Author Archive - Paul Mirengoff
A tale of two memos
Barack and me
A low-risk, low-reward endorsement
Loathing of fear on the campaign trail, Part One
The Republican losing streak continues
Obama lays down the law
As West Virginia goes...?
The goal that kept Everton up
It's over
A strange new respectability
Everton limps to the finish line
Was McCain out-of-bounds?
Have a nice stay
A sacking long overdue
As Groucho Marx might say,
What might have been -- our government's plan for post-invasion Iraq
Celtics ape Wizards defense
Vindicating law through warfare -- a bridge too far
Now! Hampshire
Right from the start
"The biggest fairy tale ever" is about to come true
Obama limps towards the finish line
McCain nails it
An insult to our intelligence
The Wright context
Why won't the Washington Post review War and Decision?
America's favorite military mom
A word from Dartmouth students
The New York Times keeps flailing
Rage normalizing
Debunking the received wisdom about Iraq war policy-making
A speech we should be grateful for
The real Gitmo scandal
How to defend Lebron James
A call I'm happy to leave to others
The case for drilling
Shite out of luck
The Clinton attack machine comes up short
An all English final
Obama changes his tune
So sorry for the inconvenience
Name that Justice
The empire strikes back, unpersuasively
Brand protection without the fetish
A word to our Dartmouth readers
Strange times, strange reunion
An encounter on Connecticut Avenue
Panic on 15th Street
Obama knows the words, but can he learn the music?
An apologist for Syria shifts his ground
"McCain offers tax policies he once opposed"
Obama's bad luck with advisers continues
The Wright interviewer
Change you can forget about -- a word from Bill Otis
Change you can forget about, Part Two
Change you can forget about
Bad advice from the New York Times
Looking ahead to Indiana
What does it mean?
For what it's worth
Hillary's "best shot" displeases left, but why?
May 1968 and all that
John McCain and the temperament issue
Paris never disappoints but Parisians sometimes do
Paris never disappoints
I'm back
I'm off on a "fact finding mission"
Obama's other inspirational bigot
It's almost enough to make you proud of America
Barack Obama and the art of self-triangulation
Will Harvard follow Dartmouth?
The latest from Dartmouth College
Cardiff City succeeds where Liverpool and Chelsea failed
Basra and the possibility of Iraqi reconciliation
Too strange even for 2008
Making sense of Basra
Gerrard's ugly enough, no need to bring up his daughter
$13 million a year and they still can't find a plumber or a carpenter
Good help and good philosophy are hard to find
Leadership, American style
The Washington Post's editors clean up after the reporters
When being just another politician puts you ahead of your rival
The Post's paean to Sadr
"Karl Rove likes what he sees"
Who won in Basra?
Credit where it's due, Part 3
A case not made with time running out
Post-modernism or wishful thinking?
With the help of grade inflation, Nationals Park passes the Socialist Realism test
Is more less?
Good news, at least for non post-modernists
Derby disappointment
We are all Rockefeller Republicans now
Democrats unnerved
It's now or never
A Democrat unnerved
Obama lowers the bar again
Duke lowers the bar again
Airbrushing Rev. Wright, Part Two
The latest on Connerly's crusade
An oil for stooges deal
Does Obama have a "Jewish problem"?
The kind of numbers Hillary Clinton needs more of
Airbrushing Rev. Wright
Uses of the present
Uses of the past
Obama, Israel, and American Jews -- it just keeps getting worse
The rise of the conservative legal movement
The Premiership plot thickens
Sorry, I thought he meant it
The 100 years non-war
The Wright curriculum in San Diego
A modest proposal
Now you tell us
The Obama-Clinton wars --- how much fall out?
A bargain becomes a challenge
Something to think about
Do words matter?
Obama's courageous speech, Part Two
Obama's courageous speech
Michelle Obama and the audacity of whining
Political bracketology
The return of southern appeal
Barack Obama and Iraq: the audacity of opportunism
The Great Obama
Barack and the cult of personality
The Connection, Take 55
The audacity of hate, Part Four
The audacity of hate, Part Three
"A Triumph of Ideology over Evidence"
The Audacity of hate, Part Two
The audacity of hate
No "ass-kissing chickenshit" he
Heartbreak at Goodison Park
Sacked for stating the obvious
Eliot Spitzer has resigned
How quickly I forget
Europe's best league
The third banana option
Getting our priorities right in Pakistan
This is sad
Defending Robert Malley, ineffectually
The year of the minnow
Find the scandal, Part Two
The McCain imperative
The limits and perils of rock stardom
It's better than watching Brazil
The sensible response to a darkening job picture
The book tour from hell continues
A lesson in judicial modesty
Soft Power and Liberal Fascism
Stormy weather
Florentine nightmare
Giving limousine liberals a bad name
The book tour from hell
Thrice a hero
The arrogance of impotence, Obama style
Everything to play for, Part Two
The Limbaugh effect
Everything to play for
It's over
Bad news for al Qaeda. . .and for liberal talking points
The other guy is a professional too
Soft Power, behind the music
Let's sit this one out
Ready on day one -- to appease Israel's enemies
Clinging to fourth
Barack Obama and the uses of doubt
Michelle Obama sucks it up
Who's worse, Brad Smith or the New York Times?
