Grasping Reality with Both Hands

My train pulled up. I couldn’t leave. People threw money down. Another train pulled up, more people stopped to listen. A suited young Indian guy by me went and donated money. She finished the second piece, and said ‘thanks’ and launched straight

n a press release this morning, the US Department of Defense announced casualty number 3,242 in the Iraqi War: Staff Sergeant Marc Golczynski, who was killed by enemy fire in Al Anbar province on Tuesday, March 27th. For our family, this wasn't just a

plenty of Kansas and Nebraska populists felt the same way. They were convinced that the "fusion" of 1896 with the Democrats was not just the end of their movement, but the first step towards the ultimate betrayal of its ideals. I'm no major fan of "progre

Of all the reasons to be outraged at Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department, it’s typical that it was the firing of a handful of U.S. attorneys that finally motivated Congress to perform its proper oversight function. The charge is that Gonzalez and Chief

The prosecutors selected for discharge come from "battleground states" which will be key to the 2008 presidential election: New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Washington and Arkansas. This is no coincidence. Shortly after the 2006 Congressional electi

ou remember Solengo, right? It's the hedge fund that's being started by a team of traders from Amaranth, including the best known energy trader in the world, Brian Hunter. Their reason for why we should do this sort of thing this request was quite extr

The Drudge controversy aside, I found Allen's piece "Rookie Mistakes Plague Obama" shallow and unconvincing. And I found it, literally, not via Drudge's prominent link (which used the same headline), but in an e-mail from the Republican National Committee

SCHUMER: Do you still think David Iglesias deserved to be fired? SAMPSON: Senator, looking back on all of this, I wish that we could do it over again. SCHUMER: So you’re saying you think he shouldn’t have been fired? SAMPSON: Senator, I don

It will take a whole new cadre of Republicans to turn the party into something that deserves to be trusted with a meaningful share of American power. Those people don’t really exist yet. Put it this way: to the extent that they exist now, the “real Re