What was The American Thinker thinking when it published the following bit of prose?:  "As Obama took steps toward the United States Senate he found a very powerful sugar daddy who would help fund his rise: George Soros. The billionaire hedge fund titan began...

Barbara Ehrenreich, writing in The Nation:  "When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still...

My commentary on recent developments in the Ron Paul campaign -- and an addendum here. An editorial note: I did not choose the title.

As usual, Matt Yglesias sums it all up in very few words: "John McCain says that "anyone who worries about how long we're in Iraq does not understand the military." On the contrary, it seems to me that McCain doesn't understand diplomacy, Iraq, foreign policy,...

In the Maryland primary yesterday, Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest was defeated by a pro-war challenger. Gilchrest voted for the Iraq War in 2003, but later said he regretted the decision. Gilchrest later criticized Bush's handling of the war and became one of...

Speaking before the American Bar Association, former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, went against most of his fellow Republican politicians, at least on the subject of torture: "And I believe, unlike others in the administration, that waterboarding was, is,...