Find the scandal, Part Two
Change you can disavow
Soft Power -- Max Boot responds
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
Obama's evasion
With friends like these
Find the Scandal
No olive branch this time
Soft Power, Part Five
Korb your good faith
Truly irreplaceable
irreplaceable
Tonight's Democratic debate
McCain's Veep tightrope
Huckabee for Senate?
Soft Power, Part Four
A centrist with no one to his left, Part Two
A centrist with no one to his left
Ed Morrissey joins Hot Air
Repeat offender
He's good for what ails you, and Mexico too
A graceless exit at William & Mary
Florence, here we come
Penitent-in-chief
Rep. Shadegg to conservatives, I'll stay
Behind the Gray Lady's drive-by
A fun fact about Michelle Obama
Soft Rice
Conservatives to Rep. Shadegg, please stay
Senator Obama clarifies his wife's views, and his own
As Wisconsin goes. . .?
Soft Power, Part Three
Pride cometh after the rise
"Just words," and borrowed ones at that
A Declaration Against Genocide and a test for campus organizations
The trend against trendiness
It was just like playing Brazil
President Bush, Africa's best friend
Oasis
Not serious about energy policy either
Romney set to endorse McCain
Walking in a winter wonderland
The Bush Doctrine today and tomorrow
No to strippers; yes to strippers, prostitutes and phone sex operators
Cage match in Congress
Yes, he can -- I hope
Momentum times ten
Huckabee recedes
A restoration at William & Mary
Remembering Busby's babes
What if they held an election and nobody came?
A McCain endorsement worth paying attention to
Soft Power, Part Two
It feels too good to stop
Will the Federalist Society succeed where the North Vietnamese failed?
CPAC honors Mark Tapscott
A gulity pleasure diminished
Back to the drawing board?
Identity politics run amok
McCain's CPAC speech
Romney's exit speech
A Romney exit strategy?
John McCain calling
Catching up with Tom Cotton
For the Republicans, mostly hazards
For the Democrats, hazards and opportunities
Calling California
Meanwhile on the Democratic side
Same old story?
I'm better in a court room setting
More in anger than in sorrow -- What a McCain presidency might look like
A Romney ad that goes too far
Fortunately, there's no more dueling
In other Dartmouth news
Dartmouth's president to step down
Why I'll vote for Romney
Identity politics
Who is that masked man?
Soft Power
The Romney blogger call
Something to keep in mind,
Ted Olson to endorse John McCain
John McCain may not remember it
The core difference between McCain and Romney
A surge of dishonesty
Doing the math
Edwards finally faces up to reality
The Washington Post rubs it in
McCain' s victory speech
What does it mean?
McCain's night?
Obama tries his hand at damage control -- and pandering
Simplified but not simple
A kind assassin
Lindsey Graham in a nutshell
John McCain's litmus test
Less than straight talk
Florida governor endorses McCain
Obama in a rout
Did he or didn't he?
More on Malley
It's the economy, stupid -- sort of
Audacity we can do without
Hard to smear
A tale of two phonies
Not quite straight talk
I miss Fred
Asset protection
A pair of flat-footed ties?
A revolt or just some push-back?
Fred Thompson withdraws
Mike Huckabee retools
At least he didn't take it personally
The real loser, Part Three
As Greenville County goes. . .
Fred Thompson, in or out?
South Carolina exit poll results, for what they're worth
Fear the turtle, at least today
Clinton looks like the winner in Nevada
Romney wins in Nevada
One last South Carolina poll,
Is the race in South Carolina tightening?
The Gang of 14 deal revisited
Norman Podhoretz in his own words
The Congress we pay for
"Rude and ugly"
Mac is back in South Carolina. . .but why?
"France responds to its friends"
The buck stops where?
