Pentagon, intel pros tell Bush war cannot be won
While President George W. Bush tells the American people that U.S. troops must stay in Iraq until they have “achieved victory,” Pentagon planners and intelligence professionals tell the White House…
The politics of personal investigation
One of the joys of becoming a Supreme Court justice is that special-interest groups rummage through your past for nuggets of information that they can then use to oppose your…
Petty politics and Bruce Springsteen
Remember when President Ronald Reagan cited Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as a patriotic tribute? And people who had actually listened to the song had to point out that…
Wal-Mart wins again
Wal-Mart, go away, or at least become something vastly different, say lefties and an occasional commentator on the right. But the American people voted on the issue on the day…
A culture of graft and greed
Only in Washington -- a city of feigned myopia and faux morality _ could a front-page headline like this be printed and be taken for news, not satire. "A Growing Wariness…
Doom and gloom sweeps over the GOP but Dems aren’t home free
Doom and gloom washes over the Republican Party these days like a storm surge from Hurricane Katrina, drowning partisan political operatives in a rising sea of scandal. …
Progress remains elusive on Gulf Coast
Three months since America's most destructive natural disaster lashed this region, this randomly selected street still resembles hell on earth. After the fourth, fifth, and sixth months since Katrina have…
So much for an enlightened America
In some ways, American women enjoy economic freedoms not enjoyed by women elsewhere. But we also use that false sense of enlightenment to delude ourselves that American women possess political…
Old war protestors never die
Like old soldiers, old war protesters never die. But neither do they fade away. They just keep getting arrested and hauled away.…
Watchdog group wants probe of Focus on Family’s tax status
A liberal watchdog group is challenging Focus on the Family's tax-exempt status, claiming founder James Dobson crossed clear IRS guidelines with his increased political involvement in recent years. …
