In December 1992, as Bill Clinton was assembling his cabinet, he took a moment to respond to feminist complaints about a supposed lack of high-level female appointments: In an unusually candid discussion yesterday, Clinton said he was particularly unhappy that two of his appointees – Laura D’Andrea Tyson as chairwoman of the Council of Economic...

Unlike a lot of Democrats, I like Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson is a terrific writer and is simply not wrong about the existence of serious and ongoing threats from the Arab and Islamic world toward the US, Israel, Europe, and others. But come on — settle on a message already. On the one hand, Islamist freaks are euphoric that Barack Obama...

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news...

It’s a little late for electoral predictions, sure.  I was too superstitious to post this before the election.  On October 30th, just like we do every four years, my brother and I bet on the outcome of the presidential election.  The competition is for most states correctly called, not closest to the actual electoral result.  This year the bet was was...

When a judge looks at an opposing lawyer and goes to town on him, it’s best to remain silent.  Any lawyer who has ever been in a courtroom has been on both sides of that kind of thing. It’s no fun when it happens to you, but golly it’s satisfying to watch it happen to someone else. That’s kind of what’s going on with Republicans...