Remembrance of embarrassments past
A mindless bureaucracy reacts
Trouble ahead for Hillary?
Back in the mix, and loving it
All Michigan polls are closed now,
Exit polling favors Romney
She's "sick and tired". . .
Mindless racial discrimination
That didn't take long
A "fraying" coalition, but in what sense?
Meanwhile in Michigan,
Good news for Fred Thompson. . .and John McCain
Linda Greenhouse blows smoke at her paper's ombudsman
The case against John McCain, Part Two
An odd and unhelpful thing
Charm and evasion, Part Five
Charm and evasion, Part Four
Charm and evasion, Part Three
Charm and evasion, Part Two
Charm and evasion -- the Huckabee way
The battles within the debate
Fred Thompson's call to arms in South Carolina
In other sports news
Meanwhile, in sports news
Looking ahead to Michigan
John McCain when times were bad
Senator McCain looks ahead
Has normal service been restored for the Democrats?
Dueling speeches
Does it come down to Hanover?
Phony alert
John McCain's victory speech
Meanwhile on the Democratic side. . .
Is it too early to speculate about the meaning of McCain's victory?
McCain wins in New Hampshire
Drudge reports
Been there, heard that
Change, American style
Crying in politics -- Dick Morris' take
Is there crying in politics?
The end of an era?
Sen. Clinton on the ropes
My impressions of tonight's debate
We'll know that Huckabee has truly arrived
Advantage Obama
The double-edged sword
Layer upon layer of deception
Recalculating
The bright side of last night
The real loser last night
A big night for Huckabee
On the ground in Iowa
Is Reagan Republicanism the "road to nowhere"?
The Iowa caucuses -- a pre-mortem
McCain turns to Michigan
Why is the defense department handing anti-military radicals the victory they couldn't win in court?
The Arlen Specter of the South weighs in on behalf of John McCain
Early inanity in 2008
Trial by jury in New Hampshire
What's the matter with Iowa?
Hail to the Redskins
Mike Huckabee's imaginary friends
Romney's point, Part Three
The leading "corrupt" politicians of the year
Our best remaining option in Pakistan
Mike Huckabee on the Bhutto assassination
Romney's point
Liberal and gutless
The courts follow the flag
The clock ate Huckabee's homework
Shocking news from the Washington Post
Wobbly ball no problem for this Scot
Toleration without relativism
A good thing comes to an end
They're everywhere
A case of clemency that's easy to explain
Another "out-of-touch elitist" dares to criticize Mike Huckabee
The "scandal" that's ridiculous
The scandal that wasn't
Washington Post fires latest front page salvo against Israel
The phony victimization of Mike Huckabee
An endorsement I wouldn't boast about
Let the debate rage on
More mush from the Huck
Man-of-the-year?
Another Arizona Republican throws in with Russ Feingold on "ethics" legislation
Does the Lieberman endorsement matter?
The Yak attack continues
More mush from the Huck
Is Romney becoming the choice of mainstream conservatives?
Say it ain't so, Linda
Say it ain't so, Roger! Part Two
A Power Line Christmas, Part Three
He's not a doctor of theology, he just plays one on tv
The odor of liberal name-calling, Part Two
Cup semi-finalists
A Romney-friendly scenario
A new Republican frontrunner?
Tacky and corrupt
Props to Huckabee
They had a debate in Iowa this afternoon
The "tacky" defense
The Dumond file -- what more did Huckabee need to know?
National Review endorses Mitt Romney
Preemptive surrender at the Defense Department
Waterboarding in action -- attacks disrupted, lives probably saved
Huckabee's foreign policy views -- too misguided to keep up with
Mike Huckabee's foreign policy rhetoric -- "the kind you'd expect from DailyKos bloggers"
There Waas no problem
Smoke gets in your eyes
Yak's hat trick
Key members of congress had no qualms about waterboarding in 2002
About those videos the CIA destroyed, Part Two
Waas the problem?
Mike Huckabee's Sunday school foreign policy
About those videos the CIA destroyed
Romney and religion, Part Two
Chip Reese, RIP
Is Mike Huckabee telling the truth about his role in the Dumond affair?
Inside the latest numbers from New Hampshire
Romney on religion
High confidence in low confidence
Reagan or Carter? Part Two
Boumediene v. Bush -- a preview
Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter
Iran's nuclear weapons program: Israel assesses
World doesn't end, Bush suffers blow
Mike Huckabee -- too moralistic to protect our national security
The Union Leader endorsement: How big a deal?
