That was fun. The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Red Sox and send all the obnoxious fans of Red Sox Nation into the winter with tears in their bloodshot eyes. TBS rose to the occasion, with a crew that let the game unfold on its own and commented with...

In the New York Times, Adam Nagourney identifies "race" as one of the six factors that could prevent the election of Barack Obama. The others, as paraphrased by Mark Halperin, are "(1) not everyone who has recently registered as a Democrat may vote on Election Day; (2) the...

Reports are that Palin plans to bring up Biden's vote against the First Gulf War to show bad foreign policy judgment. This was a problem John Kerry never successfully overcame.

May I suggest a response?

"Yes, I voted against the war. This was partly because I thought that...

Among the many details, actually more like major foundational points than details, that have not been disclosed in the huge socialism for the banks program is the price that the government is going to pay for the "troubled' assets that these Einsteins bought.

If the problem, as "Hank" Paulson repeated...

I'm sorry, but the theories elsewhere on this site that Hillary Clinton showed "exemplary grit and class" or that "it is no longer up to her" are preposterous.

Hillary managed to make voting for Obama sound like taking Cod Liver Oil rather than like following the most inspirational...

NBC means "Never Broadcast Currently." Having practiced in June by delaying the telecast of Roger Federer's Wimbledon semi-final for six hours (nine on the West Coast), NBC now is embargoing many of the most important events and running around the world, trying to prevent anyone from posting any video...

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Don Imus is being newly and wrongly accused of a racist comment. Since I have been entertained mightily by Imus for thirty years, I am happy that this time I can stand up for him.

In the late 70s, I heard a cut from Don Imus' "1200...

Update: Although he did cut in with some good questions, Stephanopoulos basically presided over a Clinton pep rally. None of the personal issues were raised and Clinton completely controlled the choreography. George was left sitting in his chair while Hillary paraded around the dais. It would be interesting to...

Poor Tim Russert. No longer the most simple-minded questioner on the block. Surprisingly surpassed by Stephanopoulos and Gibson with their hand fed questions from Sean Hannity.

What to do?

I know. Let's lie and accuse Barack Obama of not putting his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance!...

CNN.com, where I watched Obama and Clinton square off last night, ran interstitial news pieces instead of commercials. One of the features was graphic results from "people meters" operated by a small group of Democrats watching the debate on the SMU campus in Dallas.

These are the handheld devices...

In a battle of Hall of Fame egos, Roger Clemens and the members of the House Governmental Oversight Committee started the exhibition season Wednesday. They participated in a hearing that, much like a a spring training game, served little useful purpose, but was fun to watch.

Clemens misguidedly wanted...

David Shuster and Katie Couric have opened windows on Hillary Clinton's character and the view is not pretty.

By speaking on cable television in the way that everyone regularly speaks on the Internet, Shuster gave us a preview of speech control in Hillaryland, where no one can take a...

The motivation for the two term limit in the 22nd Amendment is that enough, even of a good thing, is enough. Given that the Clinton years were not an unmitigated boon, the electorate understandably has qualms about electing the Clinton family to a third term.

The more Hillary touts...

A kafuffle has broken out between Yale Constitutional Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld and self-righteous right-wing blogger "Simon" over whether Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey said (1) the president has the right to violate a Constitutional law if he believes that he is entitled to do so in...

Just like last year, NBC is preventing tennis fans living outside the Eastern time zone from seeing significant portions of Wimbledon. Today it means that those of us in the West will miss the Serena Williams vs. Justine Henin match that is supposed to be on at 10 a.m....

Monica Goodling, the 33-year-old Republican apparatchik whose lack of qualifications and excess of zealotry have come to symbolize the U.S. Attorney scandal, testifies today before the House Judiciary Committee.

Two months ago, Goodling's attorneys set out to prove to the skeptics, who initially scoffed at her claimed right to...

The canard that San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam was fired for weakness on immigration prosecutors rather than for pursuing Republican corruption was exposed further Sunday by Senator Chuck Schumer on Meet the Press and by Senator Dianne Feinstein on Face the Nation. Schumer and Feinstein both offered evidence that...

It is good to see the wing-nuts organizing a circular firing squad. Today, right-wing bloggers and a right-wing Congressman are failing to get their stories straight on the firing of San Diego United States Attorney Carol Lam.

A post by right-wing blogger Patterico (linked to by Tom Maguire...

Sacramento attorney Troy Ellerman has agreed to plead guilty to leaking the BALCO grand jury transcript to San Francisco Chronicle writers Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada. His plea bargain allows a sentence of up to two years in prison.

The Justice Department trumpeted this triumph in a press...

Art Buchwald died yesterday at 81. Buchwald was a relic to many younger HuffPo readers, but there was a time when many turned to Buchwald much in the way they now turn to Maureen Dowd or Doonesbury.

I write to commend one Buchwald column written in 1984 entitled "The...