Month: May 2009

There are fewer and fewer states where the two U.S. Senators are from different parties. And in many of those states, like Missouri, Louisiana, Indiana, and South Dakota, the Democrat is pretty damn conservative. Iowa kind of...

Somewhat surprisingly, President Obama gave the commencement speech at Notre Dame University today and the world did not come to an abrupt end. I can’t tell you how boring I found this whole controversy and how thankful I...

The Times loves rich people so much it cries for them when they lose 20% of their investments in a hedge fund, and the poor, wealthy hedge fund manager feels he must retire from the business: Two weeks from now, a seven-year-old...

So, Dick Cheney’s secret, undisclosed location was actually a bunker built directly under his home in the Naval Observatory. I guess you call that ‘hiding in the plain sight.’ It looks like Cheney had the...

These headlines appeared this morning in the sometimes liberal Israeli newspaper, Haartez, about Netanyahu’s meeting on Monday with President Obama and the issues likely to be on the table, including Palestinian statehood,...