I've been covering the AIPAC spy case since CBS broke the story of US secrets stolen by top officials of Israel's number one Washington lobbyist, way back in late summer of 2004. Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, AIPAC honcho Steven Rosen, and the Lobby's number...
Matt Yglesias captures the spirit of John McCain as the essence of militarism: "For McCain, a certain culture of honor, militarism, and nationalism are their own reward. The military is to be celebrated and supported not for what it does but for what it is. Thus, a...
I certainly wouldn't call him the worst candidate, but does anyone else in American politics today so perfectly embody the welfare-warfare ethos as Mike Huckabee? I mean, sure, some of the other candidates want to be the Führer, but Huckabee seems as if he's really...
Don't believe the spin about Giuliani writing Iowa off. Nick Bradley looks at campaign appearances vs. votes and finds that Giuliani came in a dismal sixth place, with only 4,000 votes for his 35 appearances. Antiwar and pro-civil liberties candidate Ron Paul, on the...
Hillary Clinton has made the campaign's focal point as her "experience." But she doesn't seem to see facts as important. Yesterday I noted Mike Huckabee's excuse for not being aware of the Iran NIE report. Hillary Clinton is under the impression that President...
In an interview yesterday with the Iowa Quad City Times, GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended his ignorance of the Iran NIE report release when asked about it on the campaign trail: “The point I’m trying to make is that, on the campaign trail,...
It may come as no shock that Ron Paul has been excluded from the upcoming presidential debate in New Hampshire sponsored by FOX News. They said the "trailer" where they plan to hold the debate was not big enough to fit all the candidates. (However, Ron Paul is a...
Contrary to what I say in this morning’s column, it looks increasingly likely that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the work, not of Al Qaeda, but of elements within the Pakistani government itself. Not necessarily Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but of a faction...
This new Ron Paul ad is absolutely, outrageously, tragically wrong: “No visas for students from ‘terrorist nations’� Rarely has a more ignorant proposal been advanced – and it is made even worse by the fact that this is Ron Paul we’re talking about. To...
Looks like I spoke too soon: in Friday’s column: I wrote that Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer are being dropped by Time magazine, because Americans are "done with pundits like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer who were dead wrong about the war, and whom...
