Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who should know better, was caught by an open mic yesterday  making demonstrably false statements — Sarah Palin is “no genius,” for example. Rendell also said that Arizona Governor and Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Janet Napolitano is perfect for the job because she has no family, “no life”...

Sarah Palin’s supporters have wasted no time in setting up an exclamation mark-filled website encouraging the Alaska governor to run for president in 2012: Thank you for visiting the official Sarah Palin For President 2012 website! This site was created after the 2008 election and has quickly become the most visited Sarah Palin website. We have grown to...

Barack Obama went to the White House to talk with President Bush today. The historic meeting: [youtube QmgAOOQBVCU] MSNBC’s less interesting...

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...