By • Jun 02,2008

Losers on the Run

Sonny is right to accredit reports of al Qaeda´s timely demise as well-deserved good news. But it´s as good as occasion as any to exercise our contrarian muscles for the...

By • Jun 02,2008

Nightfall

M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, The Happening, hits theaters next weekend, and publicity is ramping up. There’s a piece in the New York Times today about the mercurial director and...

By • May 31,2008

Gerson's Straw Men

We all know that Michael Gerson’s theoretical compassion cashes out in practice as a seemingly neverending string of tendentious and condescending attacks on mean old Republicans. But who, exactly, are...

By • May 30,2008

The turning tide

I asked for more on Al Qaeda in Iraq being on the run, and Pete Wehner delivers over at Contentions, highlighting a WaPo interview with CIA director Michael Hayden. He...