After his campaign team insisted Mitt would never say he had a special understanding of our relationship with Anglo-Saxons that the Kenyan Socialist could never get, Mitt Romney continued his foreign policy image building trip to England by first hinting that the Brits weren’t as good at pulling off an

After his campaign team insisted Mitt would never say he had a special understanding of our relationship with Anglo-Saxons that the Kenyan Socialist could never get, Mitt Romney continued his foreign policy image building trip to England by first hinting that the Brits weren’t as good at pulling off an Olympics as he was. He then questioned whether the Brits had sufficient pride in their Olympics to show up.

That set off the British media, who are now letting Mitt know how much they appreciate being insulted by a rich America and making Mitt the joke of London.

If there were a suspected al Qaeda operation in Mexico, and the US Government knew that arms dealers in US border states were selling massive quantities of arms for delivery to that al Qaeda operation, what do you think the US government would do to those arms dealers?

How did it come to be that this is becoming America’s defining characteristic? A malevolent, pathologically insane operator identifies a group of people as the “enemy” or a threat to the operator’s understanding of American liberty/values.  It begins stockpiling an arsenal of lethal weapons.  The capabilities of those weapons and

NPR is reporting this morning that a man armed with a rifle and hand gun(s) entered a theater complex in a shopping mall in Aurora, Colorado. As audiences were watching the premiere of the new Batman movie, the man threw what may have been a tear-gas explosive inside one of the theaters. He then opened fire with the rifle, and at least one, possibly two handguns. Initial police reports are that he killed 14 people and wounded about 50 others, some critically.

NPR is reporting this morning that a man armed with a rifle (perhaps also a shotgun) and at least 2 hand guns entered a theater complex in a shopping mall in Aurora, Colorado.  As audiences were watching the premiere of the new Batman movie, the man threw what may have

The New York Times delivered an iceberg size wake up call to Mr. Obama and the President’s stunningly inept re-election team. The most recent Times/CBS poll shows Mr. Romney slightly ahead of Mr. Obama nationally, 47 to 46 percent. Those results are worse than the same poll found weeks ago, before the campaign team began hammering on Mitt Romney’s business dealings, his tax avoidance and lack of character.

What the poll is telling us is not just that Mr. Obama is losing, but the American people are coming to the conclusion he does not deserve reelection, regardless of the deeply flawed character of his opponent.

The New York Times delivered an iceberg size wake up call to Mr. Obama and the President’s stunningly inept re-election team.  The most recent Times/CBS poll shows Mr. Romney slightly ahead of Mr. Obama nationally, 47 to 46 percent.  Those results are worse than the same poll found weeks ago,

I think this is the conservatives’ latest and most virulent effort at “extreme vetting,” in which the candidate either survives the right’s gauntlet with a disclosure that turns out to be a non-event (and thus potentially harmful to Democrats for hinting it would be otherwise), or — and this may be the preferred outcome — he’s further damaged and wiped out quickly, before the convention. Doing this now, before the convention, would allow the conservatives to replace Romney safely and victoriously with whatever “first team” conservatives the GOP claimed they had that did not run in the primaries.

I have been wondering why the calls for Mr. Romney’s tax returns have become so numerous and insistent, especially from those on the right, who usually don’t give a fig about disclosure in every other case. The accepted media frame is that there is a deeply respected American tradition that