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Red Lines in the Sand

There are three red lines when it comes to Iran's nuclear program. The first is the moment when Iran tunnels so deeply underground that Israeli bombs will be incapable of doing real damage. The second is when the tunneling goes even deeper and the...

Brain-Dead GOP

On Saturday night, at precisely 9:19 and 30 seconds, my iPhone, my iPad, my computer and, for all I know, my toaster were informed that Herman Cain had endorsed Newt Gingrich. The ping-ping of the devices suggested that something momentous had ...

Product of a Restless Mind

Where is the Democratic Gingrich?

I do not mean that Newt Gingrich -- the one who is a virtual Michelin Man of grandiosity, pneumatically overstuffed with self-references and appeals to the political gutter. I do not mean the man whose ...

The Mother's Milk of Politics

Sheldon Adelson is supposedly a bad man. The gambling mogul gave $5 million to a Newt Gingrich-loving super PAC and this enabled Gingrich to maul Mitt Romney -- a touch of opinion here -- who had it coming anyway. Adelson is a good friend of ...

The Reggie in the GOP race

Mitt Romney is starting to get on my nerves. He reminds me of Reggie, the rich, handsome, athletic and effortlessly superficial character in the "Archie" comics. He does almost everything well and he looks like a million bucks (leveraged for much ...

Isolationism, Redux

The blogger Andrew Sullivan, typing faster than he could think, endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican presidential nomination. (He took it back, but we'll get to that later.) Sullivan is Britain-born, Oxford-taught and, like so many from that ...