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Before Sarah Palin stepped on the story, the talk of the Beltway was Salongate at the Washington Post. The venerable newspaper hatched a scheme whereby it would hold a series of "salons" at the home of the publisher, Katharine Weymouth, in order to sell lobbyists and corporations access to Obama administration officials and the Post reporters and editors who cover them.
There's an old joke about a fantastic three-legged pig and a farmer. It comes in many versions. In some tellings, the pig saves the farmer's life. In another, it can talk. And the punch line always comes after a visitor asks the farmer, "So how come he only has three legs?"
Here is the one immutable fact of Barack Obama's foreign policy agenda as it relates to Iran: It's over. The rule book he came in with is as irrelevant as a tourist guide to the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Do it, President Obama, please. Take the side of democracy.
Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet.
For decades, America's liberal establishment has been saying that what we need more than anything is a frank conversation about race. Well, here's another chance.
Forget about where you come down on "torture" or "enhanced interrogations." The simple fact is that, as a political matter, the drive for a "truth commission" -- never mind a war crimes tribunal -- is dead as long as Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House.
Harry Truman famously said of D.C.: " You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." It turns out that Truman was wrong, at least if you go by the experts.
One of the most important events of our lifetimes may have just transpired. A federal agency has decided that it has the power to regulate everything, including the air you breathe.
Well, that was simple. Shoot the pirates, problem solved.