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...

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...

Minnesota’s Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty, was runner-up (or close to it) in McCain’s VP search. I was certain that McCain would select him as his running mate (shows what I know — McCain really outsmarted all of us on that one).  Pawlenty is young, well spoken, and popular in a Democratic state. Had he been picked, McCain today...

First, Lawrence Eagleburger said that “of course” Sarah Palin wasn’t ready to be president and would never be a “genius” in the job: After twenty-four hours in GOP reeducation camp with Tucker Bounds and the rest of the Omega House guidance counselors, Larry resurfaced on Fox to regurgitate the party line, adequately: ...

I’ve tried to put MSNBC’s election night widget on the sidebar to your right. It doesn’t really fit, so I’m putting it here. Check this post in your obsessive quest for the latest election results on November...

As a general rule, only cranks and ignoramuses respond to disagreements by whining that “the media” or other citizens are violating the crank’s right to free speech under the First Amendment. There are of course exceptions to every rule, but this isn’t one of them: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday...