The new line on the failure of Republicanism from the David Brooks right, wrapped in pretty words and "compassion," is well delivered here by Ross Douthat, it is "liberalism's" fault. Reprising the debate between George Bailey...
By Patricia H. Kushlis It’s painfully clear that whoever becomes this country’s new president in January, the US cannot continue to conduct its foreign policy along the business-as-usual lines of the Bush administration....
John McCain, it's time to bring the maverick out of retirement for one last caper. Think of how he could have reshaped this week's debate. Instead of making the desperate, socialist gambit of offering to buy up every bad...
Maybe you remember "Dave." Like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" in 1939, the central conceit of "Dave" is that what Washington needs is a jolt of reality from everyday people. A McCain spokeswoman suggested before the vice...
News Type: Opinion — Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:08 AM EDT The following article is from a good friend of mine, Suzie LeVieux of New Orleans, LA. She happens to be a true Republican for Obama and a forum monitor for...
A war profiteer who allegedly looted his body-armor company to fund a posh lifestyle has gone through a Who's Who of pricey defense lawyers - suing some, firing some, and driving others away with his temper, sources say. David...
submitted 2 hours ago by It's easier to attract the idiots than the intellectuals. Easier to convince, easier to fool. Then again, get it working just right, and you work it down to a vote between Kodos and Kang - intellectuals...
I was struck by the first three sentences of David Brooks' most recent New York Times column: Modern conservatism began as a movement of dissident intellectuals. Richard Weaver wrote a book called, “Ideas Have Consequences.”...
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Overwhelmed by crashing stock markets and what is increasingly seen by even traditional conservatives as a Faustian bargain with the extreme right-wing core of his Republican Party, Sen. John McCain's...
Christopher Buckley in Sorry, Dad, I’m voting for Obama: …I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times—I’m beginning to sound like Paul...