After Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace came out of the closet two weeks ago as a proud homophobe, telling an interviewer that he believes gay people, including gay servicemembers, are “immoral,” the general was the target of a barrage of criticism from the left — as well as from one lone voice on the right.
“As […]

In all the hot Rovian rhetoric Pres. Bush is spouting about vetoing the Democrats’ emergency supplemental war spending bill, the fundamental fact that it is an “emergency supplemental” is routinely overlooked.
Bush complains about the Democrats “micro-managing” the war, but if he had “macro-managed” it, “emergency” funding would not be necessary.
As he enters the fifth year […]

Although our country is at war in Iraq, the United States will have to continue to carry on without diplomatic leadership in Belgium after President Bush announced today he was withdrawing his nomination of Sam Fox to the post of ambassador to the Benelux nation. The reason?
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush believes […]

The rest of the time, he’s more conservative: Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is being described in the MSM as a conservative’s conservative as he mulls a possible presidential bid. But CQPolitics conducted a comparison (follow link, then click on “chart” to download the PDF) of his Senate voting record to that of Republican candidates […]

Saying, ‘My country, right or wrong’ is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
— G.K. Chesterton

I complain about obsessing on the horse race so early, and yet somehow it is… irresistible.
According to the USA Today-Gallup poll,the GOP’s putative frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani lost 13 percentage points over the last three weeks, from 44 percent on March 4 to 31 percent now. His support was drained by “Law & Order” star Fred […]

Ever felt like going Old Testament on somebody? You know, maybe exact some divinely sanctioned retribution on a neighbor or the guy who cut you off on the expressway this morning, secure in the faith that you’re backed up by your crew — Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Well, according to a recent study, that […]

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), English poet, essayist

After Elizabeth Edwards announced her cancer had returned last week, comedian Rush Limbaugh criticized her and her husband, the presidential candidate John Edwards, for staying in the race:
The likelihood Limbaugh will suggest that Snow’s announcement is a political ploy to gain sympathy for the White House — despite abounding evidence they could use it — […]