Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Hillary Clinton : “I also believe we have to get tough in a diplomatic-pressure way with Iran, and I think that helps us do it. If it saves...

Bush’s radio address today is yet another attack on Congress for failing to pass war funding, with a Christmas-y theme: “Congress’ responsi...

Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes has been sentenced to the time he served awaiting his court-martial, less than 10 months, for “negligently” stabbi...

I’ve just received an email from the Fred Thompson campaign with the above subject line (I added the exclamation point; obviously Fred Thomp...

This morning, Bush met with his Cabinet, then made them stand behind him in the Rose Garden while he blathered . He and the Cabinet, he repo...

Marine Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes has been found guilty of negligent homicide, but not of unpremeditated murder, for stabbing an Iraqi soldi...

I thought we were done, but today there was another tedious debate ( tedious transcript ), there’s always another tedious debate – indeed, i...

My new favorite name, a guy on McNeil-Lehrer yesterday talking about malaria: Dr. Ripley Ballou. Bush tells ABC , “I doubt I’d be standing h...

Mike Huckabee says (video below) of his growing poll numbers, “There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one.” Zombies? Al...

Bush met some Jews today at the White House. Betcha he didn’t know they came in black. It’s International Human Rights Day, so Bush talked...

At the Univision debate ( transcript ), which would have been a lot more fun if Tancredo had shown up, the Republican presidential candidat...

The Archbishop of York cut up his dog collar – I saw it on the BBC news – and won’t wear one again until Robert Mugabe is out of office in Z...

Giuliani went on Meet the Press this morning. He defended his business dealings with the government of Qatar: “This is a country that’s mo...

Musharraf is not just firing judges who won’t take an oath of allegiance to him, he is taking away their pensions. Warsaw prosecutors have e...

More from Cheney’s Politico interview . He used this week’s favorite Bush administration metaphor: “Al Qaeda in Iraq has been sort of the l...

Transcript . Romney was introduced by Bush the Elder, who Romney thanked for the whole greatest- generation- World-War-II thing: “You left ...

Dick Cheney says that by the time his administration leaves office, Iraq will be “in a good place”: “self-governing... capable for the most...

Marine Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes is being court-martialed for bayoneting an Iraqi soldier he was on sentry duty with in Fallujah 44 times (or...

Guantanamo update: there are still 9 hunger strikers being forcibly fed, the longest of whom has been subjected to this torture for 816 day...

Not the most entertaining of these things. Bush was kind of subdued and careful. And he used the word “codicil” in a sentence. Correctly,...