More desperate measures that may create desperate times
Thanks for the advice
Not-so-desperate times bring on desperate measures
Earl the Pearl night
The odor of liberal name-calling
Will the Union Leader endorse McCain?
A hostage taking in New Hampshire
Will Bush rebound in 2008?
Rep. Murtha finds that surge is working and falsely claims he believed it would
Damned if he doesn't, ignored if he does
A tangled web
A word from Bill Otis
Romney picks up a nice endorsement
While many of you suckers were watching the Republican presidential debate,
Can Huckabee win in Iowa?
Can Romney maintain his conservative support?
"Youths" riot again in France
A narcissist or a fool
Dubious achievement awards
Rudy's non-conservative attack rhetoric
A general the Democrats can embrace
Are these caucuses really necessary?
The Rudy-Romney dust-up; are they both right?
New poll shows Clinton trailing all five main Republican rivals
Heroic rhetoric
MittSpace
Everton on fire
Rachel Paulose, a liberal's view
All politics is national
Deluded realists
Beyond rescuing
Sarkozy in the saddle
A sense of entitlement
Back on the table?
Imagine that
Hillary Clinton -- forceful but too modest
Is Stanford violating the Solomon Amendment, Part Three
Dartmouth's latest insult to the intelligence of its alumni
Blaming America first for European fecklessness
The crucible
Clinton in trouble in Iowa
Undecided in New Hampshire
Reality trumps public opinion
Giving thanks to our troops
Is Stanford violating the Solomon Amendment? Part Two
Electability and ideology
Lawyers for Fred
Israel rescues England
The Chief Justice's tale
Two peas in a pod
Is Stanford violating the Solomon Amendment?
Fred Thompson, John McCain, and the trial of Bill Clinton
From a wild flower to an oak
Less appetitizing than ever
A human rights issue that flies under the radar screen
Why Mukasey had it right
McCain on his rivals
More stoical than his critics
The Federalist Society: A Quarter-Century of Debate
Meltdown or bump in the road?
Breakfast with Bolton
"Character is destiny"
Giuliani's little traveled path towards the nomination
The other straight talking McCain
On the ground in New Hampshire
Riding on the Straight Talk Express
Get on the bus
Much ado about not much
An important test in Iraq
Some dubious Churchill awards
Is Romney's dream scenario a winning scenario?
Surrealism and the crisis in Pakistan
"Realism" and the crisis in Pakistan
Faint echoes
The vision of Brian Lamb
The right kind of crackdown in Pakistan?
Democrats continue to gain in Virginia
Strange and stranger
The right man at the right moment?
Emotional distress we shouldn't be concerned about inflicting
Better numbers for Ron Paul
Whither Pakistan? Part Two
Decision day in Virginia
Better numbers for McCain
Whither Pakistan?
A modest strip tease
Whine and poses, Part Two
The days of whine and poses
Panic at Foggy Bottom
"Fed Up in South Carolina"
Inside the shrinking tent
A fig leaf for Lindsey Graham and John McCain
Giuliani envy?
I can't define it, but it's here to stay
The Incredible Shrinking Tent, Part Two
Third quarter economic growth
Lindsey Graham
The incredible shrinking tent
No memorandum necessary, Part Two
Maybe I have a thing for older women
Portrait of the blogger as a young man
A grown-up in the weak sense
The Phillips Foundation Fellowship
Romney on course
No memorandum necessary
A bluff that needs to be called, Part Two
We are starstruck, we are tanning
A bluff that needs to be called
Is FISA worth preserving?
Ah yes, I remember it well
East Berlin by the James
Now that was a frivolous party
A frivolous party has a frivolous debate
The Thomas spot
McCain's blogger call and reflections on 2000
Better late than never
Dream on
Southwick confirmed
Do you remember the Jena 6 story?
Dream or Nightmare? Part Two
The pork dishonor role
The man who would be dean
A five horse race?
Dream or nightmare?
So that's how Arafat did it
What me worry?
Not just sour grapes
A sleeping giant wakes up
Reid it and weep
An illusion becomes more difficult to subscribe to
Truth-challenged Washington Post reporter strikes again
Rudy makes his case to conservative values voters
Referee hands derby to shite
Is there a future in defeatism?
Is that a threat or an over-promise?
Transforming America, for better and for worse
The Northwest Baghdad awakening
SCHIP veto override fails in House
Dance with the four that brung ya, Part Two
Unfit to legislate; unfit to lead
The limits of consistency
Stirrings in Massachusetts?
