The cover of the October 8, 2007, issue of Pat Buchanan’s magazine, American Conservative, shows a photo of Gen. David Petraeus under the headline, “Sycophant Savior.” The cover story is subheaded, “General Petraeus wins a battle in Washington — if not in Baghdad.”
Beyond the headline, the American Conservative article is harshly critical of the general […]

Keith Olbermann believes the controversy over Bill O’Reilly’s racism-embued comments about Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem have pushed O’Reilly to the edge of sanity:
“I think he‘s on the verge of having a breakdown. I think he needs psychiatric help.”– Marvin Kittman, O’Reilly biographer
O‘REILLY on his radio show: I‘m going to hunt you down, and I […]

John Edwards has been playing to win Iowa, hoping to build momentum that will make him competitive with the frontrunner coming out the gate. Across all the polling I’ve seen, he is only doing well in Iowa.
The next stop after Iowa and New Hampshire is South Carolina. If Edwards, who was born in South […]

Could a narcissistic ideologue with the personal warmth of a salamander win the Republican nomination next year? Under normal circumstances, if the salamander in question were Newt Gingrich, the answer would be no.
“I don’t see as a citizen how you could turn that down.”– Newt Gingrich, upon challenging his supporters to raise a $30 […]

There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to earn a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own […]

A few days after the 2004 elections, the late Molly Ivins found a small sliver of a silver lining in the reelection of George W. Bush.
If the GOP nominee runs against Bush, he risks alienating the GOP base, none of whom he can afford to lose. If he runs with the president, he’ll have […]

When the hubbub over Florida’s new presidential primary date began, the Florida Democratic Party was quick to blame the Republican-led state legislature for a change that violated national Dem Party rules and introduced the state party to a world of hurt. It turns out, however, that it was actually a Democratic state senator who introduced […]

I thought Dan Rather’s suit against CBS for wrongful dismissal was a big joke, since it took him two years to get up the gumption to file it. But then it was reported that he could be calling George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush to testify as material witnesses.
Rather is claiming that the […]

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.
— Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) Italian adventurer