Month: December 2008

This is just a guess, but I’d put money down that George W. Bush will preemptively pardon Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales on Christmas Eve. Bush’s father pardoned the Iran-Contra crew on Christmas Eve 1992, and it...

A lot actually, Howard Dean represents the most serious threat to elite politics since at least the 1960s.   During Governor Dean’s tenure as DNC chair, the Democrats won two back-to-back “wave elections”...

You have to watch this video. It’s a compilation of Fox News economic experts (including that eponymous intelligent design movie maven, Ben Stein) laughing and dismissing the claims of Peter Schiff, head of EuroPacific...

Something tells me that sending a mediocre concert pianist (and the most incompetent Secretary of State and National Security Adviser in a generation) to calm the tensions between India and Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks in...

There are roughly eighteen intelligence gathering agencies in the U.S. Government. Most people lazily lump them all together under the rubric of the CIA. The CIA has two main missions, and some minor ones. The CIA has an...