On the Today Show, cohost Meredith Vieira talked to Obama, and she asked, “What’s the key question, Senator Obama, you want answered today? Number one question you’re going to ask General Petraeus.” OBAMA: Well, I think the most important issue is still the one that was asked in September, which is: How has this war […]

Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park; he has this little passage: “A hundred years ago, we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.” A hundred years. He’s right. We didn’t have those things, and I mention this because here we are in a so-called recession or on the verge of a so-called recession. We have the most […]

Hillary Clinton brushed aside any notion of bowing out yesterday during a fund-raiser in Albuquerque. ‘I’m going to campaign hard in all the remaining states,’ she said. She flew in and flew out of New Mexico for the fundraiser. ‘I want to tell you the campaign’s going well.’ She said anybody who believes that she […]

Candidates and pundits keep talking about “bringing the country together.” Yes: According to an AP story, this has left Americans wondering “if divisiveness will again prevail or if — just maybe — a window is open for a more civil, constructive era” in politics. Well, for you “wondering” Americans, I have the answer for you: […]

Did you see the story: “President Bush, addressing an embarrassing flap that has strained US-China relations, told Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday that the shipment of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan was a mistake.” Hell’s bells, that’s no mistake. The Chinese are out there rattling sabers; they’re firing missiles up; they’re shooting things out […]