The sorrows of duty, like the heat of the sun, have scorched your heart
By • Oct 04,2008

Tradeoffs? What tradeoffs?

Campbell Brown at CNN thinks the candidates need to be more forthcoming about how they’d pare back federal spending, now that we’ve plunked down $850 billion on the bailout. “Cut...

By • Oct 03,2008

Throwing in the Towel?

Is Charles Krauthammer calling it for Obama? Sure sounds like it: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a “second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”...

By • Oct 03,2008

Irony alert

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon’s diary was recovered from the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia in a town called Palestine.