Month: April 2009

Some news from Trinidad: Mr. Obama came to this lush and mountainous Caribbean island with the aim of forging new relationships in a region that felt ignored by his predecessor, and on that score he clearly succeeded. He tamped...

Seeing Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) acting like an idiot got me thinking about the future of Republicans in the Senate. When they convene in 2011, what is the Senate likely to look like? Here are some predictions. Right now, Chris...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”: John Kenneth Galbraith

Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, report in Newsweek: Though administration officials declared that CIA interrogators who followed Justice’s legal guidance on torture would not be prosecuted, that does not mean the...

Something tells me this Axis of Evil Leader wouldn’t have gone to all this trouble if W was still our President: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said an Iranian-American journalist jailed for spying must have her...