Dance with the four that brung ya
Getting a big head courtesy of PBS
It's your money, for now
Media alert
Defeatism run amok
Well-in, Stubbsie
Unfit to legislate; unfit to lead
The limits of consistency
Stirrings in Massachusetts?
Dance with the four that brung ya
Getting a big head courtesy of PBS
It's your money, for now
Media alert
Defeatism run amok
Well-in, Stubbsie
Resistance for the wrong reason
Not out of the woods
Deconstructing Gu
Power sharing and its discontents
The Shia awakening
It really could be worse
"Meanies," "hypocrites," and the infantilization of politics
Grounds for optimism about Iraq -- the center seems to hold
Get on the bus
Giuliani expands his foreign policy team
This day in murderous thug history, Part Two
Hillary Clinton, centrist uniter -- who knew?
He's number one
The line-item veto debate, who got it right?
A faux "gotcha" moment
Giuliani soars
The west fades in Holland, Part Two
This day in murderous thug history
It's showtime, Part Two
The west fades in Holland
Credibility assessments, Washington Post style
A decay not likely to be reversed
A skeptical environmentalist looks at global warming
It's showtime, folks
Blackwater demagoguery
This day in baseball history
Not too pleased
Everton's European scare
The third party conundrum
A case not made
But don't question their patriotism
Mitt Romney and the Supreme Court
Domenici to bow out
The Washington Post -- more interested in influencing events in Iraq than in reporting them
Hard times for al Qaeda in Iraq
Well done, Mr. President
Dartmouth sued by its Alumni Association
Common sense as a school of thought
Tom Harkin -- an odd choice for attack dog
HillaryCare, a post-cursor
An evening with Justice Thomas
AnnRomney.com
A collapse of historic proportion
Who killed the grown-up?
UCLA violates California's ban on racial discrimination
A phony convergence
He wasn't supposed to take it personally
Best line of the day
More good news from Iraq
"Regrets" that should not be regretted
A perfect storm of disgrace
The shortest answer Joe Biden has ever given
Fred Thompson and the evangelicals
Hillary runs out the clock
From Little Rock to Jena
Yup, that must be what Ahmadinejad meant to say
Can McCain expect a Kerry-like revival?
Should the government pick energy winners and losers?
SCHIP update
What the left has in mind for the Supreme Court
HillaryCare, a precursor
Is Dan Rather's lawsuit a forgery?
An RFK all-star team
What a drag
My life list
Mitt's a hit in Michigan
A bridge too far
A better summer for Iraq makes for a bad "Iraq summer"
Yom Kippur as "networking bonanza"
A Supreme Court term to loathe?
Senate condemns Moveon.org ad
A one-woman wrecking crew, Part Two
A glutton for punishment
Never let the facts stand in the way of the usual leftist snark
Cheney reponds to Greenspan
Getting off the shuttle to nowhere
Sustain the surge's success, don't barter it away
Ice this
Why not the best? Part Two
Our pals the PA
A word from Senator DeMint
A veto we're unlikely to see
Why not the best?
Is religious-based resistance to Romney the tip of an iceberg?
So crazy it just might work
Another one-of-a-kind old fool
The Beltway -- it's not a highway, it's a state of mind
There's no fool like an old fool
Taking the wrong side in Brussels
The $64 million question
This day in baseball history
Bush's speech -- anti-climactic, and that's a good thing
Everything to play for
Feeling it
Why not, indeed?
Hillary Clinton channels Moveon.org
9/11 for children
A discount for slander?
The Democrats, there's no pleasing them
Sorosleaze
Moveon.org hits the bottom
Gripped by fear
I, Rudy
The first shoe drops at Dartmouth
The McCain mini-surge
Hagel's had enough
Iraq in context
Another reason why we write about Dartmouth
Cautions of a conservative
A frustrating evening
Iran's "unimportant" terrorist training camps
The Chicago way
He's Baaaaack!! Part Two
Facts worth preserving
The return of "The Gravedigger"
A punching bag still
Organized labor and the bad old days
It's not that slow of a news day
Bush in Iraq, Part Two
Disappointment at the Washington Post, Part Two
From a niche to a battleground
On the outside looking in
An updated version of a sorry phenomenon
That didn't take long
The lighter side of Baghdad
Wind reduction in the forecast
Hating the "pig" but loving the pork
War as bean counting
20 percent left behind
The next AG, Part Three
The next AG, Part Two
Friendly rivals. . .this week
Disappointment at the Washington Post
A bad strategy, though I can't think of a better one
The next AG
A spectrum of constitutional thinking
Should he stay or should he go?
