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Some skepticism about the Atta revelations

The New York Times ran what appeared to be a blockbuster story today about the 9/11 terrorists and intelligence about an al Queda cell in the U.S. as far back as 2000. There are, however, a few reasons for skepticism. More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence […]

A pox on both houses, when only one is necessary

Roll Call Executive Editor and Fox News contributor Morton Kondracke wrote a half-good column this week, asking whether moderates will ever be able to exert influence in the Republican Party again. Kondracke, who is reliably right-of-center, didn’t sound optimistic about the GOP’s future. In the Republican Party, [moderates should rise up and assert themselves] by […]

Cindy Sheehan’s unanswered questions

As of right this minute, Cindy Sheehan, who’s 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Baghdad, is still in Crawford, three miles up the road from the president’s ranch. As you’ve probably heard, she has a few questions for Bush. President Bush draws antiwar protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of […]

The Bubble Party

Ron Brownstein had an excellent column today on the Republicans’ powerful position and the inherent risks therein. As Brownstein put it, Republicans appear, at times, to “confuse consensus in their coalition with consensus in the country.” Steering solely by the preferences of Republicans can lead the party toward policies far less popular outside their coalition […]

Paul Hackett may be the first of many

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee admits that it’s thinking slightly outside the box when it comes to recruiting Dem congressional candidates for 2006. It’s been working well — FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley is running in Minnesota’s 2nd CD, Sheriff Brad Ellsworth is poised to run well in Indiana’s 8th CD, and in North Carolina, the […]

StemPAC pushes progress in stem-cell debate

There are plenty of voices struggling to be heard as part of the ongoing debate over stem-cell research, but there’s a great group of people have put together a new 527 organization, with the intention of making this issue a central one in the next couple of campaign cycles. There’s a new kid on the […]

Monday’s political round-up

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Just a week after ruling out a Senate campaign, Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro (R) has apparently decided to take on Sen. Hillary Clinton next year. According to the New York […]

The inevitable result of the Ten Commandments cases

The Supreme Court has said local governments kinda sorta can promote the Ten Commandments on public property, so long as the display features some diversity with other symbols and/or documents. For those who want government to intervene in religious matters, the high court’s guidance is ambiguous, but helpful enough to move forward with plans to […]

Kerry was right about Tora Bora

Just two weeks before the presidential election, and nearly three years after the debacle itself, the president addressed the failure to capture Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001. “Now my opponent [John Kerry] is throwing out the wild claim that he knows where bin Laden was in the fall […]