John McCain continues to make a big point about his accepting public funding for the general election and, in the last debate, he attacked Barack Obama for opting out.

All this would be very praiseworthy, if it were true.

But I was reminded of how egregiously the McCain...

Following McCain's statement last week that Obama was not an Arab, "He's a good family man." I wrote a post about it and got the following email which I thought I would share.

Mr. Fleetwood-

I wanted to...

In no way am I suggesting that John McCain is qualified to be president of the United States. By temperament and policy, he is clearly not able to lead us in foreign affairs or domestic policy. He is mired in the cold war policies of the past. His aggressiveness is...

The bloodbath begins.

Troubled Italian airline Alitalia may start grounding flights today, amid growing concerns about the impact of fuel prices.

The possible collapse of Alitalia has come after thousands were left stranded by the collapse of XL Leisure Group and experts have warned that other airlines face failure because...

Hundreds have lost their lives and nearly a million people are without shelter, medical supplies, or food in the aftermath of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike (which is ravaging Cuba at this moment with a storm surge as high as a five story apartment building and winds up to 150 mph,...

1. Why haven't any citizens or government officials from the autonomous Province of South Ossetia been interviewed by the MSM?

2. Who started this war? Which army picked up its guns and tanks last Thursday and blasted a path through the Caucasus Mountains to the city of Tskhinvali, killing as...

In classic "Wag The Dog" scenario there is a neat little war brewing between American and Russian proxies, and real Russian troops, in the Caucacus Mountains on the Russian border.

It couldn't come at a better time for the Republicans.

McCain gets to act and talk tough against the...

The polls are going back and forth, but the political pros ---- and the betting odds -- are convinced that Obama is going to win.

McCain is getting really desperate. He must not think he is going to win, if things stay as they are.

It is way too...

The tabloids are full of stories trumpeting Christie's "Slam Dunk" victory over Horndog husband Peter Cook.

But who is thinking about the welfare of Jack, 13, and Sailor, 10?

The eventual price paid by these young children --- because of Brinkley's anger and desire for revenge --- is going to...

My former editor Clay Felker invented modern magazine journalism when he started New York magazine in the 1960's.

He was the best.

A former sportswriter, he often told me that the best stories, the only ones people wanted to read, had to have a strong personality and conflict. And...

Think about it.

McCain is running 15% behind in Newsweek's latest poll. Obama is leading -- on Iraq, the Economy, Health Care, Energy and just about every other category except Terrorism.

McCain's only hope is to put violent chaos back, front and center.

Black's remarks --- on why...

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Adams

This is not going to be an easy campaign for Obama.

His lead in today's polls means nothing --- could be a dead cat bounce after winning the delegates needed...

40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.

As a young student at Columbia University off for the summer, I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week.

The spring of...

Clinton Confronts Sexism On the Trail and Vows to Battle On --- Washington Post

Millions of women all over the country feel that Hillary has not gotten a fair deal from the media and are furious at the way she has been treated. They point to specific examples in this...

Sexism is alive and well in America.

One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting for a black man.

The New York Times had a long piece about a future woman president today, Kate...

A CBS/NY Times poll finds that when asked who is "tough enough to make hard choices?" 70% said Clinton, 71% said McCain and 58% said Obama.

The pollster writes:

"Some perceptions of Obama's qualities have shifted in the last few weeks, and he has lost his edge over...

April 30, 1968

With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.

The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of...

I opened my morning New York Times and Obama's picture dominated the front page. The headline read, "An Angry Obama Renounces Ties To His Ex-Pastor"

Then it hit me.

This was the brilliant plan.

An angry, forceful Obama was on the front page of every newspaper in the world,...

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Obama and the media, particularly those who welcome his new low impact politics, could (and should) be applauding Rev. Wright's very public testing of one of the most celebrated and quintessentially American rights of this great country of ours: the freedom of...

Interesting story in the Detroit News this week by political analyst Susan J. Demas discussing how Clinton might quietly pick up 50 delagates votes in Michigan.

"While all eyes were locked on Pennsylvania for the last six weeks, Clinton was quietly amassing delegates in the Wolverine State....