1688 and all that
Watch this space
The system works, or so we'll pretend
The Washington Post fabricates a "contradiction"
The Fred Thompson niche -- real but shrinking
Racial discrimination remains unpopular, except among our elites
Guilty!
A "teaching moment" at the University of Maryland
The Israel-Hezbollah war, what went wrong?
A touch of class
A master of the possible, Part Two
On with the show
Rove derangement syndrome, Part Two
A master of the possible
Well-qualified, but not an American idol
Wishful thinking disguised as conventional wisdom
Pork and fake geography, a Democrat menu
A start we'll take
The limits of mindless partisan finger-pointing
A new variation on an old story
Woman against boys
Beat the drum and hold the phone
Will the Dems convert success into defeat?
On Iraq, no better friend
On property rights, no better friend
History has been made
How big a deal is 756? You be the judge
The Iraq conundrum, Part Two
When only bad news is newsworthy
The difference between a liberal and a leftist
The Iraq conundrum
Correction on the Senate FISA vote
Why didn't anyone else think of that?
Defeatists in retreat? Part Two
The House does the right thing too
Rudy Giuliani and "The man on whom nothing was lost"
The Senate does the right thing, finally
A New Hampshire holiday
Will Congressional Dems close up shop without fixing FISA?
Southwick advances
Literary license
A debut remembered
Senator McCain looks back at the "gang of 14" and the immigration fight
Roberts derangement syndrome
Tina Brown on Justice Roberts' seizure
Good news for Giuliani in New Hampshire
War, Democrat style
When a mostly full cupboard is not enough
A fair and politic assessment
The latest power play at Dartmouth
Still young, and oh so accomplished
Judge Southwick as "super-precedent"
A liberal's futile advice to Senate Democrats
Defending Alberto Gonzales -- why we bother
Is the tide turning in Washington?
What did Sen. Feingold know and when did he know it?
Iraq -- soccer champions of Asia
Is this investigation really necessary?
Pulling together "to bring happiness to the Iraqi people"
The next debate -- some preliminary thoughts
Boning up for the next debate
Senate Dems slander a good man, Part Two
Senate Dems slander a good man
No verdict required on Thompson the lawyer
Good news from Colorado
Attacking Gonzales with non-denial denials
Al Qaeda. . .in Iraq
Reform the reform, Senator McCain's take
The Republican "short-list" for the Supreme Court
Reform the reform
Running less and enjoying it more
Tough stuff, Part Two
Top down or bottom up?
Front-runner , no; serious contender, yes
Will the "empire" strike back
Tough stuff
A new era begins
Strangers on a train
The new Nixon, Part Two
The straight talk express
Plame tossed out of court
Pseudo-analysis from the Washington Post
The trade secrets of great souls
The new Nixon?
The haircut narrative, Part Two
Giuliani's bench, Part Three
Giuliani's bench, Part Two
The haircut narrative
Failing to play the part
Not a pretty story
Everything still up for grabs
Brazil still has Argentina's number
CNN's shell game
Is it war or just noise?
Dartmouth at a crossroads
At the copa
Much ado about not much, Part Two
Today's McCain blogger call
Much ado about not much
Lag the dog
The Democratic "short-list" for the Supreme Court
Is there a third way in Iraq? Part Two
Good-bye to all that
For me, a must read
Is there a third way in Iraq?
Five overboard at the McCain campaign
Perfection at the highest level
The pork index
A moment of untruth
Is this fight really necessary?
Undoing the damage in Iran
"Yardstick-shaving" -- the adinistration's latest offense
Bush fatigue, Republican style
Who says there's no such thing as a stupid question?
Hard to please
In Virginia, an unfavorable trend
E.J. enraged, again
Heh
Reversal in the NSA surveillance case
Thinking about the barely thinkable
The limits of arguing from Sarkozy
Fun with numbers
A balance best maintained
A central question
Summer stock
President Bush makes a good call
Border enforcement is Congress's problem, Chertoff suggests
You can say that again
Getting Chamberlain, Churchill, and Bush wrong
The race-based school assignment cases -- Justice Breyer's dissent
A blogging opportunity
An odd case makes good law
The race-based school assignment cases -- the irony
Sloganeering masquerading as analysis
The race-based school assignment cases -- the MSM coverage
The race-based school assignment cases -- Justice Stevens' dissent
The race-based school assignment cases -- Justice Kennedy's opinion
The race-based school assignment cases -- Chief Justice Roberts' opinion
The reticent social engineer
Shades of Allen Freer
Counting to 50
A defeat for race-based school assignments
Youneverknow
Counting to 60
"Fairness," liberal Democrat style
Rising to the occasion, Part Three
Mad as hell and hoping not to take it
Senate invokes cloture
Rising to the occasion, Part Two
The conspiracy to improve Dartmouth
Rising to the occasion
When second best is good enough
How conservative is Fred Thompson?
