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In a speech he delivered on Sunday to the Mainstream Republicans of Washington, a group of moderate Republicans, former Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay indicated that his removal may have…

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Arguably the two best-known Republican governors, California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger and Connecticut’s Jodi Rell, offer fighting words against the Bush administration’s policies on global warming. In an op-ed piece in the…

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A key role in the GOP effort to politicize the Department of Justice has been played by five “Christian” law schools – each with a long tradition of highly partisan…

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Reports out of Iraq catalogue a dramatic continued collapse of security conditions even after Bush administration’s escalation plan has been put in place. Leading Republicans have given the plan through…

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The White House promises to come up with a candidate to run the World Bank quickly. The top two choices, say my generally well-informed sources, are Robert Zoellick and Tony…

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One week ago, following his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Alberto Gonzales told friends that he had “weathered” the scandal and expected to stay on. That seems laughable at…

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Under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was transformed from an organization that defended the voting rights of minorities into a tool in a Republican Party…

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Is this coincidence? Percentage of Americans who have a favorable view of George W. Bush: 24 percent. Percentage of Americans who feel that America is “on the right track”: 25…

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So now that the Republican-oriented media are busy educating us to the fact that Ron Paul is an alien from outer space tin-hatted loon, (note: this is the other Scott…

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On September 18, 1998, Paul Wolfowitz appeared before the House National Security Committee and delivered an impassioned plea for the use of American arms to topple the government of Saddam…

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Now that the Beltway punditry slowly comes to recognize the stupidity of their assessments of Iraq, one of the absurd lines they trot out with regularity is that they were…

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A confession: I haven’t had the time or patience to wade my way through the new immigration legislation, but I surely am appreciating all the hysteria on Fox News, CNN’s…

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After five years of internment at the U.S. concentration camp in Guantánamo, Australian David Hicks has returned home to Adelaide, Australia today. His flight had to be rerouted over Mexico…

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In the end, the legacy of the Bush era will be this: that no act of nobility or decency goes unpunished if it casts the leader in a bad light,…

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Back in the era of the titans, the bar knew some great figures – none greater than Elihu Root – secretary of state, secretary of war, senator from New York,…

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Listening to the GOP presidential debate on a drive across California on Tuesday night, I was stopped cold more than once by Rep. Ron Paul. My God, I thought, compared…

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Writing in the (London) Sunday Times Sarah Baxter says the departure in disgrace of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank marks the “end of an ideological era” in Washington. I’m…

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London’s Sunday Telegraph reports that incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose arrival at No. 10 Downing Street is now just one month off, has decided to accelerate the pace of…

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Lt. Justin Henderson, one of Matthew Diaz’s detailed defense counsel, takes issue with some of the arguments made about his case here, including the suggestion that Diaz was “targeted” and…

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In an exclusive interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, former President Jimmy Carter described the Bush administration’s conduct of foreign policy in terms of a catastrophe: “I think as far as…

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Responding to pressure from the press for answers to the accusation that President Bush was personally responsible for the late night visit by Gonzales and Card to Attorney General Ashcroft’s…

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The Bush Administration, entering into its last, lame-duck year, has the usual difficulties finding qualified help. Add to that public approval levels as low as have ever been seen. And…

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Yes, when was the last time you heard a report out of the Horn of Africa that was anything other than “tragic”? I recently sat through a presentation by a…

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Tom Hamburger at the Los Angeles Times does more yeoman work looking into the cashiering of Albuquerque U.S. Attorney David Iglesias. The former role model for “A Few Good Men,”…

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The Republican Presidential debate conducted in South Carolina on Tuesday night accomplished what a presidential debate really should: it gave us a deep peek into the soul of the current…

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The Washington Post reports this morning on a private meeting that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales conducted on Wednesday with U.S. attorneys from around the country in San Antonio. More than…

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A jury has given Lieutenant Commander Matthew Diaz a sentence of 6 months for giving a list of Guantánamo detainees to a New York law firm, reports the Associated Press.…

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Congressmen Artur Davis of Alabama and Adam Schiff of California, two former federal prosecutors with ten years experience, have announced that they will call for a vote of “no confidence”…

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