Bob Woodward's offering Barack Obama ten rules of thumb for a successful President. Funny thing.  Woodward forgot to put one key item on the list. Early in your first term and then again just before you're up for re-election, try to get a highly regarded, powerful and influential editor at the ...

Unless the aliens landed before noon Tuesday and he donned his old flight suit, jumped into the cockpit of an F-14 conveniently parked on the White House lawn, kept fueled up and with rockets armed for eight years for just such an emergency, and flew off into the skies to shoot down all the flying s...

Dear Mr Beinart, Serious Person: You want us to admit the Surge worked? Depends on what you mean by "worked." If by "the Surge worked" you mean it curtailed much of the violence and carnage unleashed by our unnecessary, badly planned, and undermanned invasion and the stupidity and ineptitude of our ...

There was never a golden age of American journalism. Never a time when the Press reported everything without fear or favor, when it was journalists' collective mission to speak truth to power, when the news wasn't a mix of gossip and scandal mongering interrupted by "heartwarming" human interest sto...

I learn from Smart Tom, Tom Bozzo of Angry Bear, that Dumb Tom, Thomas Friedman, of the New York Times, thinks we should let the auto industry fail because we all shop at eBay these days and Ford cars come in other colors besides black. Or something like that. Smart Tom writes: Friedman doesn't ...

Friend of mine who's worried about my blood pressure thinks I've been writing too much about politics lately.  She advises that I switch subjects for a while and write about some topic that I enjoy, one that relaxes me.  She suggested I write about naked actresses. Yes, that's right. ...

It's pretty amusing to observe the attacks on Scott McClellan on FOX News: He's a disgruntled employee, a traitor, why didn't he quit earlier if he felt that way and that he is speaking out now for personal gain, in various iterations from the various White House loyalists who seem to be the only gu...

The AP's Calvin Woodward declaring the era of the Big Clintons over: There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. Bill, it could be said, was born to run. Running became Hillary's destiny, too... Soon, though, there will be no Clinton running for pres...

Laura Ingraham's Talking Points Memo on the Factor last Monday night has haunted me. In it she twisted Barack Obama's words from a speech in Oregon: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are goi...

Journalism, real journalism, is both hard work and high art. Journalists, real journalists, spend their working days doing the jobs of three people---the reporter, the scholar, and the writer. As reporters, journalists, real journalists, hit the pavement, work the phones, get out in the world, actua...