How not to reform health care
An old debate revived (for some reason)
McConnell considers his options
Reflections on an alleged end of an era
Something of a banner year
Where bias and cluelessness intersect
Thanks for the memories
Some Sunni tribes turn against al Qaeda in Baghdad
The two Michaels
The designated pinch-hitter
Nancy Pelosi -- Jimmy Carter's heir apparent
Dissing James Baker isn't dissing one's country
The family porkbuster
Deserves got nothing to do with it
Reinventing the nanny state
Bad South Carolina news for John McCain
Back in business
David Beckham -- the legend grows
Pre-emptive defeat
The Fourth Circuit -- going, going, gone?
Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth, Part Four
Flawed humanism
They only look dead
Consider me confidently not confident
The "reality-based" community tries to come to terms with reality
Feinstein strikes out
Blogging with Dan Rather
Too little, too late?
Who's on second?
Justice Department disserved public; Washington Post disserved readers
A living constitution or a suicide pact? Part Two
A living constitution or a suicide pact?
Media alert
Richard Rorty, R.I.P.
Post-surge Iraq
Trying to prevent a bad joke from going too far
Presdient Bush plays in Manhattan (for one week only)
Crunch time in Baghdad as September approaches
Trading up
Dead or just stalled?
A nice pick-up for Fred
The sidelines for Newt?
Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth, Part Three
Ideology, moi?
A different approach to freeing Lewis Libby
The true monetary cost of immigration reform
Nice work, if you can get it
Are we overthinking these debates?
The client from hell
Much ado about nothing?
Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth, Part Two
I'm not proud of it,
Fred on the stump
Should abortion doom Giuliani's campaign?
Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth
La creme de la Prem -- 2007
Buyer's remorse
Another go in Durham?
An Evening with Fred Thompson, Part Two
Is there any substitute for creating a Palestinian state?
Immediate jaundice
A campaign swing with Mitt Romney
When in L.A. . .
An evening with Fred Thompson
Lacrosse's glass ceiling
The latest on Fred Thompson
Mitt Romney's surge
Democracy and distrust
Rotten to their core
Destiny picks its own darlings
Not just rehash, Part Two
Not just rehash, Part One
High drama in Baltimore
Conservatives demonized by unlikely source
Seeking a title but not "vindication"
Duke vs. Cornell, a preview
It takes one to know one
Monica Goodling speaks, Part Three
Monica Goodling speaks, Part Two
Monica Goodling speaks
No way out?
So corrupt it hurts
Idol efforts to combat malaria
Romney hits the right note
A blogger fouls out
No meltdown but plenty of erosion
Romney gains major traction in Iowa
Curses
Duke storms into final four
Immigration linkage, real and imaginary
You go to "war" with the supporters you have
Mad Jack Murtha strikes again
Misunderstanding Republicans, Part Two
1396
The road to the final four
Misunderstanding Republicans, as usual
I'm reliably informed
A big change in Paris
Nothing succeeds like success
About tonight's Republican debate
Stranger than fiction?
Republican "hypocrites" refuse to live down to E.J. Dionne's expectations
The boy's a bit special
Big tent, plenty of clowns
A dilemma Barack Obama is unlikely to address
Assist, Lieberman
In a relegation scrap bet on the Evertonians
A message to the Republican contenders
Duke advances
More laughs from the U.N.
U.S. spies to branch out
The Blair legacy
"Undo" influence?
What's news? Part Two
What Obama's slump tells us
Where is President Bush when the Democrats need him?
Defense Secretary implores Democratic Congress not to undermine the health and welfare of the U.S. military
The surge -- too little too late?
Mind boggling
Addition by subtraction
Never let the facts stand in the way of politicizing a natural disaster
A word to Dartmouth alumni
Why Demography may not be political destiny
Lest words lose their meaning, Part Two
Sexual politics
All profile, no courage
May madness
French lessons
Better them than us
Tilting our way
On a gagne
Europe here we come
Less is more
A second look at last night's debate
Desperate times call for desperate rhetoric
The Gurus, sort of
The real Dana Milbank resurfaces
Some impressions of tonight's debate. . .
An England-Everton legend is laid to rest
The fix on tonight's debate
ENDA common sense
Sarkozy closes in
Battle Royal
What to make of those polls?
