While John McCain often argues that no one is a bigger friend to our veterans -- and it would seem logical, on the surface -- some veterans groups argue otherwise. In fact, today a leading nonpartisan organization of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans has issued a congressional scorecard that gives McCain...

Three nights after the big debate, Bill Kristol and his GOP colleagues remain delusional. Nothing new in that, but for once this is a very good thing.

You might understand Republicans immediately claiming victory for Sarah Palin in last Thursday's debate. It's the thing to do nowadays and, really,...

As you must have heard by now, Bruce Springsteen is singing for Barack Obama this weekend, drawing a massive crowd (aimed at voter registration) in Philly yesterday, on to Ohio and Michigan, with a NYC concert with Billy Joel coming up shortly. This political activity is not exactly a shock...

The funniest, and most revealing, moment in Howard Kurtz's lengthy debate wrap-up at The Washington Post today comes about halfway through it. After hailing Palin's performance and quoting numerous mainstream pundits attesting to same, all to suggest that she succeeded in stopping the bleeding, Kurtz dryly posts the following...

Coming in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: A profile of a former "star in the Republican party," Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia. As the heading has it: "Now, like dozens of his GOP colleagues, he's quitting Congress, fed up with his party, his president and the process."

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In the next few weeks, newspaper editorial boards (or, in some cases, merely the publisher or owner) will decide which candidate to endorse in the red-hot 2008 race for the White House. Well, many of them will, anyway. More and more papers are opting out of the endorsement process entirely,...

Sarah Palin has finally given a lengthy newspaper interview, but it was not with The New York Times, Washington Post or other large daily. Instead, it appears today in her hometown Wasilla, Alaska, weekly, The Frontiersman. And it was all via email.

The paper ran the interview on its front...

The Oregonian today distributed to its Portland area subscribers, as paid advertising, the controversial DVD titled Obsession that raises alarms about the threat of radical Islam. It joined at least 75 other newspapers across the country in doing so -- despite a plea by Portland Mayor Tom Potter and a...

In an age when Hollywood activism is a given -- influential though often lampooned -- it may be hard to imagine a time, not so long ago, when it was still rare and often required significant courage. You had to be there to understand the difference between then and now....

It often happens that the pundit "scoring" of a presidential debate ends up quite at odds from the polls of viewers that soon follow.

We've seen it again with last night's debate, which most pundits (on TV and in print) scored very or fairly even, with perhaps some recognition...

Surely you know about -- or likely received -- one of those classic emails from a few years back, claiming to be from a wealthy foreigner, often Nigerian, who needs help moving millions of dollars from his homeland? He would promise you, dear reader, a sizable percentage for assisting him...

Joining the New York Post (which went for McCain) as an early endorser, the Seattle Times declares, "Obama should be the next president of the United States because he is the most qualified change agent. Obama is a little young, but also brilliant. If he sometimes seems brainy and professorial,...

If you don't already do it, you really should be checking out the Anchorage Daily News site regularly, for local Palin news, editorials and op-eds, and its excellent Alaska Politics blog (special bonus Ted Stevens coverage there). Today, for example, the paper hits Palin hard in an editorial for abdicating...

A major story in this coming Sunday's special New York Times Magazine "college" issue explores Barack Obama's teaching days as a law professor at the University of Chicago. The article by Alexandra Star suggests that the aim was to find out what "kind of president he might make," based on...

The Pentagon announced, but the media were slow to cover (beyond the fact of the deaths) a shocking incident in Iraq. Two U.S. soldiers -- a staff sergeant and a sergeant -- were killed Sunday morning in a "non-hostile incident."

What was it? The military explained at first, "A U.S....

I wrote here Saturday about the "Islam terror" scaremongering DVD Obsession that the Clarion Fund has paid dozens of newspapers across the country -- almost solely in "swing" election states -- to distribute, many of them quite large in cities such as Miami, Philadelphia, Denver and Pittsburgh. (HuffPost was one...

I first heard about this a few days ago via the Huffington Post, and now the DVD has been fully unleashed. The controversial DVD was home-delivered today with McClatchy papers in North Carolina, in Charlotte and Raleigh, and the Miami Herald, bringing the nationwide total to about 70 papers, with...

Seven years ago, at this hour in the morning, I was stuck at Grand Central Terminal -- just off a commuter train and transfixed in front of a TV tuned to Fox News within a large newsstand just off the main hall. The image on the screen: the Twin Towers...

As ABC's Charles Gibson gets ready to conduct the first "real" national media interview with Sarah Palin -- and dozens of media folk offer up good questions -- some have warned not to expect much, based on his past performance or inclinations, with his mishandling of the April Obama/Clinton debate...

Since January, with the death of Ryan Maseth in Iraq -- and the heroic quest for answers by his mother, Cheryl Harris-- I have been writing about the issue of U.S. troops in Iraq and allegations against KBR and the military. Today Sen. Bob Casey released the following statement after...