Maybe not as red as Drudge believes. A reader writes: And is Putin a red? Hmmm. Perhaps Putin is really a Neocon. The way the words "socialist," "communist" and "Nazi" are thrown around today (interchangeably at that!) show what an utterly debased...

This is pretty staggering news: Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader ...

8.34 pm. And now a touch of populism: It’s how everyone in this Congress gets affordable insurance.

Charlie Cook and others are predicting a sea-change in public mood, with support for the GOP rising because of deficits. This strikes me as an amazing thing. It makes Charlie Brown, the football and Lucy look like the model of intelligent interaction...

by Patrick Appel I meant to mark the news yesterday but got distracted by other issues, so late last night I searched through the thousand or so blogs I read to see if I could find anyone making a substantive point about the first day of marriage eq...

by Patrick Appel Jim Burroway wonders if Rick Warren will speak up again: has just learned that the Rwandan Parliament is scheduled to take up consideration of a change to Rwanda’s penal code which would criminalize homosexuality with a punishment...

by Chris Bodenner The school rebuts several of the details from the local paper. It appears the father is playing up the religious persecution angle, just as the school seemed to have overreacted to the drawing itself - interpreting it as a cry for help.

Today on the Dish we saw DC formally embrace marriage equality, marijuana appeared to surpass tobacco use among the youth, Hizballah rebranded itself, and things looked grim for Americans detained in Iran. Regarding news that detainees are headed to...

by Chris Bodenner Above is an appalling act of exploitation. Sean Hannity assembles a group of 9/11 victims - understandably roiled by grief and frustration - and frames the segment around the "betrayal" of Obama putting terrorist suspects on trial in...

by Chris Bodenner A reader from Illinois responds to Jennifer Rubin's opposition to the detainee transfer to Thomson, IL: We'd love to have those Gitmo prisoners here. And we'd love to have them break out. They would last maybe two days in that part...