Charles Krauthammer, not content with having been proven deadly wrong in his worldview of many years, learning nothing from the bloody disasters of the policies he so aggressively promoted, now attacks Barack Obama for suggesting America should talk with enemies as well as friends.

Our first and last neoconservative president, George W. Bush, is the lead witness for the prosecution in the case whose verdict is the death of neoconservatism.

Never has any philosophy been proven so wrong, so fatal, so disastrous for our country and so deadly for our troops as the views expounded by neoconservative theoreticians. Read more...

The weekend headlines bring no respite from the bad news. Two of the absolute worst suggestions are now in the public domain, the first courtesy of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and the second from our old friend John Edwards.

Dumb Idea #1. Senate Democrats are proposing that an independent counsel (i.e., special prosecutor) be appointed to investigate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s decision to fire eight U.S. attorneys back in December. As the song goes, “When will they ever learn?” Read more...

This is a crucial moment in world history; wars are raging, countries are forming and terrorists are plotting. The opportunity to make positive change and bring about good in the world is right at our fingertips. But in order to make a lasting impact, we as a global community need to be united. This is why I was so disappointed in Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican for releasing a document stating that Roman Catholicism is the only true path to salvation. The document also said that other Christian and Orthodox communities are either defective or not true churches. These actions by the Catholic Church are a big blow to the movement for peace and unity amongst religions and nations. Read more...

This is why people hate Washington.

Congress is going to vote to hold members of the White House in contempt for refusing to allow staff to testify over the firings of some U.S. attorneys.

Can we vote to hold Washington in contempt for refusing to deal with issues that really matter, like entitlement reform, education, crime, healthcare and war?  Read more...

First of all, you've gotta give Hillary's advisers some credit here. Whether it's fair or not, the female candidate has to show the world she can stand her ground with all the nasty guys, foreign and domestic.

So at the same time, she is duking it out with ...

* The aggressive Pentagon policy chief, Eric Edelman, who called her demands to know of troop withdrawal planning a boost for "enemy propaganda." Clearly she's winning that fight. The defense secretary himself has been falling over himself to smooth things over, sending Clinton a letter that is apologetic almost to the point of groveling. Read more...

10. Who will be commissioned to write Dick Cheney’s presidential memoirs, Three Hours That Changed America?

9. America speaks: The city council of West Hollywood, Calif., passed a resolution urging impeachment of President Bush. Can Cambridge, Mass., and the Upper East Side of Manhattan be far behind?

8. If, as reported by The Washington Post, labor unions hired the homeless to walk their picket lines, is that a case of outsourcing American jobs to foreigners? I hope at least the picketers were given a “living wage,” not to mention health insurance and paid maternity leave.  Read more...

J. Edgar Hoover is grinning in his grave.

The FBI’s adopted a plan to recruit 15,000 covert informants in the United States to help keep America safe. Their job? Reporting to the FBI anybody “suspicious” — in other words, anybody with a different accent, skin color, lifestyle, hairstyle, religion or sexual orientation. Read more...

Politics. Don’t we all just love it?

But, you know, I’m not so crazy about what’s coming out of the Bush administration, Sara Taylor, Karl Rove and the gang.

I remember when James Carville was leaving the West Wing of the White House in early 1993, after Bill Clinton’s inauguration, and one of the reporters asked him what he would be doing in the administration. “I don’t DO government,” he yelled back at the reporter.

Well, I am not sure a lot these Bush White House aides “do government” very well either. They seem to be much more interested in political campaigns than policy. Read more...

I was watching the news the other day, and I saw an advertisement put up by the Democrats thanking the Democrats for all their success in the first seven months of their majority.

Talk about chutzpah.

Talk about smart.

My mom always told me that if you don’t believe good things about yourself, nobody else will. Well, it is time for the Republicans to start believing that their philosophy has led to some real progress for the American people. If we don’t start believing it, nobody else will.  Read more...