Al Franken does not like being sued for defamation. Who does? I hate to see political mud-slinging turned into lawsuits, even if there are plenty of people who will make the argument that if something were really a lie -- e.g., …
The Columnist Manifesto has decided that new reports that Bush volunteered to go to Vietnam do not require that he reconsider his take on Bush the "draft dodger." Why? He just doesn't believe it: Why hasn’t the Whi…
The NYT examines how the McCain-Feingold law has successfully changed the ways of corporations and labor unions, who used to seek political influence through soft money contributions to the political parties and are not too inte…
Here's what I'd like to read about the 2004 election: an analysis of what happened written ten years from now. Anything written today is part of the events themselves. Writing today, you're caught up in the event of t…
The NYT runs a long piece about John Kerry's early political years. I was interested in the material about his first wife, of whom we've heard very little: Later that spring [in 1970], he married Julia Stimson Thorne in …
What are we to think about "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," a documentary film directed by an old friend of John Kerry's (George Butler), that is being distributed by a Canadian company (ThinkFilm)? The …
Somehow my effort to read the NYT this morning got stalled in the middle of Frank Rich 's explication of how Iraq is like Vietnam. It's printed on a page with a big, color illustration of a galloping horse that is kicking…
John Kerry's long avoidance of interviews had gotten to be awfully conspicuous, and he finally submits. Time's Karen Tumulty receives the favor of his responses . Let's see how he does. Much of the time he robotically…
I wasn't really properly simulblogging the Convention last night, and I'm told that I had my priorities straight . Yikes! Going over to Vodkapundit for that last link, I saw this new poll information . Wow! That's dis…