Over-lawyered in the war on terrorism
Sarkozy stands firm
Will Royal's opportunism sink Sarkozy?
Terrorism by the numbers
ACC Champs
Still a maverick but no longer useful
The Dems' Debate, a postcript
Lest words lose their meaning
What if we leave Iraq?
A switch in time?
America: The Last Best Hope
Time for a pinch hitter?
A look back at Yeltsin
David Halberstam's useful working premise
My first ballgame
Preemptive rhetoric, preemptive surrender
Finally, a compelling reason why Gonzales should stay
Super Sarko
At the circus
John Edwards' bad hair day
Blood sport and its enablers
Supreme Court upholds ban on partial birth abortion
Washington Post hack columnist alert
Duke keeps on rolling
Where do we find such men?
Gonzales hearing postponed
An eroding position?
Tragedy in Blacksburg
Absurd thoughts from a progressive thought leader
What to expect from the Gonzales hearing
War as a balancing act
A lesson learned too late?
Turnabout is not fair play
Bill Otis unbound
The Washington Post tries to damn Romney with praise
Swann's way
Better news for McCain
Let the healing process end
The Washington Post spins intel
The Fred factor
Heading to the wire in France
Imus is out
Are the Senate Dems pulling a fast one on earmark reform?
Thompson and Gingrich; apples and oranges
Fred Thompson health update
The theatre of dreams
The Huffing Post, Part Two
The Huffing Post
Professor Obama
Tragedy from the liberal MSM perspective
Nothing to do with apartheid
Duke keeps rolling
The limits of preemptive surrender
The surge -- a new front
Evangelicals at the Justice Department? There must be something wrong
Fred Thompson serves up red meat at red state
An Everton rarity
How much contact did there have to be between al Qaeda and Saddam for the U.S. to be legitimately concerned?
Running for president is hard work
The good economic news continues
Nancy Pelosi's admirers
Viva Denmark
House Dems declare war on "war on terror"
Rudy does Iowa
Moral equivalence, NPR style
Seared but false?
The Diane Feinstein conflict of interest story
The wisdom of Chris Matthews
Did McCain approach Kerry?
The case for Rudy Giuliani
A heckler, not a reporter
Trivial pursuit
"Working" in what sense?
A phrase that has not outlived its usefulness
The sleeping giant awakens
A public intellectual returns to the public
The perils of cronyism
"Why didn't you guys defend yourselves?"
A good time
The latest on the teapot tempest
Did McCain want to switch parties in 2001?
Rumsfeld and Gonzales
Should he stay or should he go
Repeal McCain-Feingold
How meaningful is the Obama-Tribe connection?
The un-Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson
Duke wins "the game that wasn't played"
Fred Thompson for president?
What country does Zbigniew Brzezinski live in?
The columnist who cried "hypocrisy"
The latest on Alberto Gonzales
The President strikes the right balance
"Mere religious worship" doesn't cut it
Pork and defeat
News Flash -- Ambition Spotted in Washington
Domenici giveth, Domenici taketh away
Sad news from John and Elizabeth Edwards
The mother of all employment cases
Hillary vs. Obama -- the latest round
E.J. Dionne's "morning in America"
The offshoot of a non-scandal
There's only one Andy Johnson
The "prescient" Al Gore
Whither the weather
Buffaloed in Buffalo
The silly season, and what to do about it
A non-column on a non-scandal
The Plame game
The New Republic's variant of Bush-derangement syndrome
The "scandal" that refuses to grow
Reid resolution fails
Notes on a non-scandal
Apocalypse now?
A bad loser
The revenge of Michael Dukakis
More on a non-scandal
"Thought leader" denounces propaganda
Misunderstanding Republicans
There is something profoundly right about Joe Lieberman
About those fired U.S. Attorneys
Totally liberal
Overrated?
We've got trouble, right here in Rapid City
How the west was lost?
Do the Dems represent Moqtada al-Sadr's best hope?
The sleeping giant
Jimmy Carter's dubious whining
Jimmy Carter clears things up
Obey apologies for yelling at liberal idiots, blames Bush
John Edwards -- the kowtow continues
That song, that bloody song
Has Jim Hoagland lost his mind?
Non sequitur of the day
Don't forget to swear her in
Never let the facts stand in the way of appeasing an interest group
Are you now or have you ever been. . .?
Has the wren chapel cross been "saved"
Conservatives can overdo the Bush-bashing thing too
Wren cross restored to chapel -- behind glass
Is it a religious war?