John Kerry’s statement about education and military service may be a political liability to the power-lusting Dems, but journalists (most of whom vote Democratic) aren’t politicians, they’re the busy bees of the information age, and they should perform their jobs…
Yesterday I got a fundraising letter from Bill Clinton, on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. It’s three pages long and begins, thumpingly, by saying “The next five weeks are critical for America and the world. We’ve got to…
Admitting failure is a healthy sign. Talking about “growing doubts about the Iraq war” for three years running, and issuing reports that “We have just a few months to correct the problems,” again and again and again, is to be…
A study by public-health researchers at Johns Hopkins says that estimates of deaths in Iraq since we did that nation the great service of bringing them democracy are way low, that the likelihood is 600,000 have died. Though they say…
Chris Matthews is on fire these days. Joe Lieberman’s loss has freed him to offer pitiless critiques of Democrats who voted for the war. Last night he said that they knew it was a bad decision in 2002 but went…
The abduction of Jill Carroll in Baghdad in January, along with the murder of her interpreter, Alan Enwiya, was an important event. Her ordeal demonstrated that the Islamic world has friends in the WestÂpeople like Jill Carroll, people who went…
In his column yesterday on the Lamont victory in Connecticut, Times columnist David Brooks took up his new causeÂsaving the Democratic PartyÂand said that Joe Lieberman, and not the “net roots,” has the wisdom to see that “The civilized world…
Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews gave LA congresswoman Jane Harman political cover by allowing her to sound off against the Bush Administration on Iraq. She blamed it for “enormous mistakes” in the conduct of the war and for taking…
Last night on the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks defended Sen. Joe Lieberman from attacks on the internet. Brooks is an astute and insightful writer, but he is too often indirect, and last night he abandoned any duty to be specific:…