This cannot be the kind of headline that the Belmont campaign team hoped for on Day One. … [Read more...]

A very amusing article today on the NYT's sports page, which in general has tragically few entertaining articles, about whining by the defeated Baltimore Ravens: Ravens Coach Brian Billick said the timeout was called because his staff did … [Read more...]

The idea that the Bush administration just did a combined 180-degree turn/belly flop on Iran makes no sense. It is completely out of keeping with the, "never admit a mistake," and, "when in doubt, look for a war," strategy of the … [Read more...]

This just in from the Times of London (a sister company of Fox News, interestingly). It is this kind of thing, I think, that contributes to the generally low international esteem for our fine country, and the sadly small number of remaining … [Read more...]

Michigan will hold its Democratic Primary on 15 January. The state has 156 delegates: more than Iowa (56) and New Hampshire (30) combined. The national party, of course, pretends that it can ignore 17 electoral votes that John Kerry won in … [Read more...]

Random L.A. Times reporter Faye Fiore worries that Willard is too perfect: By central-casting standards, the former Massachusetts governor is the perfect presidential specimen -- a comforting throwback to the 1950s, when nobody got divorced … [Read more...]

This just in from the national Democratic Party. For a few months, we've had Democratic Party "trackers" recording hundreds of hours of Republican candidates in the field.  From event to event, we've got footage of some pretty … [Read more...]

Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and the author of "Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage," offers a concise summary of several thousand years of history in a New York … [Read more...]

Could the normally apolitical U.S. Mint be laying down a counter, as it were, in favor of a November victory by Senator Clinton? The Washington Times recently reported that the Mint has released the latest coin in its, "first spouses," … [Read more...]