Opinion

Angry voters

USATODAY.com - Thu May 15, 12:20 AM ET

Republicans were already on red alert after they lost "safe" GOP congressional seats to Democrats in Illinois in March and Louisiana earlier this month. But Tuesday's win by Democrat Travis Childers in a solidly Republican district in north Mississippi was devastating. The party spent $1.3 million, flew in Vice President Cheney and still lost by eight points.

  • A Sublime Moment For Cable TV--Chris Matthews interviewing Kevin James On Appeasement. HuffingtonPost.com - Thu May 15, 9:56 PM ET

    Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare appeasement, meaning Nazis and Neville Chamberlain in 1938-39--that exhausted neo-con trope--to our current situation vis-à-vis Iran and etc. The exchange was pegged to Bush's political exploitation of Israel's 60th anniversary.

  • California Decision Makes Same-Sex Marriage a 2008 Issue The Nation - Thu May 15, 6:45 PM ET

    The Nation -- Same-sex marriage just made a major comeback as a campaign issue.

  • Winter Soldiers, Part II The Nation - Thu May 15, 5:35 PM ET

    The Nation -- Over the past two months since this year's Winter Soldier event, a parade of luminaries has gone before Congress to testify about the Iraq War: distinguished generals, cabinet secretaries and various think-tank dignitaries. One group, however, has been conspicuously absent from the conversation: soldiers.

  • If Clinton Wants VP, Obama Can't Stop Her RealClearPolitics.com - Thu May 15, 9:30 AM ET

    Does Hillary Clinton want to be the Democrats vice presidential candidate? Probably. Could she get on the ticket by dropping out before the last states vote on June 3rd? Definitely not. Does Barack Obama want her on the ticket? Absolutely not. Can he stop her if she wants it? Probably not. Why not? Super delegates are why not.

  • Clinton's Biggest Mistake RealClearPolitics.com - Thu May 15, 5:30 PM ET

    Coming off her landslide win in West Virginia on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton plods on to the end of the primary season on June 3. But her campaign has already been declared dead by many pundits, and the post mortems on why her campaign failed have already begun.

  • MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL ISN'T WORTHY OF THE MAN Georgie Anne Geyer - Thu May 15, 7:57 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s.

  • DEMOCRATS' HYBRID PICKUP TRUCKS Ann Coulter - Wed May 14, 7:57 PM ET

    On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent.

  • Editorial Roundup AP - Wed May 14, 1:45 PM ET

    Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

  • Gloomy Republicans The Weekly Standard - Wed May 14, 9:48 AM ET

    Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 34 - 5/19/2008 - First, the good news. Conservatives won a sweeping victory in an enormously important election the week before last.

  • The Big, Bad, Right-Wing Wolf Brent Bozell III - Wed May 14, 3:00 AM ET

    Creators Syndicate - In the last presidential election, leftist special interest groups and socialist billionaires like George Soros waged war with an unprecedented tsunami of negative TV attacks on the Republican incumbent, suggesting he was a draft dodger that knowingly lied us into war.

  • Beyonce's New Brand of Pedophilia Chic Michelle Malkin - Wed May 14, 3:00 AM ET

    Creators Syndicate - If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus — wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet — in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain't seen nothing yet.

  • Is Hitler Funny? Susan Estrich - Wed May 14, 3:00 AM ET

    Creators Syndicate - When I got to one of my offices yesterday (I won't say which, lest you hold it against them, which I certainly don't), people were crowded around the computer, watching the latest video on YouTube. And laughing.

  • JOHN MCCAIN'S ASSAULT ON REASON Maggie Gallagher - Tue May 13, 7:57 PM ET

    Last week, Al Gore made headlines when he blamed the Burmese cyclone on (what else?) global warming.

  • THE SILVER LINING OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Ted Rall - Tue May 13, 7:57 PM ET

    Student Loans Crunch Starves Greedy Colleges

  • Race Cards and Speech Codes Pat Buchanan - Tue May 13, 3:00 AM ET

    Creators Syndicate - "Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."

  • LESSONS FROM THE SOUTH SIDE Georgie Anne Geyer - Mon May 12, 7:57 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- When I grew up, a long time ago, I wanted desperately to be a foreign correspondent. Names like Marrakech, Kashgar, Istanbul, Bali and Timbuktu rang like strange church bells in my ears, calling me forth to the worship of discovery. Foreign: That was what I was after. I was besotted with the exotic!

  • Jeremiah Wright's 'Trumpet' The Weekly Standard - Mon May 12, 10:41 AM ET

    Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 34 - 5/19/2008 - To the question of the moment--What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?--I answer, Obama knew everything, and he's known it for ages.

  • IT REMAINS TO BE AARRGGH! James Kilpatrick - Sun May 11, 8:01 PM ET

    Everyone who writes for a living or reads for pleasure has a pet peeve. My first city editor had a thing about "not only." He insisted that "not only" always had to be followed by "but also." Thousands of otherwise rational folks will never end a sentence with a preposition. I myself get cranky over "replica."

  • 1988 CAMPAIGN HAS LITTLE TO TELL US ABOUT CAMPAIGN TODAY David Shribman - Sat May 10, 7:57 PM ET

    Some people think they have seen this campaign movie before.

  • Hillary Should Stay in Because She Can HuffingtonPost.com - Fri May 16, 12:40 AM ET

    The Democratic Party is starting to wonder if Hillary Clinton is in it to win it, or doin it to ruin it.

Most Popular Opinion

  • Why pump prices need to stay high The Christian Science Monitor - Mon May 12, 4:00 AM ET

    Driving less? More than two-thirds of car owners already are. It's a natural reflex to $50-$70 tank fill-ups. But US drivers may also know it's time to pay a price to curb global warming. That may be one reason they reject the campaign stunt of urging a holiday for the federal gas tax.

  • If Clinton Wants VP, Obama Can't Stop Her RealClearPolitics.com - Thu May 15, 9:30 AM ET

    Does Hillary Clinton want to be the Democrats vice presidential candidate? Probably. Could she get on the ticket by dropping out before the last states vote on June 3rd? Definitely not. Does Barack Obama want her on the ticket? Absolutely not. Can he stop her if she wants it? Probably not. Why not? Super delegates are why not.

  • Memo to candidates and my liberal pals: Southerners aren't stupid The Christian Science Monitor - Thu May 15, 4:00 AM ET

    Baton Rouge, La. - Moving to Baton Rouge from Washington terrified me. After all, it's the South, and not a charming part of the South, either. People drive pickup trucks outfitted with gun racks, strip malls are ubiquitous, and giant crosses dot the interstate.

  • THE SILVER LINING OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Ted Rall - Tue May 13, 7:57 PM ET

    Student Loans Crunch Starves Greedy Colleges

  • The Disappearing Upper Class The Nation - Thu May 15, 3:40 PM ET

    The Nation -- Edwards, it is hoped, will bring the "working class" vote to Obama.