- seems...

Presidential addresses always begin with what I think of as frosting. A bunch of inconsequential fluff, shout outs, and thanks. Bush's f...

Let's start out with a few quotes. I think on the left wing of the Democratic Party there are some people who believe that we really tor...