Updated. Has it even been established that the guy who took Michelle Obama's picture with his cell phone camera when she was serving lunch at Miriam's Kitchen was homeless or there for the free meal? Jesse Taylor and Alex Koppleman, among others, have explained to the self-righteously indignant why ...

Memory is a tricky thing and I can understand how three and a half years later Bobby Jindal might "remember" being in room while the sheriff was on the phone yelling about how the bureaucrats were getting in the way of helping people in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. What doesn't make sens...

You gotta love the way the mayor of Lansing shouts this smug, fat-faced Fox Stooge down. The New York Post editorial the stooge quotes is based on several lies, the main one being that autoworkers actually take home seventy dollars an hour.  That figure, long ago exposed as a con, includes the ...

I liked how Barney Frank went after Jim "Let It All Come Crashing Down Around Our Ears Just Give My Friends Their Tax Breaks" De Mint last week. "No tax break built a road," Frank told him.  "No tax cut puts a cop on the street." Good stuff to keep in mind.  Important.  What's also im...

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 ...

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 ...