After Bill Clinton pardoned drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and controversy broke out, James Carville, appearing on Meet the Press in March 2001, sought cover by saying, “I don’t know all ...
Katha Pollitt, writing in a February issue of the Nation, expresses annoyance with pro-choicers who consider abortion “bad” and call for “zero abortions.” Stop giving the game away, she admonishes ...
Uproars over criticism of radical Islam almost always follow the same ironic trajectory. First, someone makes an observation about the violent character of Mohammed or Islam. Then what follows? Violent ...
The historic purpose of the Senate was to serve as an aristocratic counterweight to the sometimes mindless and destructive passions of the House of Representatives. The Senate would safeguard “the ...
The picture on the front page of Thursday’s Washington Post showed a cluster of grinning Democrats crouching eagerly toward a table at the Library of Congress on which their new ...
The greatest threats to the Constitution come from the Democrats who rise to defend it the loudest. Both Judge Alito’s Supreme Court nomination hearings in the Senate and Al Gore’s ...
Indians in Vermont disliked Howard Dean enough to oppose his presidential run. Members of the Abenaki Nation, which had squabbled with Dean over state recognition, made a point of supporting ...
Though some Democratic activists privately admit that their party is too dysfunctional to transform Republican blunders into success in the 2006 elections, the party’s reliable friends in the media, such ...