Month: July 2009

Blah, blah, blah: CAIRO — Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned foreign governments on Monday that Iranians would react as a “united fist” to meddling in domestic affairs, while officials in the elite...

Wanna buy an IOU? With the first IOUs born of California’s fiscal gridlock in the mail, the open market for them has already formed on Craigslist. “Will pay cash for California/IOUs” reads one Daly City posting...

“I would urge conservatives in California to find a Democrat to run in every Assembly and Senate seat in California that can’t be contested by Republicans, and then to run a Republican in every seat they could...

Russ Douthat has a somewhat decent column in today’s New York Times that argues persuasively that Sarah Palin never should have accepted John McCain’s invitation to join his ticket. I agree with Douthat about that....

Some people have all the luck. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 93, died in his sleep early Monday at his Washington home, according to media reports. He died in his sleep at the age of 93. Somehow, that doesn’t...