I’m looking at the Huckster saying that people who are wealthy and those who just happened to be dirt poor should get the same health care. So, if he’s nominated, will the Republicans change their name to the Republican Communist ...

I’m watching the Iowa GOP debate, and they’re showing videos: Rudy’s asked how he gets information, and he mentions his infamous call-in radio show. A mistake (just follow the link). He’s also defending his obvious attempt to obscure the public funding of guarding his ...

What does it say about Governor Huckabee that, in answer to a question about what he would do to improve American education, he answered “I’d unleash weapons of mass instruction”? Why talk about a benign activity—passing down knowledge from one generation to another—in ...

Is Alan Keyes crazy? On drugs? Both? He just interrupted the moderator in the Iowa debate and demanded to be allowed to address a question that had been addressed to Ron Paul. I’m sorry, but his demeanor is so contrived, so frenetic, and so out of control, that he’s a walking ...

The last remnants of authentic conservatism over at National Review are struggling mightily against the Neocon takeover of that time-honored institution: when the Frumkin published his attack on antiwar conservatives and libertarians, there was dissent in the ranks, or so I hear, but it was ...

The AIPAC spy trial has been delayed once again. It was supposed to start on January 16: the new trial date is April 29. I’ve been covering this story since it first broke—in the summer of 2004. Briefly, the Pentagon’s top Iran analyst, Larry Franklin, was caught handing over ...

I’m watching Tim Russert rip Rudy apart on “Meet the Press”: during the course of an exchange over why Hizzoner’s then-girlfriend was getting police protection before anyone knew she was his girlfriend—Rudy’s answer: it was the NYPD’s decision, not mine - ...

He’s baaaaaaaaaaaaack!: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be ...

I just returned from a Ron Paul for President rally at the University of California at Berkeley, and I have to tell you that it was quite an experience. Here we were in Sproul Plaza, the historic epicenter of campus protest, with nary a sign of politics of any sort except for the Campus Democrats ...

The first phase of the smear campaign against Ron Paul was all about “spamming”—sending unsolicited email with pro-Paul messages. This was and is a lot of malarkey, as spammers notoriously glom on to anything that is of current interest and more likely to get the recipient to open ...